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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20William%20Moffett | Sir Thomas William Moffett (3 June 1820 – 6 July 1908) was an Irish scholar and educationalist, who served as president of Queen's College Galway.
Moffett was born at Castleknock, County Dublin, on 3 June 1820. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he was a Berkeley Gold Medallist in Logic and Metaphysics, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered%20Chemist | Chartered Chemist (CChem) is a chartered status awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in the United Kingdom, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) in Australia, by the Ministry of Education in Italy, the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon (IChemC), Sri Lanka, and the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20E.%20Sammet | Jean E. Sammet (March 23, 1928 – May 20, 2017) was an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962. She was also one of the developers of the influential COBOL programming language.
She received her B.A. in Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College in 1948 and her M.A. in Mathematics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Schwartz | Samuel I. Schwartz, also known as Gridlock Sam, is an American transportation engineer, formerly the New York City Traffic Commissioner, notable for popularizing the phrase "gridlock".
Life and career
Schartz was educated at Brooklyn College (BS Physics) and the University of Pennsylvania (MSCE), and first worked as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blattner%27s%20conjecture | In mathematics, Blattner's conjecture or Blattner's formula is a description of the discrete series representations of a general semisimple group G in terms of their restricted representations to a maximal compact subgroup K (their so-called K-types). It is named after Robert James Blattner, despite not being formulate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioketone | In organic chemistry, thioketones (; also known as thiones or thiocarbonyls) are organosulfur compounds related to conventional ketones in which the oxygen has been replaced by a sulfur. Instead of a structure of , thioketones have the structure , which is reflected by the prefix "thio-" in the name of the functional g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor%20Curtius | Geheimrat Julius Wilhelm Theodor Curtius (27 May 1857 – 8 February 1928) was professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg University and elsewhere. He published the Curtius rearrangement in 1890/1894 and also discovered diazoacetic acid, hydrazine and hydrazoic acid.In 1882 he carried out the first ever peptide synthesis, crea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Fr%C3%A9chet | Jean M.J. Fréchet (born August 1944) is a French-American chemist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his work on polymers including polymer-supported chemistry, chemically amplified photoresists, dendrimers, macroporous separation media, and polymers for therapeutics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20reversal%20signal%20processing | Time reversal signal processing is a signal processing technique that has three main uses: creating an optimal carrier signal for communication, reconstructing a source event, and focusing high-energy waves to a point in space. A Time Reversal Mirror (TRM) is a device that can focus waves using the time reversal metho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvable%20Lie%20algebra | In mathematics, a Lie algebra is solvable if its derived series terminates in the zero subalgebra. The derived Lie algebra of the Lie algebra is the subalgebra of , denoted
that consists of all linear combinations of Lie brackets of pairs of elements of . The derived series is the sequence of subalgebras
If the der... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neochoerus | Neochoerus ("new hog") is an extinct genus of rodent closely related to the living capybara. Fossil remains of Neochoerus have been found through North America (México and United States) and South America in Boyacá, Colombia.
References
Further reading
Paleobiology Database query for Neochoerus
Cavies
Pleistocene ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypokeimenon | Hypokeimenon (Greek: ὑποκείμενον), later often material substratum, is a term in metaphysics which literally means the "underlying thing" (Latin: subiectum).
To search for the hypokeimenon is to search for that substance that persists in a thing going through change—its basic essence.
Overview
Aristotle defined a hyp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20address%20space%20operating%20system | In computer science, a single address space operating system (or SASOS) is an operating system that provides only one globally shared address space for all processes. In a single address space operating system, numerically identical (virtual memory) logical addresses in different processes all refer to exactly the same... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weil%20reciprocity%20law | In mathematics, the Weil reciprocity law is a result of André Weil holding in the function field K(C) of an algebraic curve C over an algebraically closed field K. Given functions f and g in K(C), i.e. rational functions on C, then
f((g)) = g((f))
where the notation has this meaning: (h) is the divisor of the functio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang%20Chao%20%28physicist%29 | Tang Chao (; born 1958) is a Chair Professor of Physics and Systems Biology at Peking University.
