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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonist%20theory | Balloonist theory was a theory in early neuroscience that attempted to explain muscle movement by asserting that muscles contract by inflating with air or fluid. The Greek physician Galen believed that muscles contracted due to a fluid flowing into them, and for 1500 years afterward, it was believed that nerves were ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineralization | Mineralization may refer to:
Biomineralization (mineralization in biology), when an inorganic substance precipitates in an organic matrix
Mineralized tissues are tissues that have undergone mineralization, including bones, teeth, antlers, and marine shells
Bone remodeling, involving demineralization and remineraliza... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilator%20method | In mathematics, the annihilator method is a procedure used to find a particular solution to certain types of non-homogeneous ordinary differential equations (ODE's). It is similar to the method of undetermined coefficients, but instead of guessing the particular solution in the method of undetermined coefficients, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken%20diagonal | In recreational mathematics and the theory of magic squares, a broken diagonal is a set of n cells forming two parallel diagonal lines in the square. Alternatively, these two lines can be thought of as wrapping around the boundaries of the square to form a single sequence.
In pandiagonal magic squares
A magic square ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian%20Grassmannian | In mathematics, the Lagrangian Grassmannian is the smooth manifold of Lagrangian subspaces of a real symplectic vector space V. Its dimension is n(n + 1) (where the dimension of V is 2n). It may be identified with the homogeneous space
,
where is the unitary group and the orthogonal group. Following Vladimir Arnold... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20cylinder | A hydraulic cylinder (also called a linear hydraulic motor) is a mechanical actuator that is used to give a unidirectional force through a unidirectional stroke. It has many applications, notably in construction equipment (engineering vehicles), manufacturing machinery, elevators, and civil engineering.
A hydraulic cy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exceptional%20set%20concepts | This is a list of exceptional set concepts. In mathematics, and in particular in mathematical analysis, it is very useful to be able to characterise subsets of a given set X as 'small', in some definite sense, or 'large' if their complement in X is small. There are numerous concepts that have been introduced to study '... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycloheptatriene | Cycloheptatriene (CHT) is an organic compound with the formula C7H8. It is a closed ring of seven carbon atoms joined by three double bonds (as the name implies) and four single bonds. This colourless liquid has been of recurring theoretical interest in organic chemistry. It is a ligand in organometallic chemistry and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability%20of%20autism | The heritability of autism is the proportion of differences in expression of autism that can be explained by genetic variation; if the heritability of a condition is high, then the condition is considered to be primarily genetic. Autism has a strong genetic basis. Although the genetics of autism are complex, autism spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Laporte | Otto Laporte (July 23, 1902 – March 28, 1971) was a German-born American physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics, electromagnetic wave propagation theory, spectroscopy, and fluid dynamics. His name is lent to the Laporte rule in spectroscopy and to the Otto Laporte Award of the American Physical Society.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faculty%20of%20Informatics%20and%20Information%20Technologies | The Faculty of Informatics and Information Technology () is one of the faculties of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
The Faculty was created in 2003 by separating from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. It provides university educa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon%20math | Saxon math, developed by John Saxon (1923–1996), is a teaching method for incremental learning of mathematics created in the 1980s. It involves teaching a new mathematical concept every day and constantly reviewing old concepts. Early editions were deprecated for providing very few opportunities to practice the new ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Lee | Leonard G. Lee CM (July 17, 1938 – July 7, 2016) was a Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Lee Valley Tools and Canica Design. Lee was born in 1938 in Wadena, Sask., and grew up in a log cabin without electricity or running water.
He received a diploma in civil engineering from Royal Roads Military College and a Bach... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scannerless%20parsing | In computer science, scannerless parsing (also called lexerless parsing) performs tokenization (breaking a stream of characters into words) and parsing (arranging the words into phrases) in a single step, rather than breaking it up into a pipeline of a lexer followed by a parser, executing concurrently. A language gram... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoconvexity | In mathematics, more precisely in the theory of functions of several complex variables, a pseudoconvex set is a special type of open set in the n-dimensional complex space Cn. Pseudoconvex sets are important, as they allow for classification of domains of holomorphy.
