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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychiatry | Neuropsychiatry is a branch of medicine that deals with psychiatry as it relates to neurology, in an effort to understand and attribute behavior to the interaction of neurobiology and social psychology factors. Within neuropsychiatry, the mind is considered "as an emergent property of the brain", whereas other behavior... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation%20plane | In mathematics, a translation plane is a projective plane which admits a certain group of symmetries (described below). Along with the Hughes planes and the Figueroa planes, translation planes are among the most well-studied of the known non-Desarguesian planes, and the vast majority of known non-Desarguesian planes ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20wave | In condensed matter physics, a spin wave is a propagating disturbance in the ordering of a magnetic material. These low-lying collective excitations occur in magnetic lattices with continuous symmetry. From the equivalent quasiparticle point of view, spin waves are known as magnons, which are bosonic modes of the spin ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20singularity | In mathematics, more particularly in the field of algebraic geometry, a scheme has rational singularities, if it is normal, of finite type over a field of characteristic zero, and there exists a proper birational map
from a regular scheme such that the higher direct images of applied to are trivial. That is, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Neander | Michael Neander (originally Neumann) (April 3, 1529 – October 23, 1581) was a German teacher, mathematician, medical academic, and astronomer.
He was born in Joachimsthal, Bohemia, and was educated at the University of Wittenberg, receiving his B.A. in 1549 and M.A. in 1550.
From 1551 until 1561 he taught mathematics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20wave%20equation | In physics, the acoustic wave equation is a second-order partial differential equation that governs the propagation of acoustic waves through a material medium resp. a standing wavefield. The equation describes the evolution of acoustic pressure or particle velocity as a function of position and time . A simplified... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunt%E2%80%93V%C3%A4is%C3%A4l%C3%A4%20frequency | In atmospheric dynamics, oceanography, asteroseismology and geophysics, the Brunt–Väisälä frequency, or buoyancy frequency, is a measure of the stability of a fluid to vertical displacements such as those caused by convection. More precisely it is the frequency at which a vertically displaced parcel will oscillate with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOx | {{DISPLAYTITLE:NOx}}
In atmospheric chemistry, is shorthand for nitric oxide () and nitrogen dioxide (), the nitrogen oxides that are most relevant for air pollution. These gases contribute to the formation of smog and acid rain, as well as affecting tropospheric ozone.
gases are usually produced from the reaction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Welsh%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Matthew David Welsh is a computer scientist and software engineer and is currently the CEO and co-founder of Fixie.ai, which he started after stints at Google, xnor.ai, and Apple. He was the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and author of several books about the Linux operating system, se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse%20file | In computer science, a sparse file is a type of computer file that attempts to use file system space more efficiently when the file itself is partially empty. This is achieved by writing brief information (metadata) representing the empty blocks to the data storage media instead of the actual "empty" space which makes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20Pi%20Sigma | Sigma Pi Sigma (), founded at Davidson College on December 11, 1921, is the oldest and only American honor society for physics and astronomy. It is an organization within the Society of Physics Students and the American Institute of Physics and a member of the Association of College Honor Societies. The society's stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANU%20Research%20School%20of%20Physics | The Research School of Physics (RSPhys) was established with the creation of the Australian National University (ANU) in 1947. Located at the ANU's main campus in Canberra, the school is one of the four founding research schools in the ANU's Institute of Advanced Studies.
As part of the Institute of Advanced Studies i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujoy%20K.%20Guha | Sujoy Kumar Guha is an Indian biomedical engineer. He was born in Patna, India, 20 June 1940. He did his undergraduate degree (B.Tech.) in electrical engineering from IIT Kharagpur, followed by a master's degree in electrical engineering at IIT, and another master's degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Pepper%20%28intelligence%20official%29 | Sir David Edwin Pepper KCMG (born 8 February 1948) is a British civil servant who was the director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British signals intelligence agency, from 2003 to 2008.
