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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira%20Ku%C5%9B | Mira Kuś (born 1948 in Gorlice, Poland) is a contemporary Polish poet. She lives in Kraków and is a journalist and member of the Polish Writers Association.
Works
She graduated in physics at Jagiellonian University and she often writes science articles for the press.
Translations of some of her poems have appeared in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzil | Benzil (i.e. Bz2, systematically known as 1,2-diphenylethane-1,2-dione) is the organic compound with the formula (C6H5CO)2, generally abbreviated (PhCO)2. This yellow solid is one of the most common diketones. Its main use is as a photoinitiator in polymer chemistry.
Structure
The compound's most noteworthy structur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Observatory%2C%20Edinburgh | The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE) is an astronomical institution located on Blackford Hill in Edinburgh. The site is owned by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). The ROE comprises the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) of STFC, the Institute for Astronomy of the School of Physics and Astrono... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duophonic | Duophonic sound was a trade name for a type of audio signal processing used by Capitol Records on certain releases and re-releases of mono recordings issued during the 1960s and 1970s. In this process monaural recordings were reprocessed into a type of artificial stereo. Generically, the sound is commonly known as fake... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catania%20Astrophysical%20Observatory | The Catania Observatory () is an astronomical observatory in the city of Catania, on the island of Sicily in southern Italy. It is operated by INAF, the National Institute for Astrophysics.
See also
List of astronomical observatories
References
External links
Observatory home page
Catania
Astrophysical Observator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatrix%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a separatrix is the boundary separating two modes of behaviour in a differential equation.
Example: simple pendulum
Consider the differential equation describing the motion of a simple pendulum:
where denotes the length of the pendulum, the gravitational acceleration and the angle between the pend... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Bongard | Josh Bongard is a professor at the University of Vermont and a 2010 PECASE awardee.
He attended Northern Secondary School in Toronto, and received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from McMaster University ('97), Canada, his master's degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and his PhD from the University of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Braine%20%28philosopher%29 | David Braine (2 September 1940 – 17 February 2017) was a British analytic philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy of religion and metaphysics, who sought to marry the techniques and insights of analytical philosophy and phenomenology to the metaphysics of classical Thomism. His The Reality of Time and the Exi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF%20antenna%20ion%20source | An RF antenna ion source (or radio frequency antenna ion source) is an internal multi-cusp design that can produce a particle beam of about ~30 to 40 mA current. It is used in high energy particle physics and in accelerator laboratories.
Previous RF antennas would penetrate the porcelain enamel coating on the antenna ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interprime | In mathematics, an interprime is the average of two consecutive odd primes. For example, 9 is an interprime because it is the average of 7 and 11. The first interprimes are:
4, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 26, 30, 34, 39, 42, 45, 50, 56, 60, 64, 69, 72, 76, 81, 86, 93, 99, ...
Interprimes cannot be prime themselves (otherwis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive%20effect | In chemistry, the inductive effect in a molecule is a local change in the electron density due to electron-withdrawing or electron-donating groups elsewhere in the molecule, resulting in a permanent dipole in a bond.
It is present in a σ (sigma) bond, unlike the electromeric effect which is present in a π (pi) bond.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn%20Fox%20Keller | Evelyn Fox Keller (March 20, 1936 – September 22, 2023) was an American physicist, author, and feminist. She was Professor Emerita of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller's early work concentrated at the intersection of physics and biology. Her subsequent research focu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odious%20number | In number theory, an odious number is a positive integer that has an odd number of 1s in its binary expansion. Non-negative integers that are not odious are called evil numbers.
In computer science, an odious number is said to have odd parity.
Examples
The first odious numbers are:
Properties
If denotes the th odio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel%20C.%20Comfort | Nathaniel Charles Comfort is an American historian specializing in the history of biology. He is an associate professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. In 2015, he was appointed the third Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinyl%20palmitate | Retinyl palmitate, or vitamin A palmitate, is the ester of retinol (vitamin A) and palmitic acid, with formula C36H60O2. It is the most abundant form of vitamin A storage in animals.