Let
be a domain, that is, an open connected sub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20of%20holomorphy | In mathematics, in the theory of functions of several complex variables, a domain of holomorphy is a domain which is maximal in the sense that there exists a holomorphic function on this domain which cannot be extended to a bigger domain.
Formally, an open set in the n-dimensional complex space is called a domain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fj%C3%B6lnir%20%28programming%20language%29 | Fjölnir (also Fjolnir or Fjoelnir) is a programming language developed by professor Snorri Agnarsson of computer science at Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland) that was mostly used in the 1980s. The source files usually have the extension fjo or sma.
Features
Fjölnir is based on the concept of representing progr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoconvex%20function | In convex analysis and the calculus of variations, both branches of mathematics, a pseudoconvex function is a function that behaves like a convex function with respect to finding its local minima, but need not actually be convex. Informally, a differentiable function is pseudoconvex if it is increasing in any directio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20systems%20language | The energy systems language, also referred to as energese, or energy circuit language, or generic systems symbols, is a modelling language used for composing energy flow diagrams in the field of systems ecology. It was developed by Howard T. Odum and colleagues in the 1950s during studies of the tropical forests funded... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex%20analysis | Convex analysis is the branch of mathematics devoted to the study of properties of convex functions and convex sets, often with applications in convex minimization, a subdomain of optimization theory.
Convex sets
A subset of some vector space is if it satisfies any of the following equivalent conditions:
If is r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subharmonic%20function | In mathematics, subharmonic and superharmonic functions are important classes of functions used extensively in partial differential equations, complex analysis and potential theory.
Intuitively, subharmonic functions are related to convex functions of one variable as follows. If the graph of a convex function and a li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20backscattering | In physics, coherent backscattering is observed when coherent radiation (such as a laser beam) propagates through a medium which has a large number of scattering centers (such as milk or a thick cloud) of size comparable to the wavelength of the radiation.
The waves are scattered many times while traveling through the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman%20problem | The Diffie–Hellman problem (DHP) is a mathematical problem first proposed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in the context of cryptography. The motivation for this problem is that many security systems use one-way functions: mathematical operations that are fast to compute, but hard to reverse. For example, they e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20National%20Mathematical%20Olympiad | The Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO) is a high school mathematics competition held annually in India since 1989. It is the third tier in the Indian team selection procedure for the International Mathematical Olympiad and is conducted by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) under the aegis of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianchi%20group | In mathematics, a Bianchi group is a group of the form
where d is a positive square-free integer. Here, PSL denotes the projective special linear group and is the ring of integers of the imaginary quadratic field .
The groups were first studied by as a natural class of discrete subgroups of , now termed Kleinian gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%20curvature%20hypothesis | The Weyl curvature hypothesis, which arises in the application of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity to physical cosmology, was introduced by the British mathematician and theoretical physicist Roger Penrose in an article in 1979 in an attempt to provide explanations for two of the most fundamental issues i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE%20Systems%20Integrated%20System%20Technologies | BAE Systems Integrated System Technologies (known informally as Insyte) was a division of BAE Systems plc. The division was a major supplier of defence electronics, integrated command and control systems, radars, simulators, meteorological systems, data links and C4ISR battle management systems
Insyte was formed on 3 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Computable%20Functions | In computer science, Programming Computable Functions (PCF) is a typed functional language introduced by Gordon Plotkin in 1977, based on previous unpublished material by Dana Scott. It can be considered to be an extended version of the typed lambda calculus or a simplified version of modern typed functional languages ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracture%20toughness | In materials science, fracture toughness is the critical stress intensity factor of a sharp crack where propagation of the crack suddenly becomes rapid and unlimited. A component's thickness affects the constraint conditions at the tip of a crack with thin components having plane stress conditions and thick components... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Steiner | Ralph Steiner (February 8, 1899 – July 13, 1986) was an American photographer, pioneer documentarian and a key figure among avant-garde filmmakers in the 1930s.
