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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-Tang%20Ho
Chi-Tang Ho (; born 1944) is a Chinese-born American food scientist. He received his PhD in organic chemistry in 1974 and started working as a researcher and professor in the food science department at Rutgers University. He is now director of the food science graduate program at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, Ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace%20Webster
Horace Webster (Hartford, Connecticut, September 21, 1794 - Geneva, New York, July 12, 1871) was an American educator who graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1818. Webster remained at West Point as a mathematics professor until 1825, leaving with the rank of first lieutenant. He then moved to Geneva Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-bot
The Microbric I-Bot is a small robot that was distributed as a build-it-yourself kit by the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper in South Australia in November-December 2005. It is designed to be used as an introduction to electronics and to teach robotics. The I-Bot, now discontinued, was created by Microbric, manufactured ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Mirsky
Alfred Ezra Mirsky (October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1974) was an American pioneer in molecular biology. Mirsky graduated from Harvard College in 1922, after which he studied for two years at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons until 1924 when he moved to the University of Cambridge on a US National ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioan%20Cantacuzino
Ioan I. Cantacuzino (; also Ion Cantacuzino; 25 November 1863 – 14 January 1934) was a renowned Romanian physician and bacteriologist, a professor at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy of the University of Bucharest, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy. He established the fields of microbiology and experiment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20Nationale%20Sup%C3%A9rieure%20d%27%C3%89lectrochimie%20et%20d%27%C3%89lectrom%C3%A9tallurgie%20de%20Grenoble
The École Nationale Supérieure d'Électrochimie et d'Électrométallurgie de Grenoble, or ENSEEG, was one of the French Grandes écoles of engineering (engineering schools). It has been created in 1921 under the name Institut d’électrochimie et d’électrométallurgie (IEE) (Institute of Electrochemistry and Electrometallurg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem%20%28disambiguation%29
Post-mortem (meaning "after death") is short for "post-mortem examination", or autopsy, an examination of a corpse in order to determine cause of death. Post-mortem may also refer to: Science and technology Post-mortem chemistry, a branch of chemistry for studying of chemical and biochemical phenomena in a cadaver ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episulfide
In organic chemistry, episulfides are a class of organic compounds that contain a saturated, heterocyclic ring consisting of two carbon atoms and one sulfur atom. It is the sulfur analogue of an epoxide or aziridine. They are also known as thiiranes, olefin sulfides, thioalkylene oxides, and thiacyclopropanes. Episulfi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28Bis%28trifluoroacetoxy%29iodo%29benzene
(Bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodo)benzene, , is a hypervalent iodine compound used as a reagent in organic chemistry. It can be used to carry out the Hofmann rearrangement under acidic conditions. Preparation The syntheses of all aryl hypervalent iodine compounds start from iodobenzene. The compound can be prepared by reac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20speed%20limit%20theorems
Quantum speed limit theorems are quantum mechanics theorems concerning the orthogonalization interval, the minimum time for a quantum system to evolve between two orthogonal states. Consider an initial pure quantum state expressed as a superposition of its energy eigenstates . If the state is let to evolve for an int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace%20Testing%20Alliance
Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) is a defunct aerospace engineering company in the United States of America. It was the prime contractor of the US Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC), in Tullahoma, Tennessee from 2003 until 2016. Launched in 2003, ATA was a joint operation of Jacobs Sverdrup, Gene...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20measure
In mathematics, a regular measure on a topological space is a measure for which every measurable set can be approximated from above by open measurable sets and from below by compact measurable sets. Definition Let (X, T) be a topological space and let Σ be a σ-algebra on X. Let μ be a measure on (X, Σ). A measurabl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield%20%28engineering%29
In materials science and engineering, the yield point is the point on a stress-strain curve that indicates the limit of elastic behavior and the beginning of plastic behavior. Below the yield point, a material will deform elastically and will return to its original shape when the applied stress is removed. Once the yie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighting%20control%20system
A lighting control system incorporates communication between various system inputs and outputs related to lighting control with the use of one or more central computing devices. Lighting control systems are widely used on both indoor and outdoor lighting of commercial, industrial, and residential spaces. Lighting con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endeavour%20College
