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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lowe | David Lowe may refer to:
Academics
Dave Lowe (atmospheric scientist) (born 1946), New Zealand atmospheric scientist
David Fowler Lowe (1843–1924), headmaster of George Heriot's School
David G. Lowe, Canadian professor of computer science
David Lowe (historian) (born 1964), Australian historian and biographer
Sir David... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20%28civil%20engineering%29 | In civil engineering, a transient is a short-lived pressure wave. A common example is water hammer.
Transients are often misunderstood and not accounted for in the design of water distribution systems, thus contributing to hydraulic element failures, such as pipe breaks and pump/valve failures.
External links
Journa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Bjerrum | Hans Adolf Bjerrum (8 September 1899 – 10 May 1979) was a Danish field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.
He was a member of the Danish field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He later formed the Danish civil engineering company Bierrum, known for building cooling towers for power stations.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman%20Prinja | Prof. Raman K. Prinja is an astronomer, professor and author. He is professor of astrophysics at University College London (UCL) and has been awarded the Pol and Christiane Swings research prize by the Royal Academy of Belgium; UCL Faculty Teaching Award (2000, 2010); UCL Education Award 2018; American Institute of Phy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20temporal%20memory | Hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) is a biologically constrained machine intelligence technology developed by Numenta. Originally described in the 2004 book On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee, HTM is primarily used today for anomaly detection in streaming data. The technology is based on neuroscience... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STI%20College | STI College (formerly known as Systems Technology Institute) is a private network of university/colleges and senior high schools in the Philippines. They primarily cater to computer science and information technology education, but also offer other courses, such as business management and accountancy. The acronym STI h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harish-Chandra%20character | In mathematics, the Harish-Chandra character, named after Harish-Chandra, of a representation of a semisimple Lie group G on a Hilbert space H is a distribution on the group G that is analogous to the character of a finite-dimensional representation of a compact group.
Definition
Suppose that π is an irreducible unit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harish-Chandra%27s%20regularity%20theorem | In mathematics, Harish-Chandra's regularity theorem, introduced by , states that every invariant eigendistribution on a semisimple Lie group, and in particular every character of an irreducible unitary representation on a Hilbert space, is given by a locally integrable function. proved a similar theorem for semisimple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima%27s%20Theorem | In physics, Fukushima's Theorem holds that for all points beneath the ionosphere the magnetic fields from field-aligned currents and their corresponding Pedersen currents exactly cancel. By superposition the total magnetic field at the ground is then equal to the magnetic field from just the ionospheric Hall currents.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Kolh%C3%B6rster | Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster (28 December 1887 – 5 August 1946) was a German physicist and a pioneer of research into cosmic rays.
Kolhörster was born in Schwiebus (Świebodzin), Brandenburg Province of Prussia. While attending the University of Halle, he studied physics under Friedrich Ernst Dorn.
Repeating the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positively%20separated%20sets | In mathematics, two non-empty subsets A and B of a given metric space (X, d) are said to be positively separated if the infimum
(Some authors also specify that A and B should be disjoint sets; however, this adds nothing to the definition, since if A and B have some common point p, then d(p, p) = 0, and so the infimu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric%20outer%20measure | In mathematics, a metric outer measure is an outer measure μ defined on the subsets of a given metric space (X, d) such that
for every pair of positively separated subsets A and B of X.
Construction of metric outer measures
Let τ : Σ → [0, +∞] be a set function defined on a class Σ of subsets of X containing the emp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Paris%20%28mathematician%29 | Jeffrey Bruce Paris (; born 15 November 1944) is a British mathematician and Professor of Logic in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.