An alternate spelling, retinol palmitate, which violates the -yl organic chemical naming convention for esters, is also frequently seen.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict%E2%80%93Webb%E2%80%93Rubin%20equation | The Benedict–Webb–Rubin equation (BWR), named after Manson Benedict, G. B. Webb, and L. C. Rubin, is an equation of state used in fluid dynamics. Working at the research laboratory of the M. W. Kellogg Company, the three researchers rearranged the Beattie–Bridgeman equation of state and increased the number of experime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20Luz%20Alegr%C3%ADa | Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla (born 1949) is a Mexican physicist who was the first woman to serve in the Mexican Executive Cabinet.
Alegría studied physics in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). During her time at the university she got involved with UNAM's Consejo General de Huelga ("General Strike Cou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s%20butterfly | In condensed matter physics, Hofstadter's butterfly is a graph of the spectral properties of non-interacting two-dimensional electrons in a perpendicular magnetic field in a lattice. The fractal, self-similar nature of the spectrum was discovered in the 1976 Ph.D. work of Douglas Hofstadter and is one of the early exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Halpern | Joseph Yehuda Halpern (born 1953) is an Israeli-American professor of computer science at Cornell University. Most of his research is on reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty.
Biography
Halpern graduated in 1975 from University of Toronto with a B.S. in mathematics. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20root%20of%20a%20matrix | In mathematics, the square root of a matrix extends the notion of square root from numbers to matrices. A matrix is said to be a square root of if the matrix product is equal to .
Some authors use the name square root or the notation only for the specific case when is positive semidefinite, to denote the unique ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawler%20%28BEAM%29 | In BEAM robotics, a crawler is a robot that has a mode of locomotion by tracks or by transferring the robot's body on limbs or appendages. These do not drag parts of their body on the ground.
In the original paper "living machines" from 1995, two types of robots were introduced which was the Walkman (a simple crawler)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%20tensor | Stress tensor may refer to:
Cauchy stress tensor, in classical physics
Stress deviator tensor, in classical physics
Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor, in continuum mechanics
Viscous stress tensor, in continuum mechanics
Stress–energy tensor, in relativistic theories
Maxwell stress tensor, in electromagnetism
Electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term%20indexing | In computer science, a term index is a data structure to facilitate fast lookup of terms and clauses in a logic program, deductive database, or automated theorem prover.
Overview
Many operations in automatic theorem provers require search in huge collections of terms and clauses. Such operations typically fall into t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emyr%20Jones%20Parry | Sir Emyr Jones Parry FLSW (born 21 September 1947) is a British retired diplomat. He is a former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and former UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council.
Education
Jones Parry was educated at Gwendraeth Grammar School, and went on to ta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiger%E2%80%93Nuttall%20law | In nuclear physics, the Geiger–Nuttall law or Geiger–Nuttall rule relates the decay constant of a radioactive isotope with the energy of the alpha particles emitted. Roughly speaking, it states that short-lived isotopes emit more energetic alpha particles than long-lived ones.
The relationship also shows that half-liv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITP | CITP may stand for:
Computers and networking - Entertainment control systems (Lighting / Media)
Controller Interface Transport Protocol, an open communications protocol for the integration of visualizers, lighting consoles and media servers
Law enforcement training
Criminal Investigator Training Program
Organiza... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMA | MIMA may refer to:
Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
MiMA (building), an apartment building whose name means Middle of Manhattan, New York City, United States
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, art gallery in Middlesbrough, England
Modern Improvisational Music Association, a public c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioner | A conditioner is something that improves the quality of another item.