Education
He had his undergraduate training at the University of Science and Technology of China, then went to the United States through the CUSPEA program organized by Professor T. D. Lee. He received a Ph.D. degree in P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry%20%28Girls%20Aloud%20album%29 | Chemistry is the third studio album by English-Irish girl group Girls Aloud. It was released in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2005 by Polydor Records. After the success of What Will the Neighbours Say?, the album was again entirely produced by Brian Higgins and his production team Xenomania. Chemistry is a loose con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam%20emittance | In accelerator physics, emittance is a property of a charged particle beam. It refers to the area occupied by the beam in a position-and-momentum phase space.
Each particle in a beam can be described by its position and momentum along each of three orthogonal axes, for a total of six position and momentum coordinates.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation%20damping | Radiation damping in accelerator physics is a way of reducing the beam emittance of a high-velocity charged particle beam by synchrotron radiation.
The two main ways of using radiation damping to reduce the emittance of a particle beam are the use of undulators and damping rings (often containing undulators), both rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%20relation%20%28kinetic%20theory%29 | In physics (specifically, the kinetic theory of gases), the Einstein relation is a previously unexpected connection revealed independently by William Sutherland in 1904, Albert Einstein in 1905, and by Marian Smoluchowski in 1906 in their works on Brownian motion. The more general form of the equation in the classical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnjoe%20McFadden | Johnjoe McFadden (born 17 May 1956) is an Anglo-Irish scientist, academic and writer. He is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom.
Life
McFadden was born in Donegal, Ireland but raised in the UK. He holds joint British and Irish Nationality. He obtained his BSc in Biochemistry Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonelli%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Tonelli's theorem may refer to
Tonelli's theorem in measure theory, a successor of Fubini's theorem
Tonelli's theorem in functional analysis, a fundamental result on the weak lower semicontinuity of nonlinear functionals on Lp spaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPN | OPN may stand for:
Osteopontin, a glycoprotein secreted by osteoblasts
Object Process Network, a simulation model meta-language
Optics & Photonics News, a magazine
Oneohtrix Point Never, recording alias of musician Daniel Lopatin
Olivary pretectal nucleus, a nucleus in the pretectal area, or pretectum
In mathematics, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPM | MPM may refer to:
Biology
MPM (psychedelic), a psychedelic drug
Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Matrix population models
Computing and technology
MPM (automobile), an automobile built in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, 1914–1915
MP/M (Multi-Programming Monitor Control Program), a Digital Research operating system
Manu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHK | BHK is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:
BHK interpretation of intuitionistic predicate logic
Baby hamster kidney cells used in molecular biology
Bachelor of Human Kinetics (BHk) degree.
Baltische Historische Kommission, organization dealing with history of Baltic Germans
Biblia Hebraica (Kittel), by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cognitive%20scientists | Below are some notable researchers in cognitive science.
Computer science
Linguistics
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Psychology
Other categories
Alfredo Ardila (neuroscience, neuropsychology, anthropology, evolution of cognition)
Scott Atran (cognitive anthropology)
Joscha Bach (cognitive science)
Frederic Bartlett ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional%20transmutation | In particle physics, dimensional transmutation is a physical mechanism providing a linkage between a dimensionless parameter and a dimensionful parameter.
In classical field theory, such as gauge theory in four-dimensional spacetime, the coupling constant is a dimensionless constant. However, upon quantization, logari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum%20transfer | In particle physics, wave mechanics, and optics, momentum transfer is the amount of momentum that one particle gives to another particle. It is also called the scattering vector as it describes the transfer of wavevector in wave mechanics.
In the simplest example of scattering of two colliding particles with initial m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split%20supersymmetry | In particle physics, split supersymmetry is a proposal for physics beyond the Standard Model.