Education
Paris gained his doctorate supervised by Robin Gandy at Manchester in 1969 with a dissertation on Large Cardinals and the Generalized Continuum Hypot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryophorus | A cryophorus is a glass container containing liquid water and water vapor. It is used in physics courses to demonstrate rapid freezing by evaporation. A typical cryophorus has a bulb at one end connected to a tube of the same material. When the liquid water is manipulated into the bulbed end and the other end is submer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit%20curve | In mathematics, an implicit curve is a plane curve defined by an implicit equation relating two coordinate variables, commonly x and y. For example, the unit circle is defined by the implicit equation . In general, every implicit curve is defined by an equation of the form
for some function F of two variables. Hence ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mims | Mims or MIMS may refer to:
Education
Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England
Mandarin Immersion Magnet School, Houston, Texas, United States
Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences, Mandya, Karnataka, India
MediCiti Institute of Medical Sciences, near Hyd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal%20%28phylogenetics%29 | In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram. The term may be more strictly applied only to nodes adjacent to the root, or more loosely applied to nodes regarded as being close to the root. Note that extant taxa that lie on branches connecting directly to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimerase%20and%20racemase | Epimerases and racemases are isomerase enzymes that catalyze the inversion of stereochemistry in biological molecules.
Racemases catalyze the stereochemical inversion around the asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having only one center of asymmetry. Epimerases catalyze the stereochemical inversion of the configurat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating%20decision%20tree | An alternating decision tree (ADTree) is a machine learning method for classification. It generalizes decision trees and has connections to boosting.
An ADTree consists of an alternation of decision nodes, which specify a predicate condition, and prediction nodes, which contain a single number. An instance is classif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenylosuccinate%20synthase | In molecular biology, adenylosuccinate synthase (or adenylosuccinate synthetase) () is an enzyme that plays an important role in purine biosynthesis, by catalysing the guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-dependent conversion of inosine monophosphate (IMP) and aspartic acid to guanosine diphosphate (GDP), phosphate and N(6)-(... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%20Dwight%20Smith | Laurence Dwight Smith (1895-1952) was an American author specializing in crime fiction and cryptography.
Early life and education
Smith was born in Detroit, Michigan on January 24, 1895. After completing preparatory school at the Phillips Academy in 1914, he attended Yale College and, after graduating, took a job wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alar%20Toomre | Alar Toomre (born 5 February 1937, in Rakvere) is an American astronomer and mathematician. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Toomre's research is focused on the dynamics of galaxies. He is a 1984 MacArthur Fellow.
Career
Following the Soviet occupation of Estonia ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonically%20normal%20space | In mathematics, specifically in the field of topology, a monotonically normal space is a particular kind of normal space, defined in terms of a monotone normality operator. It satisfies some interesting properties; for example metric spaces and linearly ordered spaces are monotonically normal, and every monotonically ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISEB%20%28disambiguation%29 | ISEB may stand for:
Information Systems Examination Board, former name of the examination awarding body of the British Computer Society
Independent Schools Examinations Board, UK body that sets the Common Entrance Examination
International Symposium On Environmental Biogeochemistry, presenters of the Wolf Vishniac Mem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Joseph | James Jay Joseph (born April 13, 1959) is an American clinical psychologist and author. He practices psychology in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is known for his criticisms of behavior genetics and twin studies in psychology and psychiatry. His view, as he articulated in his 2003 book The Gene Illusion, is that such r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Fox | Leslie Fox (30 September 1918 – 1 August 1992) was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to numerical analysis.
Overview
Fox studied mathematics as a scholar of Christ Church, Oxford graduating with a first in 1939 and continued to undertake research in the engineering department. While working on his D.P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20Buford%20Price | Paul Buford Price (1932 – 2021), usually known as P. Buford Price, was a professor in the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His work had been wide-ranging over his career, but began with the study of physics and included cosmic rays, astrophysic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Cashmore | Roger John Cashmore (born 22 August 1944) is the chair of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Previously he was principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, and professor of experimental physics at the University of Oxford.
His interests include the origin of the masses of particles and the Higgs boson.
Education
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%20Haas | Fritz Haas (January 4, 1886 – December 26, 1969 in Hollywood, Florida) was a Jewish German zoologist born in Frankfurt am Main. He specialized in the field of malacology.
He was trained in biology by herpetologist Oskar Boettger (1844–1910) and malacologist Wilhelm Kobelt (1840–1916). From 1911 to 1936, he was a curat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Sydney%20Nyholm | Sir Ronald Sydney Nyholm (29 January 1917 – 4 December 1971) was an Australian chemist who was a leading figure in inorganic chemistry in the 1950s and 1960s.