Endeavour College is a Lutheran high school in Mawson Lakes, a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Subjects taught include Art & Design, Drama, Music, English, German, Japanese, Mathematics, Physical Education, History, Business Studies, Science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology), Material Technology, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky%20transform
In applied mathematics, the Joukowsky transform (sometimes transliterated Joukovsky, Joukowski or Zhukovsky) is a conformal map historically used to understand some principles of airfoil design. It is named after Nikolai Zhukovsky, who published it in 1910. The transform is where is a complex variable in the new ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation
Activation, in chemistry and biology, is the process whereby something is prepared or excited for a subsequent reaction. Chemistry In chemistry, "activation" refers to the reversible transition of a molecule into a nearly identical chemical or physical state, with the defining characteristic being that this resultant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envelope%20theorem
In mathematics and economics, the envelope theorem is a major result about the differentiability properties of the value function of a parameterized optimization problem. As we change parameters of the objective, the envelope theorem shows that, in a certain sense, changes in the optimizer of the objective do not contr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale%20analysis%20%28mathematics%29
Scale analysis (or order-of-magnitude analysis) is a powerful tool used in the mathematical sciences for the simplification of equations with many terms. First the approximate magnitude of individual terms in the equations is determined. Then some negligibly small terms may be ignored. Example: vertical momentum in sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular%20equilibrium
In nuclear physics, secular equilibrium is a situation in which the quantity of a radioactive isotope remains constant because its production rate (e.g., due to decay of a parent isotope) is equal to its decay rate. In radioactive decay Secular equilibrium can occur in a radioactive decay chain only if the half-life ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecoline
Arecoline () is a nicotinic acid-based mild parasympathomimetic stimulant alkaloid found in the areca nut, the fruit of the areca palm (Areca catechu). It is an odourless oily liquid. It can bring a sense of enhanced alertness and energy, euphoria and relaxation. The psychoactive effects are comparable to that of nicot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage%20Ridge%20School
Sage Ridge is the only non-sectarian college preparatory school in the metropolitan area of the U.S. city of Reno, Nevada. It offers a diverse academic environment for grades 3 through 12 through the teaching of various mathematics, science, English, history, Spanish and Latin classes. The curriculum is supplemented wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepwise%20reaction
In chemistry, a stepwise reaction (also called an overall reaction, complex reaction, and multistep reaction, among others) is a chemical reaction with one or more reaction intermediates, which by definition involves at least two consecutive elementary reactions. In a stepwise reaction, not all bonds are broken and fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Connell%20%28biochemist%29
George Edward Connell, (June 20, 1930 – March 13, 2015) was a Canadian academic. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Connell studied at Upper Canada College in Toronto and graduated in 1947. He then attended the University of Toronto, earning a BA in biochemistry in 1951 and a PhD in 1955. Connell worked at the Univer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-value
D-value may refer to: D-value (microbiology) - the decimal reduction time, the time required at a certain temperature to kill 90% of the organisms being studied D-value (meteorology) in meteorology refers to the deviation of actual altitude along a constant pressure surface from the standard atmosphere altitude of tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure%20Galaxy%21
Treasure Galaxy! is an educational computer game published by The Learning Company in 1994 for both Windows and Macintosh. It is aimed at children ages 5 to 9 and is intended to teach children reading, basic mathematics and logic skills. Treasure Galaxy is part of the Super Seekers games. Background After being remove...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20astronomy
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to astronomy: Astronomy – studies the universe beyond Earth, including its formation and development, and the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects (such as galaxies, planets, etc.) and phenomena that originate ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acylal
Acylals in organic chemistry are a group of chemical compounds sharing a functional group with the general structure RCH(OOCR)2. Acylals are obtained by reaction of carbonyls with acetic anhydride or other acid anhydrides and a suitable catalyst, for instance with sulfated zirconia at low temperatures when used as prot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azoxy%20compounds
In chemistry, azoxy compounds are a group of organic compounds sharing a common functional group with the general structure . They are considered N-oxides of azo compounds. Azoxy compounds are 1,3-dipoles and cycloadd to double bonds. Most azoxy-containing compounds have aryl substituents. Preparation Azoxybenzene and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20scientist
A biomedical scientist is a scientist trained in biology, particularly in the context of medical laboratory sciences or laboratory medicine. These scientists work to gain knowledge on the main principles of how the human body works and to find new ways to cure or treat disease by developing advanced diagnostic tools or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%20Beason