History
It was proposed separately in three papers. The first by James Wells in June 2003 in a more modest form that mildly relaxed the assumption about naturalness in the Higgs potential. In May 2004 Nima Arkani-Hamed and S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%20graphical%20notation | In mathematics and physics, Penrose graphical notation or tensor diagram notation is a (usually handwritten) visual depiction of multilinear functions or tensors proposed by Roger Penrose in 1971. A diagram in the notation consists of several shapes linked together by lines.
The notation widely appears in modern quan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffeomorphism%20constraint | In theoretical physics, it is often important to study theories with the diffeomorphism symmetry such as general relativity. These theories are invariant under arbitrary coordinate transformations. Equations of motion are generally derived from the requirement that the action is stationary. There are special variations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs%20phase | In theoretical physics, it is often important to consider gauge theory that admits many physical phenomena and "phases", connected by phase transitions, in which the vacuum may be found.
Global symmetries in a gauge theory may be broken by the Higgs mechanism. In more general theories such as those relevant in string ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemische%20Berichte | Chemische Berichte (usually abbreviated as Ber. or Chem. Ber.) was a German-language scientific journal of all disciplines of chemistry founded in 1868. It was one of the oldest scientific journals in chemistry, until it merged with Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas to form Chemische Berichte/Recueil in 1997.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ber. | The abbreviation Ber. may refer to:
Chemische Berichte, a German-language journal of chemistry
Berakhot (Talmud), a tractate of the Mishnah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron%20%28journal%29 | Tetrahedron is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the field of organic chemistry. According to the Journal Citation Reports, Tetrahedron has a 2020 impact factor of 2.457. Tetrahedron and Elsevier, its publisher, support an annual symposium. In 2010, complaints were raised over its high subscription cos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observatory%20of%20Turin | The Observatory of Turin (, also known as Pino Torinese; obs. code: 022) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics (, INAF). It is located on the top of a hill in the town of Pino Torinese near Turin, in the north Italian Piedmont region. The observatory was founde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependence%20relation | In mathematics, a dependence relation is a binary relation which generalizes the relation of linear dependence.
Let be a set. A (binary) relation between an element of and a subset of is called a dependence relation, written , if it satisfies the following properties:
if , then ;
if , then there is a finite s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilpotent%20cone | In mathematics, the nilpotent cone of a finite-dimensional semisimple Lie algebra is the set of elements that act nilpotently in all representations of In other words,
The nilpotent cone is an irreducible subvariety of (considered as a vector space).
Example
The nilpotent cone of , the Lie algebra of 2×2 matr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verma%20module | Verma modules, named after Daya-Nand Verma, are objects in the representation theory of Lie algebras, a branch of mathematics.
Verma modules can be used in the classification of irreducible representations of a complex semisimple Lie algebra. Specifically, although Verma modules themselves are infinite dimensional, qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, specifically the theory of Lie algebras, Lie's theorem states that, over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, if is a finite-dimensional representation of a solvable Lie algebra, then there's a flag of invariant subspaces of with , meaning that for each and i.
Put in another way,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superradiance | In physics, superradiance is the radiation enhancement effects in several contexts including quantum mechanics, astrophysics and relativity.
Quantum optics
In quantum optics, superradiance is a phenomenon that occurs when a group of N emitters, such as excited atoms, interact with a common light field. If the wavelen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution%20%28differential%20geometry%29 | In differential geometry, a discipline within mathematics, a distribution on a manifold is an assignment of vector subspaces satisfying certain properties. In the most common situations, a distribution is asked to be a vector subbundle of the tangent bundle .