Career
Pepper was educated at Chigwell School and gained a doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Yevreinov | Ivan Mikhaylovich Yevreinov (; 1694 – 3 February O.S. 1724) was a Russian geodesist and explorer.
Ivan Yevreinov was born in Poland, then brought to Russia and baptized into Orthodox Christianity.
Ivan Yevreinov was first a student at the Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation (from 1714) and then in a geodesic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20mechanical%20engineering%20articles | This is an alphabetical list of articles pertaining specifically to mechanical engineering. For a broad overview of engineering, please see List of engineering topics. For biographies please see List of engineers.
A
Acceleration –
Accuracy and precision –
Actual mechanical advantage –
Aerodynamics –
Agitator (device) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitand | In chemistry, a cavitand is a container-shaped molecule. The cavity of the cavitand allows it to engage in host–guest chemistry with guest molecules of a complementary shape and size. The original definition proposed by Cram includes many classes of molecules: cyclodextrins, calixarenes, pillararenes and cucurbituril... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahen%20Centre%20for%20Information%20Technology | The Bahen Centre for Information Technology is a building at the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. It is primarily used by the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Mathematics.
The large 8-floor building contains 50 laboratories (including t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order%20abstract%20syntax | In computer science, higher-order abstract syntax (abbreviated HOAS) is a technique for the representation of abstract syntax trees for languages with variable binders.
Relation to first-order abstract syntax
An abstract syntax is abstract because it is represented by mathematical objects that have certain structure ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxon | In physics, a fluxon is a quantum of electromagnetic flux. The term may have any of several related meanings.
Superconductivity
In the context of superconductivity, in type II superconductors fluxons (also known as Abrikosov vortices) can form when the applied field lies between and . The fluxon is a small whisker o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Ypsilantis | Thomas John Ypsilantis (; June 24, 1928 – August 16, 2000) was an American physicist of Greek descent. Ypsilantis was known for the co-discovery of the antiproton in 1955, along with Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segrè, and Clyde Wiegand. Following this work, he moved to CERN to develop Cherenkov radiation detectors for use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%20Wiegand | Clyde Wiegand (May 23, 1915, Long Beach, Washington – July 5, 1996) was an American physicist.
Wiegand received his undergraduate degree from Willamette University in 1940. He began his graduate work in physics in 1941 at UC Berkeley.
He was best known for the co-discovery of the antiproton in 1955, along with Owen C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password%20psychology | Living in the intersection of cryptography and psychology, password psychology is the study of what makes passwords or cryptographic keys easy to remember or guess.
In order for a password to work successfully and provide security to its user, it must be kept secret and un-guessable; this also requires the user to mem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute%20Force%3A%20Cracking%20the%20Data%20Encryption%20Standard | Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard (2005, Copernicus Books ) is a book by Matt Curtin about cryptography.
In this book, the author accounts his involvement in the DESCHALL Project, mobilizing thousands of personal computers in 1997 in order to meet the challenge to crack a single message encrypted with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%20effect | The Wolf effect (sometimes Wolf shift) is a frequency shift in the electromagnetic spectrum.
The phenomenon occurs in several closely related phenomena in radiation physics, with analogous effects occurring in the scattering of light. It was first predicted by Emil Wolf in 1987 and subsequently confirmed in the laborat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Perry%20%28philosopher%29 | John Richard Perry (born 1943) is a professor at Stanford University and the University of California, Riverside. He has made significant contributions to philosophy in the fields of philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is known primarily for his work on situation semantics (together with Jon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSCP | SSCP may refer to:
Systems Security Certified Practitioner, an IT Security certification offered by (ISC)²
Single strand conformation polymorphism in molecular biology
Sums of squares and cross products in statistics
Sethusamudram shipping canal project
Summary of safety and clinical performance for medical devic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricategory | In mathematics, a tricategory is a kind of structure of category theory studied in higher-dimensional category theory.