Conditioner may refer to:
Conditioner (chemistry)
Conditioner (farming)
Air conditioner
Fabric conditioner
Hair conditioner
Leather conditioner
Power conditioner
The apparatus that contains most of the resurfacing components on an ice resur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm%20of%20a%20matrix | In mathematics, a logarithm of a matrix is another matrix such that the matrix exponential of the latter matrix equals the original matrix. It is thus a generalization of the scalar logarithm and in some sense an inverse function of the matrix exponential. Not all matrices have a logarithm and those matrices that do ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioner%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry and materials science, a conditioner is a substance or process that improves the quality of a given material. Conditioning agents used in skincare products are also known as moisturizers, and usually are composed of various oils and lubricants. One method of their use is as a coating of the substrate to a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordtvedt%20effect | In theoretical astrophysics, the Nordtvedt effect refers to the relative motion between the Earth and the Moon that would be observed if the gravitational self-energy of a body contributed differently to its gravitational mass than to its inertial mass. If observed, the Nordtvedt effect would violate the strong equiva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity%20%28disambiguation%29 | Infinity (symbol: ) is a mathematical concept that is involved in almost all branches of mathematics, and used in many scientific and non-scientific areas.
Infinity or infinities may also refer to:
Infinity (philosophy), a related philosophical and metaphysical concept
Mathematics
Infinity symbol
Aleph number, s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCD%20domain | In mathematics, a GCD domain is an integral domain R with the property that any two elements have a greatest common divisor (GCD); i.e., there is a unique minimal principal ideal containing the ideal generated by two given elements. Equivalently, any two elements of R have a least common multiple (LCM).
A GCD domain g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%20class | In mathematics, specifically in algebraic topology, the Euler class is a characteristic class of oriented, real vector bundles. Like other characteristic classes, it measures how "twisted" the vector bundle is. In the case of the tangent bundle of a smooth manifold, it generalizes the classical notion of Euler characte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robion%20Kirby | Robion Cromwell Kirby (born February 25, 1938) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who specializes in low-dimensional topology. Together with Laurent C. Siebenmann he developed the Kirby–Siebenmann invariant for classifying the piecewise linear structures on a topological manifold. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein%20quadric | In mathematics, the lines of a 3-dimensional projective space, S, can be viewed as points of a 5-dimensional projective space, T. In that 5-space, the points that represent each line in S lie on a quadric, Q known as the Klein quadric.
If the underlying vector space of S is the 4-dimensional vector space V, then T has... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20partition | In mathematics and especially in combinatorics, a plane partition is a two-dimensional array of nonnegative integers (with positive integer indices i and j) that is nonincreasing in both indices. This means that
and for all i and j.
Moreover, only finitely many of the may be nonzero. Plane partitions are a general... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHE | DHE can refer to:
Dhe (Cyrillic)
Dihydroergotamine
Design Human Engineering, a methodology of psychological influence developed by Richard Bandler
Diffie–Hellman key exchange, a method of exchanging cryptographic keys
Dynamic hydrogen electrode, a reference electrode in electrochemistry
DHE, a Spanish-dubbed mov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiap%20Research%20Institute | The Idiap Research Institute is a semi-private non-profit research institute at Martigny in the canton of Valais, in south-western Switzerland. It conducts research in the areas of speech processing, computer vision, information retrieval, biometric authentication, multimodal interaction and machine learning. The insti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20de%20la%20Francophonie%20pour%20l%27Informatique | The Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Informatique (IFI), French for the "Computer Science Institute for the Francophonie", is a graduate school in computer science in Vietnam.
It was created and funded by the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) in 1995 following a request from the Vietnamese government for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Ludwig%20Raabe | Joseph Ludwig Raabe (15 May 1801 in Brody, Galicia – 22 January 1859 in Zürich, Switzerland) was a Swiss mathematician.
Life
As his parents were quite poor, Raabe was forced to earn his living from a very early age by giving private lessons. He began to study mathematics in 1820 at the Polytechnicum in Vienna, Austri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutination%20%28biology%29 | Agglutination is the clumping of particles. The word agglutination comes from the Latin agglutinare (glueing to).
Agglutination is a reaction in which particles (as red blood cells or bacteria) suspended in a liquid collect into clumps usually as a response to a specific antibody.