Education
Born on 29 January 1917 as the fourth in a family of six children. Nyholm's father, Eric Edward Nyholm (1878–1932) was a railway guard. Nyholm's pate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20Kent%20Dybvig | R. Kent Dybvig is a professor emeritus of computer science at Indiana University Bloomington, in Bloomington, Indiana. His research focuses on programming languages, and he is the principal developer of the optimizing Chez Scheme compiler and runtime system which were initially released in 1985. Together with Daniel P.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C2-Bis%28dimethylarsino%29benzene | 1,2-Bis(dimethylarsino)benzene (diars) is the organoarsenic compound with the formula CH(As(CH)). The molecule consists of two dimethylarsino groups attached to adjacent carbon centers of a benzene ring. It is a chelating ligand in coordination chemistry. This colourless oil is commonly abbreviated "diars."
Coordinati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocard%27s%20problem | Brocard's problem is a problem in mathematics that seeks integer values of such that is a perfect square, where is the factorial. Only three values of are known — 4, 5, 7 — and it is not known whether there are any more.
More formally, it seeks pairs of integers and such thatThe problem was posed by Henri Brocar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrepancy | Discrepancy may refer to:
Mathematics
Discrepancy of a sequence
Discrepancy theory in structural modelling
Discrepancy of hypergraphs, an area of discrepancy theory
Discrepancy (algebraic geometry)
Statistics
Discrepancy function in the context of structural equation models
Deviance (statistics)
Deviation (sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar%20and%20Planetary%20Science%20Conference | The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), jointly sponsored by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), brings together international specialists in petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, geology, and astronomy to present the latest results of research in planetary science. Si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20the%20Isle%20of%20Man | The Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland, has been home to various notable people, including the following who were either born or raised on the island or moved there at some point.
Born on the island
Academics
Martin Bridson, FRS (born 1964), Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxfo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20organic%20chemistry | Physical organic chemistry, a term coined by Louis Hammett in 1940, refers to a discipline of organic chemistry that focuses on the relationship between chemical structures and reactivity, in particular, applying experimental tools of physical chemistry to the study of organic molecules. Specific focal points of study ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%ABl%20Vandekerckhove | Joël Vandekerckhove is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor at the University of Ghent (Ghent, Belgium). He is head of the VIB Department of Medical Protein Research, UGent.
His research department works on functional proteomics: development and applications, molecular cell biology and biochemistry of the actin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Christophe%20Marine | Jean-Christophe Marine (age 50, born 5 October 1968) is a Belgian molecular biologist and researcher at CME (Center of Human Genetics) Ku-Leuven (Belgium). He is head of the VIB Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Biology. His research interest is in the identification and characterization of cancer growth modulators, such ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Callaerts | Patrick Callaerts is a Belgian molecular biologist and researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). He is head of the VIB Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, KU Leuven.
Patrick Callaerts obtained a PhD from the KU Leuven in 1992. He did a Postdoc at the Biozentrum of University of Basel in S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20Thevelein | Johan Thevelein is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). He is head of the VIB Department of Molecular Biology, KU Leuven.
Johan Thevelein obtained a PhD from the KU Leuven in 1981. He did a Postdoc at Yale University in Connecticut, United States from 198... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Naslain | Prof. Roger R. Naslain (born 20 November 1936) is French chemical and physical scientist. He has been a professor at the University of Bordeaux 1 since 1969.
Professor Naslain received his master's degree in chemical and physical sciences from the University of Rennes and his doctoral degree in chemistry from the Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20G.%20Ashmore | Professor Philip George Ashmore, known as Sandy Ashmore, (5 May 1916 – 25 March 2002) was an English academic chemist and the first Professor of Physical Chemistry at UMIST, Manchester.