Whereas a weak 2-category is said to be a bicategory, a weak 3-category is said to be a tricategory (Gordon, Power & Street 1995; Baez & Dolan 1996; Leinster 1998).
Tetracategories are the correspond... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemma | Lemma (from Ancient Greek premise, assumption, from Greek I take, I get) may refer to:
Language and linguistics
Lemma (morphology), the canonical, dictionary or citation form of a word
Lemma (psycholinguistics), a mental abstraction of a word about to be uttered
Science and mathematics
Lemma (botany), a part of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20solution | In analytical chemistry, a standard solution (titrant or titrator) is a solution containing a precisely known concentration of an element or a substance. A known mass of solute is dissolved to make a specific volume. It is prepared using a standard substance, such as a primary standard. Standard solutions are used to d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khovanov%20homology | In mathematics, Khovanov homology is an oriented link invariant that arises as the cohomology of a cochain complex. It may be regarded as a categorification of the Jones polynomial.
It was developed in the late 1990s by Mikhail Khovanov, then at the University of California, Davis, now at Columbia University.
Overvie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective%20neuroscience | Affective neuroscience is the study of how the brain processes emotions. This field combines neuroscience with the psychological study of personality, emotion, and mood. The basis of emotions and what emotions are remains an issue of debate within the field of affective neuroscience.
The term "affective neuroscience" ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Shakura | Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura (Николай Иванович Шакура; born October 7, 1945, in Belarus SSR) is a Russian astrophysicist. He is the head of the relativistic astrophysics department at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University. As a well-known specialist in the theory of accretion disks, as well as X-ray bina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian%20manifold | In mathematics, and more specifically in differential geometry, a Hermitian manifold is the complex analogue of a Riemannian manifold. More precisely, a Hermitian manifold is a complex manifold with a smoothly varying Hermitian inner product on each (holomorphic) tangent space. One can also define a Hermitian manifold ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne%E2%80%93Hawking%E2%80%93Preskill%20bet | The Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet was a public bet on the outcome of the black hole information paradox made in 1997 by physics theorists Kip Thorne and Stephen Hawking on the one side, and John Preskill on the other, according to the document they signed 6 February 1997, as shown in Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20model | In physics, a sigma model is a field theory that describes the field as a point particle confined to move on a fixed manifold. This manifold can be taken to be any Riemannian manifold, although it is most commonly taken to be either a Lie group or a symmetric space. The model may or may not be quantized. An example of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20noise | Quantum noise is noise arising from the indeterminate state of matter in accordance with fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, specifically the uncertainty principle and via zero-point energy fluctuations. Quantum noise is due to the apparently discrete nature of the small quantum constituents such as electrons,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes%27%20rule%20of%20signs | In mathematics, Descartes' rule of signs, first described by René Descartes in his work La Géométrie, is a technique for getting information on the number of positive real roots of a polynomial. It asserts that the number of positive roots is at most the number of sign changes in the sequence of polynomial's coefficien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20physics | Applied physics is the application of physics to solve scientific or engineering problems. It is usually considered a bridge or a connection between physics and engineering.