Photographer
Born in Cleveland, Steiner studied chemistry at Dartmouth, but in 1921 entered the Clarence H. White School of Modern Photography. White helped S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Robert%20Anderson%20%28psychologist%29 | John Robert Anderson (born August 27, 1947) is a Canadian-born American psychologist. He is currently professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Biography
Anderson obtained a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford in 1972. He beca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda%20lattice | The Toda lattice, introduced by , is a simple model for a one-dimensional crystal in solid state physics. It is famous because it is one of the earliest examples of a non-linear completely integrable system.
It is given by a chain of particles with nearest neighbor interaction, described by the Hamiltonian
and the eq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, an offset within an array or other data structure object is an integer indicating the distance (displacement) between the beginning of the object and a given element or point, presumably within the same object. The concept of a distance is valid only if all elements of the object are of the same si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Truran | Trevor Truran (born 1942) is a United Kingdom former mathematics teacher, best known as the creator of many games and puzzles. Truran began making up games as mathematical teaching aids. At one time his entire mathematics course for 9-13 year olds was based on games, puzzles and story situations.
Early games were publ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDH | XDH may refer to:
the XDH Assumption, or, the External Diffie-Hellman assumption, a mathematic assumption used in elliptic curve cryptography
xanthine dehydrogenase, an enzyme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Zee | Anthony Zee (, b. 1945) (Zee comes from /ʑi23/, the Shanghainese pronunciation of 徐) is a Chinese-American physicist, writer, and a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
After graduating from Princeton University, Zee obtaine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick%20Weinberg | Erick J. Weinberg (born August 29, 1947) is a theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Columbia University.
Weinberg received his undergraduate degree from Manhattan College in 1968. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973 under the supervision of Sidney Coleman, with whom he discovered the Cole... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan%E2%80%93Paton%20factor | In theoretical physics, the Chan–Paton factor (named after Jack E. Paton and Hong-Mo Chan) is a multivalued index associated with the endpoints of an open string. An open string can be interpreted as a flux tube connecting a quark and its antiparticle. The two Chan–Paton factors make the string transform as a tensor un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20background | In theoretical physics, a string background refers to the set of classical values of quantum fields in spacetime that correspond to classical solutions of string theory. Such a background is associated with geometry that solves Einstein's field equations (with higher order corrections) or their generalizations and with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikheyev%E2%80%93Smirnov%E2%80%93Wolfenstein%20effect | The Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect (often referred to as the matter effect) is a particle physics process which modifies neutrino oscillations in matter of varying density. The MSW effect is broadly analogous to the differential retardation of sound waves in density-variable media, however it also involves the pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron%20Letters | Tetrahedron Letters is a weekly international journal for rapid publication of full original research papers in the field of organic chemistry. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.415.
Indexing
Tetrahedron Letters is indexed in:
References
See also
Tetrahedron
Tetrahe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounts%20of%20Chemical%20Research | Accounts of Chemical Research is a semi-monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society containing overviews of basic research and applications in chemistry and biochemistry. It was established in 1968 and the editor-in-chief is Cynthia J. Burrows (University of Utah).
Abstracting a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumaya%20Farhat%20Naser | Sumaya Farhat Naser (, born 11 June 1948 in Bir Zeit) is a Palestinian Christian peace activist in the West Bank.
She attended Talitha Kumi, a boarding school in Beit Jala which was founded by Lutheran deaconesses in the 19th century. After gaining her university entrance qualification, she studied biology, geography ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Kelsey%20%28cryptanalyst%29 | John Kelsey is a cryptographer who works at NIST. His research interests include cryptanalysis and design of symmetric cryptography primitives (block ciphers, stream ciphers, cryptographic hash functions, MACs), analysis and design of cryptographic protocols, cryptographic random number generation, electronic voting, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stieltjes%20moment%20problem | In mathematics, the Stieltjes moment problem, named after Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, seeks necessary and sufficient conditions for a sequence (m0, m1, m2, ...) to be of the form
for some measure μ. If such a function μ exists, one asks whether it is unique.