Background and education
The son of a schoolmaster who later became headmaster of Derby School, Ashmore was educated at Derby School ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartment | Compartment may refer to:
Biology
Compartment (anatomy), a space of connective tissue between muscles
Compartment (chemistry), in which different parts of the same protein molecule serve different functions
Compartment (development), fields of cells of distinct cell lineage, cell affinity, and genetic identity
Com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20participants%20in%20the%20Evolving%20Genes%20and%20Proteins%20symposium | This is a list of scientists who participated in the 1964 Evolving Genes and Proteins symposium, a landmark event in the history of molecular evolution. The symposium, supported by the National Science Foundation, took place on September 17 and September 18, 1964 at the Institute of Microbiology of Rutgers University.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Ginsberg | Donald Maurice Ginsberg (November 19, 1933 – May 7, 2007) was an American physicist and expert on superconductors.
Born in Chicago, Ginsberg attended the University of Chicago, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1952, a Bachelor of Science in 1955, and a Master of Science in 1956. He then earned his doctorate in physics fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsaglia%20polar%20method | The Marsaglia polar method is a pseudo-random number sampling method for generating a pair of independent standard normal random variables.
Standard normal random variables are frequently used in computer science, computational statistics, and in particular, in applications of the Monte Carlo method.
The polar method... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Chatt | Joseph Chatt (6 November 1914 – 19 May 1994) was a renowned British researcher in the area of inorganic and organometallic chemistry. His name is associated with the description of the pi-bond between transition metals and alkenes, the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model.
Chatt received his Ph.D. at the University of Cambri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone%20Mathematics | "Microphone Mathematics" is the second single by Quasimoto, the rapping alter ego of Madlib. These tracks later appeared on his debut album The Unseen. On the album, however, "Discipline 99" was split into 2 tracks. Part 0 featured "Mr. Herb," while part 1 featured Wildchild of the Lootpack.
Track listing
Side A
Mic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%20Konings | Adrianus Franciscus Johannes Marinus Maria "Ad" Konings (born 11 January 1956 in Roosendaal, Netherlands) is an ichthyologist originally trained in medicine and biology. Konings is best known for his research on African rift lake cichlids. After studies in Amsterdam, he has spent most of his life in Rotterdam.
Early... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirst%20for%20Romance | Thirst for Romance is the debut album by Cherry Ghost, released on 9 July 2007 in the UK. The album was made available on CD, digital download, and double vinyl LP. It was recorded at Ape Studios in Cheshire and Moolah Rouge Studios in Stockport. The first single, "Mathematics", was released on 9 April 2007; the second... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20%28Cherry%20Ghost%20song%29 | "Mathematics" is the debut single from Manchester band Cherry Ghost. It was released as a digital download on March 26, 2007 and on CD and 7" vinyl on April 9, 2007. It went to #57 on the UK singles chart. "Mathematics" acquired the title "song of the week" on BBC Radio 2 in early 2007, and Zane Lowe of BBC Radio 1 dec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%20Hospital%20%28Mission%20Viejo%2C%20California%29 | Providence Mission Hospital is a 523-bed acute care regional medical center in Orange County, California with two campuses - one in Mission Viejo, and the second in Laguna Beach. The hospital has designated adult and pediatric Level II Trauma centers in the state of California. Mission Hospital provides cardiovascular,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marti%20G.%20Subrahmanyam | Marti G. Subrahmanyam is the Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Biography
Professor Subrahmanyam holds a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras.
He ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension%20function | In mathematics, the notion of an (exact) dimension function (also known as a gauge function) is a tool in the study of fractals and other subsets of metric spaces. Dimension functions are a generalisation of the simple "diameter to the dimension" power law used in the construction of s-dimensional Hausdorff measure.
M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer%20L.%20Seager | Spencer L. Seager is professor of chemistry at Weber State University.
History
He received his B.S. degree in chemistry and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Utah under the dean of science at the time, Henry Eyring; his adviser was J. Calvin Giddings.
He began teaching at WSU in 1960. He served as ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A5rding%20domain | In mathematics, a Gårding domain is a concept in the representation theory of topological groups. The concept is named after the mathematician Lars Gårding.