"Applied" is distinguished from "pure" by a subtle combination of factors, such as the motivation and attitude of researchers and the nature of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDC-2 | In cryptography, MDC-2 (Modification Detection Code 2, sometimes called Meyer–Schilling, standardized in ISO 10118-2) is a cryptographic hash function. MDC-2 is a hash function based on a block cipher with a proof of security in the ideal-cipher model. The length of the output hash depends on the underlying block ciphe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianin%27s%20compound | Dianin's compound (4-p-hydroxyphenyl-2,2,4-trimethylchroman) was first prepared by Aleksandr Dianin in 1914. This compound is a condensation isomer of bisphenol A and acetone and of special importance in host–guest chemistry because it can form a large variety of clathrates with suitable guest molecules. One example is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWT | Ewt or EWT may refer to:
Non-profit organisations
Endangered Wildlife Trust, South Africa
Essex Wildlife Trust, England
Other uses
Eastern War Time, a defunct U.S. time zone
Electroweak theory, in particle physics
Newt (ewt in Middle English), an animal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifiable%20set | In mathematics, a rectifiable set is a set that is smooth in a certain measure-theoretic sense. It is an extension of the idea of a rectifiable curve to higher dimensions; loosely speaking, a rectifiable set is a rigorous formulation of a piece-wise smooth set. As such, it has many of the desirable properties of smoot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versor | In mathematics, a versor is a quaternion of norm one (a unit quaternion). Each versor has the form
where the r2 = −1 condition means that r is a unit-length vector quaternion (or that the first component of r is zero, and the last three components of r are a unit vector in 3 dimensions). The corresponding 3-dimensiona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichromatic | Dichromatic may refer to:
Dichromacy, a form of color-blindness in which only two light wavelengths are distinguished rather than the usual three
Dichromatic, describing an optical device which splits light into two parts according to its wavelength: a form of dichroism
A form of polymorphism (biology), typical in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20B.%20Hurlbut | William B. Hurlbut is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University Medical Center. Born in 1945 in St. Helena, California, he grew up in Bronxville, New York.
After completing his undergraduate studies at Stanford University in 1968, Hurlbut went on to pursue medical training and earn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20electrolyte | In chemistry, a strong electrolyte is a solute that completely, or almost completely, ionizes or dissociates in a solution. These ions are good conductors of electric current in the solution.
Originally, a "strong electrolyte" was defined as a chemical compound that, when in aqueous solution, is a good conductor of e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proizvolov%27s%20identity | In mathematics, Proizvolov's identity is an identity concerning sums of differences of positive integers. The identity was posed by Vyacheslav Proizvolov as a problem in the 1985 All-Union Soviet Student Olympiads.
To state the identity, take the first 2N positive integers,
1, 2, 3, ..., 2N − 1, 2N,
and partition t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Canepa | Mark Canepa is an American computer technology executive.
Biography
Canepa's educational background includes both a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and he completed the University of Pennsylvania's advanced management program at the Wharton School.
Canepa held several manager ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbounded%20nondeterminism | In computer science, unbounded nondeterminism or unbounded indeterminacy is a property of concurrency by which the amount of delay in servicing a request can become unbounded as a result of arbitration of contention for shared resources while still guaranteeing that the request will eventually be serviced. Unbounded n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20maze%20%28neuroscience%29 | A water maze is a device used to test an animal's memory in which the alleys are filled with water, providing a motivation to escape.
Many different mazes exist, such as T- and Y-mazes, Cincinnati water mazes, and radial arm mazes. Water mazes have been used to test discrimination learning and spatial learning abiliti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20Ocean%20Model | The Modular Ocean Model (MOM) is a three-dimensional ocean circulation model designed primarily for studying the ocean climate system. The model is developed and supported primarily by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA/GFDL) in Princeton, N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Henderson | David Henderson may refer to:
Academy
David Henderson (philosopher) (born 1954), American philosopher
David Henderson (psychiatrist) (1884–1965), Scottish psychiatrist
David W. Henderson (1939–2018), American professor of mathematics
David Willis Wilson Henderson (1903–1968), Scottish microbiologist. Director of M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent%20bond | In organic chemistry, a bent bond, also known as a banana bond, is a type of covalent chemical bond with a geometry somewhat reminiscent of a banana. The term itself is a general representation of electron density or configuration resembling a similar "bent" structure within small ring molecules, such as cyclopropane (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Klein%20%28chemist%29 | Jacob Klein (born 1949), is the Herman Mark Professor of Soft Matter Physics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. He is well known for his work in soft condensed matter, polymer science and surface science.
Early life and career
Klein was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and completed secondary school in England. Fol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity%20%28disambiguation%29 | Integrity is the ethical concept of basing of one's actions on a consistent framework of principles.