The essential difference between this and other well-known mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri%20Ivanenko | Dmitri Dmitrievich Ivanenko (, ; July 29, 1904 – December 30, 1994) was a Soviet theoretical physicist of Ukrainian origin who made great contributions to the physical science of the twentieth century, especially to nuclear physics, field theory, and gravitation theory. He worked in the Poltava Gravimetric Observatory ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut%20J%C3%B8rgen%20R%C3%B8ed%20%C3%98degaard | Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard (born 6 May 1966) is a Norwegian astronomer formerly employed as a media contact at the University of Oslo's Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics. He was the leader of the Norwegian Astronomical Society (2005–2008), and is also manager of the Harestua Solar Observatory.
His enthusiasm for as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne%20Wenger |
Étienne Charles Wenger (born 1952) is an educational theorist and practitioner, best known for his formulation (with Jean Lave) of the theory of situated cognition and his more recent work in the field of communities of practice.
Life
Having grown up in the French-speaking parts of Switzerland, Wenger achieved a B.S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royo | Royo is a surname of Spanish origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Andre Royo (born 1968), American actor, producer, and writer
Adela Ruiz de Royo (1943–2019), Spanish-born Panamanian mathematics academic and educator
Ángel Royo (born 1966), Spanish football manager
Antonio Royo Marín (1913–2005), Spani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate-permutable%20subgroup | In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a conjugate-permutable subgroup is a subgroup that commutes with all its conjugate subgroups. The term was introduced by Tuval Foguel in 1997 and arose in the context of the proof that for finite groups, every quasinormal subgroup is a subnormal subgroup.
Clearly, every qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Institute%20of%20Mathematics | The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) is one of eight mathematical institutes in the United States, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It was founded in 1994 by John Fry, co-founder of Fry's Electronics, and originally located in the Fry's Electronics store in San Jose, California. It was privately ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Pasachoff | Jay Myron Pasachoff (July 1, 1943 – November 20, 2022) was an American astronomer. Pasachoff was Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College and the author of textbooks and tradebooks in astronomy, physics, mathematics, and other sciences.
Biography
After the Bronx High School of Science, Pasachoff studi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal%20Francis%20Lane | Cornelius Francis "Neal" Lane (born August 22, 1938), is an American physicist and senior fellow in science and technology policy at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Malcolm Gillis University Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy Emeritus at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
He has served... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%89%A1 | The symbol ≡ (triple bar) is used in science and mathematics with several different meanings. It may refer to the following:
Mathematics
Identity (mathematics), identity of two mathematical expressions
Logical biconditional, in logic (if and only if)
Modular arithmetic, a ≡ b (mod m)
Equivalence relation, often d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Corey%E2%80%93Chaykovsky%20reaction | The Johnson–Corey–Chaykovsky reaction (sometimes referred to as the Corey–Chaykovsky reaction or CCR) is a chemical reaction used in organic chemistry for the synthesis of epoxides, aziridines, and cyclopropanes. It was discovered in 1961 by A. William Johnson and developed significantly by E. J. Corey and Michael Chay... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20T.%20Siegel | Robert T. Siegel (1928–2000) graduated from Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1948, and attained a D.Sc in 1952. He was professor of physics at the College of William and Mary from 1963 to 1998, and director of the Space Radiation Effects Laboratory, located on the site where the Thomas Jefferson Nation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom%20generator%20theorem | In computational complexity theory and cryptography, the existence of pseudorandom generators is related to the existence of one-way functions through a number of theorems, collectively referred to as the pseudorandom generator theorem.
Introduction
Pseudorandomness
A distribution is considered pseudorandom if no ef... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioacetal | In organosulfur chemistry, thioacetals are the sulfur (thio-) analogues of acetals (). There are two classes: the less-common monothioacetals, with the formula , and the dithioacetals, with the formula (symmetric dithioacetals) or (asymmetric dithioacetals).