Distributions satisfying a further integrability conditio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harnack%27s%20inequality | In mathematics, Harnack's inequality is an inequality relating the values of a positive harmonic function at two points, introduced by . Harnack's inequality is used to prove Harnack's theorem about the convergence of sequences of harmonic functions. , and generalized Harnack's inequality to solutions of elliptic or p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20E.%20Dennis | John Emory Dennis, Jr. (born 1939) is an American mathematician who has made major contributions in mathematical optimization. Dennis is currently a Noah Harding professor emeritus and research professor in the department of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His research inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivariant%20cohomology | In mathematics, equivariant cohomology (or Borel cohomology) is a cohomology theory from algebraic topology which applies to topological spaces with a group action. It can be viewed as a common generalization of group cohomology and an ordinary cohomology theory. Specifically, the equivariant cohomology ring of a spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Physical%20Journal | The European Physical Journal (or EPJ) is a joint publication of EDP Sciences, Springer Science+Business Media, and the Società Italiana di Fisica. It arose in 1998 as a merger and continuation of Acta Physica Hungarica, Anales de Física, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, Il Nuovo Cimento, Journal de Physique, Portugali... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Pudritz | Ralph E. Pudritz is a theoretical astrophysicist tenured at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is an expert in the field of astrophysical jets, particularly those involved in star formation.
Professor Pudritz obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia, and pursued graduat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20George%20Stokes%20Award | The Sir George Stokes Award (colloquially the Stokes Medal) is named after George Gabriel Stokes and is awarded biennially by the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. It was established in 1999 to recognize the multidisciplinary nature of analytical chemistry and is given:
There is no restriction on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%20H.%20Snyder | Solomon Halbert Snyder (born December 26, 1938) is an American neuroscientist who has made wide-ranging contributions to neuropharmacology and neurochemistry. He studied at Georgetown University, and has conducted the majority of his research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Many advances in molecular neuroscie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fangalabola | Fangalabola (Deborrea malgassa) is a species of bagworm moth native to Madagascar.
These bagworms are of significance because their pupae are harvested for human consumption in quantity.
Biology
The length of the larvae is 30–40 mm, length of the bag 35–55 mm, the length of the female is approximately 25 mm.
It has a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartogs%20number | In mathematics, specifically in axiomatic set theory, a Hartogs number is an ordinal number associated with a set. In particular, if X is any set, then the Hartogs number of X is the least ordinal α such that there is no injection from α into X. If X can be well-ordered then the cardinal number of α is a minimal cardi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-skeleton | In mathematics, particularly in algebraic topology, the of a topological space presented as a simplicial complex (resp. CW complex) refers to the subspace that is the union of the simplices of (resp. cells of ) of dimensions In other words, given an inductive definition of a complex, the is obtained by stopping a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20%C3%89tienne%20Louis%20Camus | Charles Étienne Louis Camus (25 August 1699 – 2 February 1768), was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born at Crécy-en-Brie, near Meaux.
He studied mathematics, civil and military architecture, and astronomy after leaving Collège de Navarre in Paris. In 1730 he was appointed professor of architecture and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanocarbon | In organic chemistry, cyanocarbons are a group of chemical compounds that contain several cyanide functional groups. Such substances generally are classified as organic compounds, since they are formally derived from hydrocarbons by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms with a cyanide group. One of the simplest member i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclophane | In organic chemistry, a cyclophane is a hydrocarbon consisting of an aromatic unit (typically a benzene ring) and a chain that forms a bridge between two non-adjacent positions of the aromatic ring. More complex derivatives with multiple aromatic units and bridges forming cagelike structures are also known. Cyclophanes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytochemistry | Cytochemistry is the branch of cell biology dealing with the detection of cell constituents by means of biochemical analysis and visualization techniques. This is the study of the localization of cellular components through the use of staining methods. The term is also used to describe a process of identification of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartogs%27s%20theorem%20on%20separate%20holomorphicity | In mathematics, Hartogs's theorem is a fundamental result of Friedrich Hartogs in the theory of several complex variables. Roughly speaking, it states that a 'separately analytic' function is continuous. More precisely, if is a function which is analytic in each variable zi, 1 ≤ i ≤ n, while the other variables are h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production%20rule | Production rule may refer to:
Production rules used in business rule engines, cognitive modeling and artificial intelligence, see Production system
Production rules that expand nodes in formal grammars, see production (computer science)
Rules governing legal requests that documents be provided, see request for producti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89va%20Tardos | Éva Tardos (born 1 October 1957) is a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Tardos's research interest is algorithms. Her work focuses on the design and analysis of efficient methods for combinatorial optimization problems on graphs or networks. She h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20science%20conferences | This is a list of academic conferences in computer science. Only conferences with separate articles are included; within each field, the conferences are listed alphabetically by their short names.