Let G be a topological group and let U be a strongly continuous unitary representation of G in a separable Hilbert space H. Denote by g the family of all one-para... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitromethane%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on nitromethane.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. MSDS is available from Mallinckrodt Baker.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Vapor pressure of liquid
Table data obtained from CRC Handbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor-hom%20adjunction | In mathematics, the tensor-hom adjunction is that the tensor product and hom-functor form an adjoint pair:
This is made more precise below. The order of terms in the phrase "tensor-hom adjunction" reflects their relationship: tensor is the left adjoint, while hom is the right adjoint.
General statement
Say R and S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising%20and%20lowering%20indices | In mathematics and mathematical physics, raising and lowering indices are operations on tensors which change their type. Raising and lowering indices are a form of index manipulation in tensor expressions.
Vectors, covectors and the metric
Mathematical formulation
Mathematically vectors are elements of a vector spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Zacharia | Thomas Zacharia (born 1957 in Kerala, India) is an Indian-born American computer scientist. He received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka in 1980 and a master's degree in Materials Science from the University of Mississippi in 1984. He obtained his doctoral... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20current | In mathematics, more particularly in complex geometry,
algebraic geometry and complex analysis, a positive current
is a positive (n-p,n-p)-form over an n-dimensional complex manifold,
taking values in distributions.
For a formal definition, consider a manifold M.
Currents on M are (by definition)
differential forms wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Haken | Hermann Haken (born 12 July 1927) is physicist and professor emeritus in theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart. He is known as the founder of synergetics and one of the "fathers" of quantum-mechanical laser theory. He is a cousin of the mathematician Wolfgang Haken, who proved the Four color theorem. He i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goormaghtigh%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Goormaghtigh conjecture is a conjecture in number theory named for the Belgian mathematician René Goormaghtigh. The conjecture is that the only non-trivial integer solutions of the exponential Diophantine equation
satisfying and are
and
Partial results
showed that, for each pair of fixed expon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framewave | Framewave (formerly AMD Performance Library (APL)) is computer software, a high-performance optimized programming library, consisting of low level application programming interfaces (APIs) for image processing, signal processing, JPEG, and video functions. These APIs are programmed with task level parallelization (mult... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busemann%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Busemann's theorem is a theorem in Euclidean geometry and geometric tomography. It was first proved by Herbert Busemann in 1949 and was motivated by his theory of area in Finsler spaces.
Statement of the theorem
Let K be a convex body in n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn containing the origin in its in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitale%27s%20random%20Brunn%E2%80%93Minkowski%20inequality | In mathematics, Vitale's random Brunn–Minkowski inequality is a theorem due to Richard Vitale that generalizes the classical Brunn–Minkowski inequality for compact subsets of n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn to random compact sets.
Statement of the inequality
Let X be a random compact set in Rn; that is, a Borel–meas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20genomics | Synthetic genomics is a nascent field of synthetic biology that uses aspects of genetic modification on pre-existing life forms, or artificial gene synthesis to create new DNA or entire lifeforms.
Overview
Synthetic genomics is unlike genetic modification in the sense that it does not use naturally occurring genes in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation%20%282005%20film%29 | Isolation is a 2005 Irish science fiction horror film directed and written by Billy O'Brien and produced by Film Four and Lions Gate Films.
Plot
Dan Reilly, who owns a failing farm in rural Ireland, is being paid by a bio-genetics firm to assist in some experiments to make faster-growing cattle. The firm sends Orla, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion%20%28cell%29 | In cellular biology, inclusions are diverse intracellular non-living substances (ergastic substances) that are not bound by membranes. Inclusions are stored nutrients/deutoplasmic substances, secretory products, and pigment granules. Examples of inclusions are glycogen granules in the liver and muscle cells, lipid drop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Carty | Arthur J. Carty, (born 12 September 1940), is a Canadian academic and former National Science Advisor to the Government of Canada.
Carty was the inaugural director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Waterloo, special advisor to the President on international science and technology colla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20Van%20Heuverswyn | Hugo Van Heuverswyn (born 1948) is a Belgian molecular biologist, biotech pioneer, entrepreneur and businessman. He has been the chairman of the VIB, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, since its inception in 1995.