This occurs in biology in two main... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-algebraically%20closed%20field | In mathematics, a field F is called quasi-algebraically closed (or C1) if every non-constant homogeneous polynomial P over F has a non-trivial zero provided the number of its variables is more than its degree. The idea of quasi-algebraically closed fields was investigated by C. C. Tsen, a student of Emmy Noether, in a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20robotics | Cognitive Robotics or Cognitive Technology is a subfield of robotics concerned with endowing a robot with intelligent behavior by providing it with a processing architecture that will allow it to learn and reason about how to behave in response to complex goals in a complex world. Cognitive robotics may be considered ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding%20efficiency | Coding efficiency may refer to:
In computing
Data compression efficiency
Algorithmic efficiency
In biology
Efficient coding hypothesis
See also
Efficiency (disambiguation)
Coding (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-time%20algorithm%20specialization | In computer science, run-time algorithm specialization is a methodology for creating efficient algorithms for costly computation tasks of certain kinds. The methodology originates in the field of automated theorem proving and, more specifically, in the Vampire theorem prover project.
The idea is inspired by the use of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noetherian%20topological%20space | In mathematics, a Noetherian topological space, named for Emmy Noether, is a topological space in which closed subsets satisfy the descending chain condition. Equivalently, we could say that the open subsets satisfy the ascending chain condition, since they are the complements of the closed subsets. The Noetherian pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordance%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, concordance is the probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic. Concordance can be measured with concordance rates, reflecting the odds of one person having the trait if the other does. Important clinica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20group%20%28disambiguation%29 | The term functional group may have several meanings:
Functional group, in organic chemistry, a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions of a molecule
Functional group (ecology), a collection of organisms
The Party of the Functional Groups, also known as Golkar, a political party in Indonesi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesiomorphy%20and%20symplesiomorphy | In phylogenetics, a plesiomorphy ("near form") and symplesiomorphy are synonyms for an ancestral character shared by all members of a clade, which does not distinguish the clade from other clades.
Plesiomorphy, symplesiomorphy, apomorphy, and synapomorphy, all mean a trait shared between species because they share an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity | Polarity may refer to:
Science
Electrical polarity, direction of electrical current
Polarity (mutual inductance), the relationship between components such as transformer windings
Polarity (projective geometry), in mathematics, a duality of order two
Polarity in embryogenesis, the animal and vegetal poles within a blas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroperoxyl | The hydroperoxyl radical, also known as the hydrogen superoxide, is the protonated form of superoxide with the chemical formula HO2, also written HOO•. This species plays an important role in the atmosphere and as a reactive oxygen species in cell biology.
Structure and reactions
The molecule has a bent structure.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adragon%20De%20Mello | Adragon De Mello (born October 8, 1976) graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in computational mathematics in 1988, at age 11. At the time, he was the youngest college graduate in U.S. history, a record broken in 1994 by Michael Kearney. His early achievements may have been more due to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatchard%20equation | The Scatchard equation is an equation used in molecular biology to calculate the affinity and number of binding sites of a receptor for a ligand. It is named after the American chemist George Scatchard.
Equation
Throughout this article, [RL] denotes the concentration of a receptor-ligand complex, [R] the concentratio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte%20Davidoff | Monte Davidoff (; born 1956) is an American computer programmer.
Davidoff is from Glendale, Wisconsin. He graduated from Nicolet High School in 1974, and went on to Harvard College, where he majored in applied mathematics, the department at Harvard that, at the time, included computer science. Davidoff also worked at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus%20Mathematical%20Monographs | The Carus Mathematical Monographs is a monograph series published by the Mathematical Association of America. Books in this series are intended to appeal to a wide range of readers in mathematics and science.