Integrity may also refer to:
Technology
Data integrity, a concept from information and telecommunications technology in general, and cryptography in particular
System integrity, a telecommunications concept regarding ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash%20%28analytical%20chemistry%29 | In analytical chemistry, ashing or ash content determination is the process of mineralization for preconcentration of trace substances prior to a chemical analysis, such as chromatography, or optical analysis, such as spectroscopy.
Overview
The ash content of a sample is a measure of the amount of inorganic noncombus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaging%20genetics | Imaging genetics refers to the use of anatomical or physiological imaging technologies as phenotypic assays to evaluate genetic variation. Scientists that first used the term imaging genetics were interested in how genes influence psychopathology and used functional neuroimaging to investigate genes that are expressed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20%28genetics%29 | Transition, in genetics and molecular biology, refers to a point mutation that changes a purine nucleotide to another purine (A ↔ G), or a pyrimidine nucleotide to another pyrimidine (C ↔ T). Approximately two out of three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are transitions.
Transitions can be caused by oxidative d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak | Peak or The Peak may refer to:
Basic meanings
Geology
Mountain peak
Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point
Mathematics
Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
Peak (geometry), an (n-3)-dimensional element of a polytope
Peak electricity demand or peak usage
Peak-to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Coyne | André Coyne (10 February 1891, Paris – 21 July 1960, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French civil engineer who designed 70 dams in 14 countries. He received his education at École Polytechnique and its School of Civil Engineering afterwards.
He worked on the Plougastel Bridge and in 1928 was appointed as the chief engineer o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20function | A universal function is a function that can, in some defined way, imitate all other functions. This occurs in several contexts:
In computer science, a universal function is a computable function capable of calculating any other computable function. It is shown to exist by the utm theorem.
In cryptography, a universal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Bunimovich | Leonid Abramowich Bunimovich (born August 1, 1947) is a Soviet and American mathematician, who made fundamental contributions to the theory of Dynamical Systems, Statistical Physics and various applications.
Bunimovich received his bachelor's degree in 1967, master's degree in 1969 and PhD in 1973 from the University o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20boundedness | In mathematics, a uniformly bounded family of functions is a family of bounded functions that can all be bounded by the same constant. This constant is larger than or equal to the absolute value of any value of any of the functions in the family.
Definition
Real line and complex plane
Let
be a family of function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedderman%20Hall | Nedderman Hall (abbreviated NH) is an academic engineering building located on the University of Texas at Arlington campus. The building houses the Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering departments, lecture halls, research labs, the offices of the Dean of the College of Engineering, and a Science and Engineering... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide%20inhibition | In biochemistry, suicide inhibition, also known as suicide inactivation or mechanism-based inhibition, is an irreversible form of enzyme inhibition that occurs when an enzyme binds a substrate analog and forms an irreversible complex with it through a covalent bond during the normal catalysis reaction. The inhibitor b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20biologists%20by%20author%20abbreviation | Lists of biologists by author abbreviation include lists of botanists and of zoologists. The abbreviations are typically used in articles on species described or named by the biologist.
Botanists
Zoologists
List of authors of names published under the ICZN
Lists of biology lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20%28magazine%29 | Make (stylized as Make: or MAKE:) is an American magazine published since June 2019 by Make: Community LLC which focuses on Do It Yourself (DIY) and/or Do It With Others (DIWO) projects involving computers, electronics, metalworking, robotics, woodworking and other disciplines. The magazine is marketed to people who en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20sphere%20complex | Inner sphere complex is a type of surface complex that refers to the surface chemistry changing a water-surface interface to one without water molecules bridging a ligand to the metal ion. Formation of inner sphere complexes occurs when ions bind directly to the surface with no intervening water molecules. These types ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowing | Windowing may refer to:
Windowing system, a graphical user interface (GUI) which implements windows as a primary metaphor
In signal processing, the application of a window function to a signal
In computer networking, a flow control mechanism to manage the amount of transmitted data sent without receiving an acknowledge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Camp%20%28United%20States%29 | Space Camp is an educational camp in Huntsville, Alabama, on the grounds of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center museum near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. It provides residential and educational programs for children and adults on topics such as space exploration, aviation, and robotics. The camp is run by a state gov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiperiodic%20function | In mathematics, a quasiperiodic function is a function that has a certain similarity to a periodic function. A function is quasiperiodic with quasiperiod if , where is a "simpler" function than . What it means to be "simpler" is vague.