Education
Hugo Van Heuverswyn obtained a chemistry degree at the University of Ghent in 1971 and a Ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milman%27s%20reverse%20Brunn%E2%80%93Minkowski%20inequality | In mathematics, particularly, in asymptotic convex geometry, Milman's reverse Brunn–Minkowski inequality is a result due to Vitali Milman that provides a reverse inequality to the famous Brunn–Minkowski inequality for convex bodies in n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn. Namely, it bounds the volume of the Minkowski sum o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20Hadamard%20matrix | In mathematics a regular Hadamard matrix is a Hadamard matrix whose row and column sums are all equal. While the order of a Hadamard matrix must be 1, 2, or a multiple of 4, regular Hadamard matrices carry the further restriction that the order be a square number. The excess, denoted E(H), of a Hadamard matrix H of o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admissible%20heuristic | In computer science, specifically in algorithms related to pathfinding, a heuristic function is said to be admissible if it never overestimates the cost of reaching the goal, i.e. the cost it estimates to reach the goal is not higher than the lowest possible cost from the current point in the path.
It is related to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Anthony%20High%20School%20%28Illinois%29 | St. Anthony of Padua High School (SAHS) is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Effingham, Illinois. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. St. Anthony was established in 1874 by the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Academics
St. Anthony High School offers AP classes in Calculus, Stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply-with-carry%20pseudorandom%20number%20generator | In computer science, multiply-with-carry (MWC) is a method invented by George Marsaglia for generating sequences of random integers based on an initial set from two to many thousands of randomly chosen seed values. The main advantages of the MWC method are that it invokes simple computer integer arithmetic and leads to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20C.%20Yuen | Henry Che-Chuen Yuen (Chinese: 袁子春; born 7 April 1948, in Shanghai, China) is a founder and former CEO of Gemstar-TV Guide International. He has a PhD in applied mathematics from Caltech. He worked briefly at Caltech and New York University, then obtained a law degree from Loyola Law School.
He founded Gemstar in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourad%20Dhina | Mourad Dhina (; born 6 August 1961) is an Algerian physicist and activist living in Switzerland. He is the executive director of the Alkarama non-governmental organization.
Education and scientific works
He obtained a master's degree in physics from MIT in 1985, two years later he obtained a Ph.D. in particle physics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward%20anonymity | Forward anonymity is a property of a cryptographic system which prevents an attacker who has recorded past encrypted communications from discovering its contents and participants in the future. This property is analogous to forward secrecy.
An example of a system which uses forward anonymity is a public key cryptograp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quillen%20adjunction | In homotopy theory, a branch of mathematics, a Quillen adjunction between two closed model categories C and D is a special kind of adjunction between categories that induces an adjunction between the homotopy categories Ho(C) and Ho(D) via the total derived functor construction. Quillen adjunctions are named in honor o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Krelle | Wilhelm Krelle (24 December 1916 – 23 June 2004) was a German economist.
Krelle was born in Magdeburg, Germany. During World War II he served as a Sturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS. After returning from World War II, he studied physics, mathematics and economics in Tübingen and Freiburg. He received his Ph.D. in econom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borell%E2%80%93Brascamp%E2%80%93Lieb%20inequality | In mathematics, the Borell–Brascamp–Lieb inequality is an integral inequality due to many different mathematicians but named after Christer Borell, Herm Jan Brascamp and Elliott Lieb.