Scope and audience
While the books are intended to cover nontrivial material, the emphasis is on exposition an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondo | Mondo (Italian, Ido, and Esperanto for world), may refer to:
People
Michael Mondo, Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer
Mondo Guerra, American fashion designer
Armand ”Mondo” Duplantis, Swedish pole vaulter
Computer science
Mondo Rescue, a GPL data backup and recovery software project
Mondo, a beta build of Mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica%20Inc. | Mathematica Inc., formerly Mathematica Policy Research, is an American research organization and consulting company headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. The company provides data science, social science, and technological services for social policy initiatives. Mathematica employs approximately 1,600 researchers, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogenesis | In biochemistry, lipogenesis is the conversion of fatty acids and glycerol into fats, or a metabolic process through which acetyl-CoA is converted to triglyceride for storage in fat. Lipogenesis encompasses both fatty acid and triglyceride synthesis, with the latter being the process by which fatty acids are esterified... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefschetz%20zeta%20function | In mathematics, the Lefschetz zeta-function is a tool used in topological periodic and fixed point theory, and dynamical systems. Given a continuous map , the zeta-function is defined as the formal series
where is the Lefschetz number of the -th iterate of . This zeta-function is of note in topological periodic point... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemicontinuity | In mathematics, the notion of the continuity of functions is not immediately extensible to set-valued functions between two sets A and B.
The dual concepts of upper hemicontinuity and lower hemicontinuity facilitate such an extension.
A set-valued function that has both properties is said to be continuous in an analo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated%20measure | In mathematics, a measure is said to be saturated if every locally measurable set is also measurable. A set , not necessarily measurable, is said to be a if for every measurable set of finite measure, is measurable. -finite measures and measures arising as the restriction of outer measures are saturated.
Referenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20homotopy%20theory | In mathematics, stable homotopy theory is the part of homotopy theory (and thus algebraic topology) concerned with all structure and phenomena that remain after sufficiently many applications of the suspension functor. A founding result was the Freudenthal suspension theorem, which states that given any pointed space ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pran%20Nath%20%28physicist%29 | Pran Nath is a theoretical physicist working at Northeastern University, with research focus in elementary particle physics. He holds a Matthews Distinguished University Professor chair.
Research
His main area of research is in the fields of supergravity and particle physics beyond the standard model. He is one of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Maine%20at%20Machias | The University of Maine at Machias (UMaine Machias or UMM) is a public college in Machias, Maine. It is part of the University of Maine System. The institution was founded in 1909 as a normal school for educating teachers, and offers studies in recreation, English, education, social sciences, and physical sciences, inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptor | Descriptor may refer to:
An identifier
In computer science:
Billing descriptor, the merchant's name that appears on a credit card statement
Short Payment Descriptor, a compact data format for an easy exchange of a payment information using modern electronic channels
Data descriptor, a software or hardware structure de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio%20Cesar | Julio César and Júlio César are the terms for Julius Caesar in Spanish and Portuguese languages respectively. They may also refer to:
Julio César Salas Municipality, Venezuela
Academics
Julio Cesar Firrufino (1578–1651), Spanish engineer and mathematician.
Júlio César de Mello e Souza (1895–1974), Brazilian writer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioCreative | BioCreAtIvE (A critical assessment of text mining methods in molecular biology) consists in a community-wide effort for evaluating information extraction and text mining developments in the biological domain.
It was preceded by the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) Challenge Cup for detection of gene mentions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20computing | Physical computing involves interactive systems that can sense and respond to the world around them. While this definition is broad enough to encompass systems such as smart automotive traffic control systems or factory automation processes, it is not commonly used to describe them. In a broader sense, physical computi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge%20covariant%20derivative | In physics, the gauge covariant derivative is a means of expressing how fields vary from place to place, in a way that respects how the coordinate systems used to describe a physical phenomenon can themselves change from place to place. The gauge covariant derivative is used in many areas of physics, including quantum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandium%28III%29%20trifluoromethanesulfonate | Scandium trifluoromethanesulfonate, commonly called scandium triflate, is a chemical compound with formula Sc(SO3CF3)3, a salt consisting of scandium cations Sc3+ and triflate anions.
Scandium triflate is used as a reagent in organic chemistry as a Lewis acid. Compared to other Lewis acids, this reagent is stable tow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20F.%20Jacobson | Michael F. Jacobson (born July 29, 1943), who holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is an American scientist and nutrition advocate.