The symmetric dithioacetals are relatively common. They a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2C-TFM | 2C-TFM is a psychedelic phenethylamine of the 2C family. It was first synthesized in the laboratory of David E. Nichols. It has also been called 2C-CF3, a name derived from the Para-trifluoromethyl group it contains.
Chemistry
2C-TFM is a code that represents 4-trifluoromethyl-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine. The full... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-vector | In mathematics and physics, k-vector may refer to:
A wave vector k
Crystal momentum
A multivector of grade k, also called a k-vector, the dual of a differential k-form
An element of a k-dimensional vector space, especially a four-vector used in relativity to mean a quantity related to four-dimensional spacetime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlebox | A middlebox is a computer networking device that transforms, inspects, filters, and manipulates traffic for purposes other than packet forwarding. Examples of middleboxes include firewalls, network address translators (NATs), load balancers, and deep packet inspection (DPI) devices.
UCLA computer science professor Lix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylwester%20Porowski | Sylwester Andrzej Porowski (born April 7, 1938 in Bierzyn, Lower Silesian Voivodeship), is a Polish physicist specializing in solid-state and high pressure physics. He is the Co-Director and Board Member of The Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
In 2001 Professor Porowski's team ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktor%20Kemula | Wiktor Kemula (born November 6, 1902 in Izmail – October 17, 1985 in Warsaw) was a Polish chemist, electrochemist, and polarographist. He greatly contributed to the development of electroanalytical chemistry, particularly polarography. He developed a hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE).
1902 births
1985 deaths
Peopl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marceli%20Nencki | Wilhelm Marceli Nencki (15 January 1847 in Boczki, Zduńska Wola County – 14 October 1901 in Saint Petersburg) was a Polish chemist and doctor.
Work
Nencki's main scientific interest concentrated on urea synthesis, the chemistry of purines and biological oxidation of aromatic compounds. He was also interested in the st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Mathematical%20Sciences%20%28Cambridge%29 | The Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at the University of Cambridge houses the university's Faculty of Mathematics, the Isaac Newton Institute, and the Betty and Gordon Moore Library. It is situated on Wilberforce Road, on a site which was formerly a St John's College playing field, and has been leased by St John... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faculty%20of%20Mathematics%2C%20University%20of%20Cambridge | The Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge comprises the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). It is housed in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences site in West Cambridge, alongside the Isaac Newton In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadore%20Nabi | Isadore Nabi (sometimes Isidore Nabi or Isador Nabi) was a pseudonym used by a group of scientists including Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins, Robert MacArthur, and Leigh van Valen in the 1960s. Inspired by the work of Nicolas Bourbaki, they allegedly hoped to create a unified approach to evolutionary biology. However,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colegio%20de%20Bi%C3%B3logos%20del%20Per%C3%BA | Colegio de Biólogos del Perú or College of Biologists of Peru is a professional association in Peru. This college accepts only graduates in biology that have opted to be licensed through a special inter-university procedure called Licenciatura. It was founded in 1972 and its creation was sanctioned by Law.
According... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer%20Academy | Pioneer Academy is an independent college-preparatory school for PK-12 grades located in Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. The Pioneer Academy curriculum focuses on studies of science, mathematics, cultural studies, and language. The school was founded in 1999 and moved from Clifton to its Wayne camp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20descent | In statistics and machine learning, double descent is the phenomenon where a statistical model with a small number of parameters and a model with an extremely large number of parameters have a small error, but a model whose number of parameters is about the same as the number of data points used to train the model will... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phred | Phred may refer to:
Phred (software), a computer program used in molecular biology
Phred quality score, a term used in molecular biology
Phred (Doonesbury), a character from the comic strip Doonesbury
Phred on Your Head Show, a children's television show
The URL with Phred Show, a spin-off of the above
See also
Fred ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20folding%20algorithm | In signal processing, the fast folding algorithm (Staelin, 1969) is an efficient algorithm for the detection of approximately-periodic events within time series data. It computes superpositions of the signal modulo various window sizes simultaneously.