General
FCRC – Federated Computing Research Conference
Algorithms and theory
Conferences accepting a broad range of to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%E2%80%93Hlawka%20theorem | In mathematics, the Minkowski–Hlawka theorem is a result on the lattice packing of hyperspheres in dimension n > 1. It states that there is a lattice in Euclidean space of dimension n, such that the corresponding best packing of hyperspheres with centres at the lattice points has density Δ satisfying
with ζ the Rieman... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%20Kanellakis | Paris Christos Kanellakis (; December 3, 1953 – December 20, 1995) was a Greek American computer scientist.
Life and academic path
Kanellakis was born on December 3, 1953, in Athens as the only child of General Eleftherios and Mrs. Argyroula Kanellakis.
In 1976, he received a diploma in electrical engineering from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CWD | CWD may refer to:
Biology
Cantabrian Water Dog, Spanish dog breed
Cell wall-deficient bacteria (or L forms)
Chronic wasting disease, of deer
Coarse woody debris, fallen trees and branches
Coffee wilt disease, in coffee trees
Common and well-documented, of human leukocyte antigen alleles
Train stations
Chatswoo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focused%20ion%20beam | Focused ion beam, also known as FIB, is a technique used particularly in the semiconductor industry, materials science and increasingly in the biological field for site-specific analysis, deposition, and ablation of materials. A FIB setup is a scientific instrument that resembles a scanning electron microscope (SEM). H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%27s%20theorem%20on%20special%20divisors | In mathematics, Clifford's theorem on special divisors is a result of on algebraic curves, showing the constraints on special linear systems on a curve C.
Statement
A divisor on a Riemann surface C is a formal sum of points P on C with integer coefficients. One considers a divisor as a set of constraints on meromor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaplectic%20group | In mathematics, the metaplectic group Mp2n is a double cover of the symplectic group Sp2n. It can be defined over either real or p-adic numbers. The construction covers more generally the case of an arbitrary local or finite field, and even the ring of adeles.
The metaplectic group has a particularly significant infin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision%20resistance | In cryptography, collision resistance is a property of cryptographic hash functions: a hash function H is collision-resistant if it is hard to find two inputs that hash to the same output; that is, two inputs a and b where a ≠ b but H(a) = H(b). The pigeonhole principle means that any hash function with more inputs tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed%20Naseeb%20Qureshy | Mohammed Naseeb Qureshy (MN Qureshy) (4 January 1933 – 2005) was a prominent geologist from India.
His main field of study was Exploration geophysics. He graduated from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and earned his Dsc degree in Exploration geophysics from Colorado School of Mines.
During the early 1970s, MN Qureshy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Meyer | Viktor Meyer (8 September 18488 August 1897) was a German chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound. He is sometimes referre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emit%20Bloch | David Edmund Turin (born 8 September 1965), known as Emit Bloch, is an American songwriter and musician.
Background
Emit Bloch is a singer, songwriter and musician referenced for field recordings and lo-fi music production. His parents are George L. Turin, a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bred%20vector | In applied mathematics, bred vectors are perturbations related to Lyapunov vectors, that capture fast-growing dynamical instabilities of the solution of a numerical model. They are used, for example, as initial perturbations for ensemble forecasting in numerical weather prediction. They were introduced by Zoltan Toth a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plimpton%20322 | Plimpton 322 is a Babylonian clay tablet, notable as containing an example of Babylonian mathematics. It has number 322 in the G.A. Plimpton Collection at Columbia University. This tablet, believed to have been written about 1800 BC, has a table of four columns and 15 rows of numbers in the cuneiform script of the pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/251%20%28number%29 | 251 (two hundred [and] fifty-one) is the natural number between 250 and 252. It is also a prime number.