Jacobson co-founded the Center for Science in the Public Interest in 1971, along with two fellow scientists (James B. Sullivan, Albert J. Fritsch) he ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense%20%28disambiguation%29 | Nonsense is an utterance or written text that does not in fact carry any identifiable meaning.
Nonsense may also mean:
Abstract nonsense, a term used by mathematicians to describe certain kinds of arguments and concepts in category theory
Nonsense mutation, a term in genetics for a point mutation in a sequence of DNA ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Stephens%20%28statistician%29 | Matthew Stephens (born 1970) is a Bayesian statistician and professor in the departments of human genetics and statistics at the University of Chicago. He is known for the Li and Stephens model as an efficient coalescent.
Education
Stephens has a PhD from Magdalen College, Oxford University where his advisor was Bri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arndt%E2%80%93Eistert%20reaction | In organic chemistry, the Arndt–Eistert reaction is the conversion of a carboxylic acid to its homologue. Named for the German chemists Fritz Arndt (1885–1969) and Bernd Eistert (1902–1978), the method entails treating an acid chlorides with diazomethane. It is a popular method of producing β-amino acids from α-amino... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20West%20%28chemist%29 | Robert Culbertson West Jr. (March 18, 1928 – October 12, 2022) was an American chemist.
West was an E. G. Rochow Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Director of the Organosilicon Research Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison 1999–20??; President, Silatronix, Inc. (2007–20??); Di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cram%C3%A9r%E2%80%93Wold%20theorem | In mathematics, the Cramér–Wold theorem in measure theory states that a Borel probability measure on is uniquely determined by the totality of its one-dimensional projections. It is used as a method for proving joint convergence results. The theorem is named after Harald Cramér and Herman Ole Andreas Wold.
Let
and
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yrj%C3%B6%20Vartia | Yrjö O. Vartia (born June 3, 1946 in Helsinki, Finland) is the professor of econometrics in the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Career
He received his B.S. (mathematics) in 1968 and his M.A. (statistics) in 1971 from the University of Helsinki and Licentiate of Phi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Southon%20%28writer%29 | Mike Southon is a British entrepreneur and author.
Education
Mike Southon was educated at Papplewick School, Ascot (where he was a contemporary of Richard Curtis) and Wellington College, Crowthorne (where in 1967 he met Chris West, who was to become his co-author).
He subsequently attended Imperial College London to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton%20effect | The Cotton effect in physics, is the characteristic change in optical rotatory dispersion and/or circular dichroism in the vicinity of an absorption band of a substance.
In a wavelength region where the light is absorbed, the absolute magnitude of the optical rotation at first varies rapidly with wavelength, crosses ze... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20K%C3%BChne | Wilhelm Friedrich Kühne (28 March 183710 June 1900) was a German physiologist. Born in Hamburg, he is best known today for coining the word enzyme in 1878.
Biography
Kühne was born at Hamburg on 28 March 1837. After attending the gymnasium in Lüneburg, he went to Göttingen, where his master in chemistry was Friedrich ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial | Medial may refer to:
Mathematics
Medial magma, a mathematical identity in algebra
Geometry
Medial axis, in geometry the set of all points having more than one closest point on an object's boundary
Medial graph, another graph that represents the adjacencies between edges in the faces of a plane graph
Medial tria... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20encapsulation | In supramolecular chemistry, molecular encapsulation is the confinement of a guest molecule inside the cavity of a supramolecular host molecule (molecular capsule, molecular container or cage compounds). Examples of supramolecular host molecule include carcerands and endohedral fullerenes.
Reactivity of guests
An im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagnation%20pressure | In fluid dynamics, stagnation pressure is the static pressure at a stagnation point in a fluid flow. At a stagnation point the fluid velocity is zero. In an incompressible flow, stagnation pressure is equal to the sum of the free-stream static pressure and the free-stream dynamic pressure.