The FFA is best known for its use in the detection of pulsars, as p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifactor%20dimensionality%20reduction | Multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) is a statistical approach, also used in machine learning automatic approaches, for detecting and characterizing combinations of attributes or independent variables that interact to influence a dependent or class variable. MDR was designed specifically to identify nonadditive i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Jewish%20American%20computer%20scientists | This is a list of notable Jewish American computer scientists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
Hal Abelson, artificial intelligence
Leonard Adleman, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)
Adi Shamir, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)
Paul Baran, Polish-b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Bogomolny | Alexander Bogomolny (January 4, 1948 July 7, 2018) was a Soviet-born Israeli-American mathematician. He was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Iowa, and formerly research fellow at the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, senior instructor at Hebrew University and software consultant at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%27s%20identity | In mathematics, Abel's identity (also called Abel's formula or Abel's differential equation identity) is an equation that expresses the Wronskian of two solutions of a homogeneous second-order linear ordinary differential equation in terms of a coefficient of the original differential equation.
The relation can be gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2C-B-FLY | 2C-B-FLY is a psychedelic phenethylamine and designer drug of the 2C family. It was first synthesized in 1996 by Aaron Monte, Professor of Chemistry at UW-La Crosse.
Chemistry
2C-B-FLY is 8-bromo-2,3,6,7-benzo-dihydro-difuran-ethylamine. The full name of the chemical is 2-(8-bromo-2,3,6,7-tetrahydrofuro[2,3-f] [1]ben... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallome | In biochemistry, the metallome is the distribution of metal ions in a cellular compartment. The term was coined in analogy with proteome as metallomics is the study of metallome: the "comprehensive analysis of the entirety of metal and metalloid species within a cell or tissue type". Therefore, metallomics can be con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPK%20coloring | In chemistry, the CPK coloring (for Corey–Pauling–Koltun) is a popular color convention for distinguishing atoms of different chemical elements in molecular models.
History
August Wilhelm von Hofmann was apparently the first to introduce molecular models into organic chemistry, following August Kekule's introduction ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istituto%20di%20Radioastronomia%20di%20Bologna | The Istituto di Radioastronomia di Bologna (Institute for Radio Astronomy of Bologna) is one of research facilities of the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (National Institute for Astrophysics). Staff conduct research in astronomy, physics, engineering and information science. It was previously part of the Con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20EC%20numbers%20%28EC%201%29 | This list contains a list of EC numbers for the first group, EC 1, oxidoreductases, placed in numerical order as determined by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. All official information is tabulated at the website of the committee. The database is developed an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Mathematical%20Olympiad | The British Mathematical Olympiad (BMO) forms part of the selection process for the UK International Mathematical Olympiad team and for other international maths competitions, including the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad, the Romanian Master of Mathematics and Sciences, and the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20E.%20L.%20Peck | John Edward Lancelot Peck (14 August 1918 – 6 November 2013) was the first permanent Head of Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He remained the Head of Department from 1969 to 1977.
He was one of the editors of the original Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68 and a cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional%20symmetry%20%28time%20series%29 | In statistical analysis of time series and in signal processing, directional symmetry is a statistical measure of a model's performance in predicting the direction of change, positive or negative, of a time series from one time period to the next.
Definition
Given a time series with values at times and a model that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry%20Belyayev%20%28zoologist%29 | Dmitry Konstantinovich Belyayev (Russian: Дми́трий Константи́нович Беля́ев, 17 July 1917 – 14 November 1985) was a Soviet geneticist and academician who served as director of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics (IC&G) of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, from 1959 to 1985. His decades-long effort to breed d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9pin%27s%20test | In mathematics, Pépin's test is a primality test, which can be used to determine whether a Fermat number is prime. It is a variant of Proth's test. The test is named for a French mathematician, Théophile Pépin.