A simple case (sometimes called arithmetic quasiperiodic) is if the function obe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20disc | Open disc can refer to:
a disk (mathematics) which does not include the circle forming its boundary
the OpenDisc software project |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insertion | Insertion may refer to:
Insertion (anatomy), the point of a tendon or ligament onto the skeleton or other part of the body
Insertion (genetics), the addition of DNA into a genetic sequence
Insertion, several meanings in medicine, see ICD-10-PCS
Insertion loss, in electronics
Insertion reaction, a chemical reaction in w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie%20Grene | Marjorie Glicksman Grene (December 13, 1910 – March 16, 2009) was an American philosopher. She wrote on existentialism and the philosophy of science, especially the philosophy of biology. She taught at the University of California at Davis from 1965 to 1978. From 1988 until her death, she was Honorary University Distin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Shiryaev | Albert Nikolayevich Shiryaev (; born October 12, 1934) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is known for his work in probability theory, statistics and financial mathematics.
Career
He graduated from Moscow State University in 1957. From that time until now he has been working in Steklov Mathematical Institute.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortlex%20order | In mathematics, and particularly in the theory of formal languages, shortlex is a total ordering for finite sequences of objects that can themselves be totally ordered. In the shortlex ordering, sequences are primarily sorted by cardinality (length) with the shortest sequences first, and sequences of the same length ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Fienberg | Stephen Elliott Fienberg (27 November 1942 – 14 December 2016) was a Professor Emeritus (formerly the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science) in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz College, and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University.
Fienberg was the founding co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20I.%20Soare | Robert Irving Soare is an American mathematician. He is the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he has been on the faculty since 1967. He proved, together with Carl Jockusch, the low basis theorem, and has done other work in mathem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanum%20carbonate | Lanthanum carbonate, La(CO3)3, is the salt formed by lanthanum(III) cations and carbonate anions. It is an ore of lanthanum metal (bastnäsite), along with monazite.
Chemistry
Lanthanum carbonate is used as a starting material in lanthanum chemistry, particularly in forming mixed oxides, for example
for production of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine%20and%20cosine%20transforms | In mathematics, the Fourier sine and cosine transforms are forms of the Fourier transform that do not use complex numbers or require negative frequency. They are the forms originally used by Joseph Fourier and are still preferred in some applications, such as signal processing or statistics.
Definition
The Fourier sin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20R.%20Alcock | Charles Roger Alcock (born 15 June 1951) is a British New Zealander astronomer. He was the director of the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 2004–2022.
Career
Born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, Alcock attended Westlake Boys High School in the North Shore of Auckland from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20of%20discontinuities | Continuous functions are of utmost importance in mathematics, functions and applications. However, not all functions are continuous. If a function is not continuous at a point in its domain, one says that it has a discontinuity there. The set of all points of discontinuity of a function may be a discrete set, a dense s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Structure%20of%20Nucleic%20Acids%3A%20A%20Structure%20for%20Deoxyribose%20Nucleic%20Acid | "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" was the first article published to describe the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, using X-ray diffraction and the mathematics of a helix transform. It was published by Francis Crick and James D. Watson in the scientific journ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter%20Hotz | Günter Hotz (born 16 November 1931) is a German pioneer of computer science. His work includes formal languages, digital circuits
and computational complexity theory. In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20W.%20Clark | George Whipple Clark was an American astronomer and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When he retired, M.I.T. described him as "a central figure in the development of high-energy astrophysics, particularly in the design, analysis, and interpretation of experiments for the study of high-e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille%20Sandorfy | Camille Sandorfy, (9 December 1920 – 6 June 2006) was a Hungarian - Canadian quantum chemist.