In mathematics
251 is:
a Sophie Germain prime.
the sum of three consecutive primes (79 + 83 + 89) and seven consecutive primes (23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47).
a Chen prime.
an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweitzer%20Engineering%20Laboratories | Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) designs, manufactures, and supports products and services ranging from generator and transmission protection to distribution automation and control systems. Founded in 1982 by Edmund O. Schweitzer III, SEL shipped the world's first digital protective relay. Presently, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20O.%20Schweitzer%20III | Edmund O. Schweitzer III (born 1947, Evanston, Illinois) is an electrical engineer, inventor, and founder of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL). Schweitzer launched SEL in 1982 in Pullman, Washington. Today, SEL manufacturers a wide variety of products that protect the electric power grid and industrial control ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Weyl's theorem or Weyl's lemma might refer to one of a number of results of Hermann Weyl. These include
the Peter–Weyl theorem
Weyl's theorem on complete reducibility, results originally derived from the unitarian trick on representation theory of semisimple groups and semisimple Lie algebras
Weyl's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlueX | GlueX is a particle physics experiment located at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) accelerator in Newport News, Virginia. Its primary purpose is to better understand the nature of confinement in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) by identifying a spectrum of hybrid and exotic mesons generated by the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-free%20element | In mathematics, a square-free element is an element r of a unique factorization domain R that is not divisible by a non-trivial square. This means that every s such that is a unit of R.
Alternate characterizations
Square-free elements may be also characterized using their prime decomposition. The unique factorization... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed%20measure | In mathematics, signed measure is a generalization of the concept of (positive) measure by allowing the set function to take negative values, i.e., to acquire sign.
Definition
There are two slightly different concepts of a signed measure, depending on whether or not one allows it to take infinite values. Signed meas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahn%20decomposition%20theorem | In mathematics, the Hahn decomposition theorem, named after the Austrian mathematician Hans Hahn, states that for any measurable space and any signed measure defined on the -algebra , there exist two -measurable sets, and , of such that:
and .
For every such that , one has , i.e., is a positive set for .
Fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character%20sum | In mathematics, a character sum is a sum of values of a Dirichlet character χ modulo N, taken over a given range of values of n. Such sums are basic in a number of questions, for example in the distribution of quadratic residues, and in particular in the classical question of finding an upper bound for the least quadr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodaira%20embedding%20theorem | In mathematics, the Kodaira embedding theorem characterises non-singular projective varieties, over the complex numbers, amongst compact Kähler manifolds. In effect it says precisely which complex manifolds are defined by homogeneous polynomials.
Kunihiko Kodaira's result is that for a compact Kähler manifold M, with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s%20cat%20in%20popular%20culture | Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, usually described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as absurdities in the views that other physicists had about quantum mechanics (ideas later labeled the Copenhagen interpretation), by applying them not to micros... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20measure | In mathematics, given two measurable spaces and measures on them, one can obtain a product measurable space and a product measure on that space. Conceptually, this is similar to defining the Cartesian product of sets and the product topology of two topological spaces, except that there can be many natural choices for t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%20modeling | In computer science, Actor modeling is a form of software modeling which focuses on software actors. Actor modeling is most prominently used for the early modeling of requirements; through this it becomes possible to understand who the users and stakeholders of a system are and what their interests and needs are regard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%20Freeman | Ross Freeman (July 26, 1948 – October 22, 1989), was an American electrical engineer and inventor, and co-founder of the leading FPGA developer Xilinx.
Early life and education
Freeman was born in the upper peninsula of Michigan on July 26, 1948. He grew up on a farm near Engadine, Michigan.
Freeman earned a BS deg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axillary | Axillary means "related to the axilla (armpit)" or "related to the leaf axils".