The result was proved for p > 0 by Henstock and Macbeath in 1953. The case p = 0 is known as the Prékopa–Leindler inequality and was re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20W.%20LaBelle | James W. LaBelle is an American physicist. He received his B.S. from Stanford University in 1980, his M.S. from Cornell University in 1982 and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1985. He is currently professor and former department chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrashekhar%20Khare | Chandrashekhar B. Khare (born 1968) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles. In 2005, he made a major advance in the field of Galois representations and number theory by proving the level 1 Serre conjecture, and later a proof of the full conjecture with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger. He has... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping%20%28signal%20processing%29 | Clipping is a form of distortion that limits a signal once it exceeds a threshold. Clipping may occur when a signal is recorded by a sensor that has constraints on the range of data it can measure, it can occur when a signal is digitized, or it can occur any other time an analog or digital signal is transformed, parti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Jewish%20mathematicians | This list of Jewish mathematicians includes mathematicians and statisticians who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent. In 1933, when the Nazis rose to power in Germany, one-third of all mathematics professors in the country were Jewish, while Jews constituted less than one percent of the population. Jewis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive%20state%20representation | In computer science, a predictive state representation (PSR) is a way to model a state of controlled dynamical system from a history of actions taken and resulting observations. PSR captures the state of a system as a vector of predictions for future tests (experiments) that can be done on the system. A test is a seque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace%20College%20of%20Business%20and%20Computer%20Science | The Grace College of Business and Computer Science (GCBC) is a private college located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was established in 2001.
GCBC is a member of the Ethiopian Private Colleges Association. It has been accredited to operate in various fields of study by the Ministry of Education, Region 14 Education Bur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Hildenbrand | Werner Hildenbrand (born 25 May 1936 in Göttingen) is a German economist and mathematician. He was educated at the University of Heidelberg, where he received his Diplom in mathematics, applied mathematics and physics in 1961. He continued his education at the University of Heidelberg and received his Ph.D. in mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infonet%20College | Infonet College is a private tertiary education institution of higher learning in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that trains in Information and Communication Technology. The institute was founded in 1995 by a team of professionals from the fields of Computer Science, Business and Social science.
The college offers both long an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Astronomy%20of%20the%20Bulgarian%20Academy%20of%20Sciences | The Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is a leading Bulgarian research facility in the field of astronomy and astrophysics, located in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The institute co-operates closely with the other two institutions involved in the same field of research in the country - the Department of As... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%20Dale%20Biddle%20Andrews | Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (December 13, 1885 – April 14, 1940) was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Early life and career
She was born in Hanford, California, the youngest daughter (and youngest of seven children) of Samuel Edward Biddle and Achsah Annie Bidd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brascamp%E2%80%93Lieb%20inequality | In mathematics, the Brascamp–Lieb inequality is either of two inequalities. The first is a result in geometry concerning integrable functions on n-dimensional Euclidean space . It generalizes the Loomis–Whitney inequality and Hölder's inequality. The second is a result of probability theory which gives a concentration ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikraman%20Balaji | Vikraman Balaji is an Indian mathematician and is currently a professor at Chennai Mathematical Institute. He completed his doctorate in Mathematics under the supervision of C. S. Seshadri. His primary area of research is in algebraic geometry, representation theory and differential geometry. Balaji was awarded the 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Complex%20Adaptive%20Matter | The Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) is an international multicampus collective of scientists studying emergent phenomena in biology, chemistry and physics and in wider context. ICAM was founded in December 1998 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory with support from the University of California by experime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroglanis%20barnardi |
General
Austroglanis barnardi is an endangered species of catfish (order Siluriformes). It is one of three members of the family Austroglanididae. It is also known as the spotted rock-catfish or Barnard's rock-catfish.
Biology
Not much is known about the biology of A. barnardi because of the discovery being so rec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%20value%20%28quantum%20mechanics%29 | In quantum mechanics, the expectation value is the probabilistic expected value of the result (measurement) of an experiment. It can be thought of as an average of all the possible outcomes of a measurement as weighted by their likelihood, and as such it is not the most probable value of a measurement; indeed the expec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Vizinho | José Vizinho, (also known in English as Joseph Vecinho), was a Portuguese Jew, born in the town of Covilhã, court physician and scientist at the end of the fifteenth century.
He was a pupil of Abraham Zacuto, with whom he studied mathematics and cosmography, and was regarded as an authority on the subject by King John... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%20Marcus%20Schiller-Szinessy | Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy, sometimes Solomon Mayer Schiller-Szinessy (23 December 1820, Budapest, Hungary - 11 March 1890, Cambridge) was a Hungarian rabbi and academic. He became the first Jewish Reader in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature at the University of Cambridge.
Life
He graduated as doctor of philosoph... |
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