Born in Budapest, Hungary, he received his Bachelor of Science in 1943 and Ph.D. in chemistry in 1946 from the University of Szeged. In 1949, he received his second doctorate, a D.Sc., from the Sorbonne.
In 1954, he emigrat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodora%20%28journal%29 | Rhodora is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the New England Botanical Society. Rhodora is devoted primarily to the botany of North America and accepts scientific papers and notes relating to the systematics, floristics, ecology, evolution, biogeography, population genetics, paleobotany, and conservation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerkin%20method | In mathematics, in the area of numerical analysis, Galerkin methods are named after the Soviet mathematician Boris Galerkin. They convert a continuous operator problem, such as a differential equation, commonly in a weak formulation, to a discrete problem by applying linear constraints determined by finite sets of basi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gravity%20Group | The Gravity Group is a wooden roller coaster design firm based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The firm was founded in July 2002 out of the engineering team of the famed but now defunct Custom Coasters International. The core group of designers and engineers at The Gravity Group have backgrounds in civil, structura... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Tymoczko | A. Thomas Tymoczko (September 1, 1943August 8, 1996) was a philosopher specializing in logic and the philosophy of mathematics. He taught at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts from 1971 until his death from stomach cancer in 1996, aged 52.
His publications include New Directions in the Philosophy of Mathemati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Schmitt | Otto Herbert Schmitt (April 6, 1913 – January 6, 1998) was an American inventor, engineer, and biophysicist known for his scientific contributions to biophysics and for establishing the field of biomedical engineering. Schmitt also coined the term biomimetics and invented or co-invented the Schmitt trigger, the differ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro%20blue%20tetrazolium%20chloride | Nitro blue tetrazolium is a chemical compound composed of two tetrazole moieties. It is used in immunology for sensitive detection of alkaline phosphatase (with BCIP). NBT serves as the oxidant and BCIP is the AP-substrate (and gives also dark blue dye).
Clinical significance
In immunohistochemistry the alkaline phosp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Arts | The purpose of the Monash University Faculty of Arts is 'the pursuit, advancement and application of knowledge in the humanities, social and environmental sciences and creative and performing arts'. It offers degrees from undergraduate to PhD level. Entrance into the undergraduate Bachelor of Arts program is competitiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal%20cross | In genetics, a reciprocal cross is a breeding experiment designed to test the role of parental sex on a given inheritance pattern. All parent organisms must be true breeding to properly carry out such an experiment. In one cross, a male expressing the trait of interest will be crossed with a female not expressing the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIBN | AIBN can refer to:
Azobisisobutyronitrile
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
Norwegian Accident Investigation Board |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propane%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on propane.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Density of liquid and gas
Propane is highly temperature dependent. The density of liquid and gaseous propane are given on the next image.
Vapor pressure of liquid
Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Z%C3%A4hringer | Joseph Zähringer (often written Josef, March 15, 1929 – July 22, 1970) was a German physicist.
From 1949 until 1954 he attended the Universität Freiburg, studying physics, mathematics, chemistry and mineralogy. In 1955 he became an assistant at the university, and in 1956 he came to the Brookhaven National Laboratory ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congener | Congener may refer to:
Congener (biology), organisms within the same genus
Congener (chemistry), related chemicals, e.g., elements in the same group of the periodic table
Congener (beverages), a substance other than ethanol produced during the fermentation of alcoholic beverages
Species
Agabus congener, a beetle ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Zwicky | Arnold M. Zwicky (born September 6, 1940) is a perennial visiting professor of linguistics at Stanford University, and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Ohio State University.
Early life and education
Zwicky was born on September 6, 1940, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He received a Bache... |
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