Stagnation pressure is somet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy%20%28biology%29 | In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant cropping or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns. In forest ecology, canopy refers to the upper layer or habitat zone, formed by mature tree crowns and including other biological organisms (epiphytes, lianas, arboreal animals, etc.). The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Class%20Railway%20Apprentice | Special Class Railway Apprentice (SCRA) was a programme by which candidates are selected by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) India, to train in the undergraduate program in mechanical engineering at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jamalpur. This programme started in 192... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filtered%20algebra | In mathematics, a filtered algebra is a generalization of the notion of a graded algebra. Examples appear in many branches of mathematics, especially in homological algebra and representation theory.
A filtered algebra over the field is an algebra over that has an increasing sequence of subspaces of such that
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEPP-2000 | VEPP-2000 () is an upgrade of the former VEPP-2M electron-positron collider (particle accelerator) at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) in Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia.
References
See also
VEPP-5
Particle physics facilities
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enol%20ether | In organic chemistry an enol ether is an alkene with an alkoxy substituent. The general structure is R2C=CR-OR where R = H, alkyl or aryl. A common subfamily of enol ethers are vinyl ethers, with the formula ROCH=CH2. Important enol ethers include the reagent 3,4-dihydropyran and the monomers methyl vinyl ether and eth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Yves%20Bouguet | Jean-Yves Bouguet Ph.D. was a member of the Computer Vision Research Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, having graduated from the École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Électronique et Électrotechnique. Bouguet developed and holds a patent for a new method for 3D scan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20branches%20of%20psychology | This non-exhaustive list contains many of the sub-fields within the field of psychology:
Abnormal psychology
Analytical psychology
Animal psychology
Anomalistic psychology
Applied behavior analysis
Applied psychology
Asian psychology
Behavioral psychology
Behavioral genetics
Behavioral medicine
Biopsycholog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenching%20%28fluorescence%29 | In chemistry, quenching refers to any process which decreases the fluorescent intensity of a given substance. A variety of processes can result in quenching, such as excited state reactions, energy transfer, complex-formation and collisions. As a consequence, quenching is often heavily dependent on pressure and tempera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy%20of%20artificial%20intelligence | The philosophy of artificial intelligence is a branch of the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of computer science that explores artificial intelligence and its implications for knowledge and understanding of intelligence, ethics, consciousness, epistemology, and free will. Furthermore, the technology is concerned ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Trinkle | Jeffrey C. Trinkle is Professor and Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering department at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is known for his work in robotic manipulation, multibody dynamics, and automated manufacturing. He has bachelor's degrees in physics (1979) and engineering (1979) from Ursinus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20Academic%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | It's Academic is an Australian children's game show which is based on the long-running American version of It's Academic, and pits students from different schools against each other in a test of knowledge covering a number of diverse subjects including English, mathematics, science, geography, sport, music and popular ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillon%20law%2C%202005 | The Fillon law of 2005 was a law that was adopted in France in April 2005 which would reform France's education system. It is named after François Fillon, the Minister of Education at the time.
Aims of the law
Introduction of a core knowledge for certain subjects. This includes French, mathematics, a foreign language... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20chaos | In the kinetic theory of gases in physics, the molecular chaos hypothesis (also called Stosszahlansatz in the writings of Paul Ehrenfest) is the assumption that the velocities of colliding particles are uncorrelated, and independent of position. This means the probability that a pair of particles with given velocities ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Physical%20Society | The German Physical Society (German: , DPG) is the oldest organisation of physicists. The DPG's worldwide membership is cited as 52,220, as of 2022, making it one of the largest national physics societies in the world. The number of the DPG's members peaked in 2014, when it reached 63000, but it has been decreasing sin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20reference%20system | A spatial reference system (SRS) or coordinate reference system (CRS) is a framework used to precisely measure locations on the surface of Earth as coordinates. It is thus the application of the abstract mathematics of coordinate systems and analytic geometry to geographic space. A particular SRS specification (for exa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESTAR%20project | The eSTAR project was a multi-agent system that aimed to implement a heterogeneous network of robotic telescopes for automated observing, and ground-based follow-up to transient events. The project is a joint collaboration between the Astrophysics Group of the University of Exeter and the Astrophysics Research Institut... |
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