Description of the test
Let be the nth Fermat number. Pépin's test states that for n > 0,
is prime if and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20modulus | Complex modulus may refer to:
Modulus of complex number, in mathematics, the norm or absolute value, of a complex number:
Dynamic modulus, in materials engineering, the ratio of stress to strain under vibratory conditions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagjit%20Singh%20%28writer%29 | Jagjit Singh (1912–2002) was an Indian writer and science popularizer. In college he excelled in mathematics courses, receiving his MA in Mathematics from the Government College, Lahore. Yet he made his career as an important director of India's railways, applying his mathematical skills there. Upon retirement, he se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20Genome%20Project | The Music Genome Project is an effort to "capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level" using various attributes to describe songs and mathematics to connect them together into an interactive map. The Music Genome Project covers five music genres: Pop/Rock, Hip-Hop/Electronica, Jazz, World Music, and Clas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter%20Classification%20Database | The Transporter Classification Database (or TCDB) is an International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB)-approved classification system for membrane transport proteins, including ion channels.
Classification
The upper level of classification and a few examples of proteins with known 3D structure:
1. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20de%20Rothschild | Alfred Charles Freiherr de Rothschild, CVO (20 July 1842 – 31 January 1918), was the second son of Lionel Freiherr de Rothschild and Charlotte Freifrau von Rothschild of the Rothschild family.
Education
As a young man, Alfred attended King's College School, Wimbledon, and subsequently Trinity College, Cambridge, where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition%20problem | In number theory and computer science, the partition problem, or number partitioning, is the task of deciding whether a given multiset S of positive integers can be partitioned into two subsets S1 and S2 such that the sum of the numbers in S1 equals the sum of the numbers in S2. Although the partition problem is NP-com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylisopropyltryptamine | Ethylisopropyltryptamine (EiPT) is a chemical of the tryptamine family that and produces psychedelic and hallucinogenic effects. It was probably first synthesized by American psychopharmacologist, Alexander Shulgin.
Chemistry
EiPT is short for N-ethyl-N-isopropyl-tryptamine. The full chemical name of this structure... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical%20Information%20Project | The Technical Information Project (TIP) was an early database project focused on the scholarly physics literature. Its "most unique feature" was its use bibliographic coupling, a novel way to search for related documents. The TIP included over 25,000 records.
Meyer Mike Kessler began developing the TIP at MIT in April... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gast%C3%B3n%20Pons%20Muzzo | Gastón Pons Muzzo (circa 1922 – January 6, 2004) was a Peruvian chemist.
He was born in Tacna, Peru and joined National University of San Marcos staff in the 1960s to lecture general chemistry laboratory at the Department of Chemistry. He also was known for his teaching of physical chemistry and for his accompanying t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20computer%20science | The history of computer science began long before the modern discipline of computer science, usually appearing in forms like mathematics or physics. Developments in previous centuries alluded to the discipline that we now know as computer science. This progression, from mechanical inventions and mathematical theories t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%2C4%2C5-Trimethoxyphenethylamine | 2,4,5-Trimethoxyphenethylamine (2C-O or 2C-OMe) or is a phenethylamine of the 2C family and was first synthesized by Jansen in 1931. It is a positional isomer of the drug mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxy).
Chemistry
2C-O is a member of a class of chemical compounds commonly known as phenethylamines. Its full chemical nam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20chemical%20engineering | Chemical engineering is a discipline that was developed out of those practicing "industrial chemistry" in the late 19th century. Before the Industrial Revolution (18th century), industrial chemicals and other consumer products such as soap were mainly produced through batch processing. Batch processing is labour-intens... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Orme%20Masson | Sir David Orme Masson KBE FRS FRSE (13 January 1858 – 10 August 1937) was a scientist born in England who emigrated to Australia to become Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne. He is known for his work on the explosive compound nitroglycerin.
Early life
Masson was born in Hampstead (near London), the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20automaton | A learning automaton is one type of machine learning algorithm studied since 1970s. Learning automata select their current action based on past experiences from the environment. It will fall into the range of reinforcement learning if the environment is stochastic and a Markov decision process (MDP) is used.
History
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