"Axillary" may refer to:
Biology
Axillary artery
Axillary border
Axillary fascia
Axillary feathers
Axillary hairs
Axillary lines
Axillary lymph nodes
Axillary nerve
Axillary process
Axillary sheath
Axillary space
Axillary tail... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt%20bridge%20%28protein%20and%20supramolecular%29 | In chemistry, a salt bridge is a combination of two non-covalent interactions: hydrogen bonding and ionic bonding (Figure 1). Ion pairing is one of the most important noncovalent forces in chemistry, in biological systems, in different materials and in many applications such as ion pair chromatography. It is a most com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIX%20%28operating%20system%29 | TRIX is a network-oriented research operating system developed in the late 1970s at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) by Professor Steve Ward and his research group. It ran on the NuMachine and had remote procedure call functionality built into its kernel, but was otherwise a Version 7 Unix workalike.
Design... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%20Willard | Huntington Faxon Willard (born c.1953) is an American geneticist. In 2014, he was named to head the Marine Biological Laboratory, and is a professor in human genetics at the University of Chicago. He stepped down from leading the lab in 2017 to return to research. Willard was elected to the National Academy of Medici... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodaira%20vanishing%20theorem | In mathematics, the Kodaira vanishing theorem is a basic result of complex manifold theory and complex algebraic geometry, describing general conditions under which sheaf cohomology groups with indices q > 0 are automatically zero. The implications for the group with index q = 0 is usually that its dimension — the numb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek%20Kamel | Tarek Kamel (8 May 1962 – 10 October 2019) was an Egyptian politician and computer engineer expert in global Internet governance issues.
Early life and education
Tarek Kamel was born in Cairo, Egypt on 8 May 1962. He graduated from Cairo University with a B.Sc. in electrical engineering and then received an M.Sc. in e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrass | A matrass (mod. Latin matracium) is a glass vessel with a round or oval body and a long narrow neck, used in chemistry as a digester or distiller. The Florence flask of commerce is frequently used for this purpose. The word is possibly identical with an old name matrass (Fr. materas, matelas) for the bolt or quarrel of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20encoding | In mathematics, Church encoding is a means of representing data and operators in the lambda calculus. The Church numerals are a representation of the natural numbers using lambda notation. The method is named for Alonzo Church, who first encoded data in the lambda calculus this way.
Terms that are usually considered p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20environment | In computing, a secure environment is any system which implements the controlled storage and use of information. In the event of computing data loss, a secure environment is used to protect personal or confidential data.
Often, secure environments employ cryptography as a means to protect information.
Some secure en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Taylor%20%28historian%29 | Thomas Taylor (26 February 1858 – 5 July 1938) was an English priest, historian and scholar of Celtic culture.
Life and career
Taylor was born in Thurvaston, Derbyshire, England. He attended King Edward VI School, Macclesfield becoming head boy in 1874. He matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1877, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20whitening | In cryptography, key whitening is a technique intended to increase the security of an iterated block cipher. It consists of steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
Details
The most common form of key whitening is xor-encrypt-xor -- using a simple XOR before the first round and after the last round of en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgkin%E2%80%93Huxley%20model | The Hodgkin–Huxley model, or conductance-based model, is a mathematical model that describes how action potentials in neurons are initiated and propagated. It is a set of nonlinear differential equations that approximates the electrical engineering characteristics of excitable cells such as neurons and muscle cells. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette%20smokers%20problem | The cigarette smokers problem is a concurrency problem in computer science, originally described in 1971 by Suhas Patil. The problem has been criticized for having "restrictions which cannot be justified by practical considerations."
Problem description
Patil's problem includes a "quite arbitrary" "restriction that th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/263%20%28number%29 | 263 is the natural number between 262 and 264. It is also a prime number.
In mathematics
263 is
a balanced prime,
an irregular prime,
a Ramanujan prime, a Chen prime, and
a safe prime.
It is also a strictly non-palindromic number and a happy number.
References
Integers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/269%20%28number%29 | 269 (two hundred [and] sixty-nine) is the natural number between 268 and 270. It is also a prime number.
In mathematics
269 is a twin prime,
and a Ramanujan prime.
It is the largest prime factor of 9! + 1 = 362881,
and the smallest natural number that cannot be represented as the determinant of a 10 × 10 (0,1)-matrix.... |
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