Doug Beason (born 1953) is an American scientist and science fiction author. He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977 with a dual major in physics and math. He started his first novel while at the Academy after returning there as an officer in the 1980s to teach physics. He is a retired Air Forc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred%20Wagner
Manfred Hermann Wagner (born 1948) is the author of Wagner model and the molecular stress function theory for polymer rheology. He is a Professor for Polymer engineering and Polymer physics at the Technical University of Berlin. Manfred was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1948. He obtained his PhD in Chemical engineerin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20analysis
Semantic analysis may refer to: Language Semantic analysis (linguistics) Semantic analysis (computational) Semantic analysis (machine learning) Semantic Analysis (book), 1960, by Paul Ziff, on aesthetics/philosophy of language Other ontologies Semantic analytics of organisations Semantic analysis (knowledge represent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rng%20%28algebra%29
In mathematics, and more specifically in abstract algebra, a rng (or non-unital ring or pseudo-ring) is an algebraic structure satisfying the same properties as a ring, but without assuming the existence of a multiplicative identity. The term rng (IPA: ) is meant to suggest that it is a ring without i, that is, without...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Cassidy%20%28composer%29
Patrick Cassidy (born 1956) is an Irish orchestral, choral, and film score composer. Early life and education Cassidy was born in Claremorris, County Mayo, Ireland. He received a BSC in Applied Mathematics from the University of Limerick in 1985 and supported his early compositional activities with a day job as a stat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plume%20%28fluid%20dynamics%29
In hydrodynamics, a plume or a column is a vertical body of one fluid moving through another. Several effects control the motion of the fluid, including momentum (inertia), diffusion and buoyancy (density differences). Pure jets and pure plumes define flows that are driven entirely by momentum and buoyancy effects, r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity%20of%20simultaneity
In physics, the relativity of simultaneity is the concept that distant simultaneity – whether two spatially separated events occur at the same time – is not absolute, but depends on the observer's reference frame. This possibility was raised by mathematician Henri Poincaré in 1900, and thereafter became a central idea ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergan%2C%20Inc.
Allergan, Inc. was an American global pharmaceutical company focused on eye care, neurosciences, medical dermatology, medical aesthetics, breast enhancement, obesity intervention and urologics. Allergan, Inc. was formed in 1948, incorporated in 1950 and became a public company in 1970. It ceased operation in 2015 when ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscopic%20reversibility
The principle of microscopic reversibility in physics and chemistry is twofold: First, it states that the microscopic detailed dynamics of particles and fields is time-reversible because the microscopic equations of motion are symmetric with respect to inversion in time (T-symmetry); Second, it relates to the statist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%E2%80%93Lee%20model
In financial mathematics, the Ho-Lee model is a short-rate model widely used in the pricing of bond options, swaptions and other interest rate derivatives, and in modeling future interest rates. It was developed in 1986 by Thomas Ho and Sang Bin Lee. Under this model, the short rate follows a normal process: The mode...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20fission%20and%20fusion
In computer science, loop fission (or loop distribution) is a compiler optimization in which a loop is broken into multiple loops over the same index range with each taking only a part of the original loop's body. The goal is to break down a large loop body into smaller ones to achieve better utilization of locality of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassan%20Sanei
Sassan Sanei (born January 7, 1973) is a Canadian engineer. An intense fascination with mathematics, physics, and computing from an early age led him eventually to attend the University of Waterloo, where he received the Bachelor of Applied Science degree with first-class honours in Electrical Engineering and the Bach...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Coulter
Stanley Coulter (June 2, 1853 – June 26, 1943) was an American biologist, brother of J. M. Coulter, born at Ningpo, China, and educated at Hanover College. In 1887 he was appointed professor of biology at Purdue. His publications include more than 125 pamphlets on nature study, scientific researches, sketches, and al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Henry%20Chittenden
Russell Henry Chittenden (18 February 1856 – 26 December 1943) was an American physiological chemist. He conducted pioneering research in the biochemistry of digestion and nutrition. Early life and education He was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1856, graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in 1875,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20R.%20Philip
John Robert Philip AO FAA FRS (18 January 1927, Ballarat26 June 1999, Amsterdam) was an Australian soil physicist and hydrologist, internationally recognised for his contributions to the understanding of movement of water, energy and gases. While he never performed his own experimental work, he was recognised for his s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo%20A.%20Richards
Lorenzo Adolph Richards (April 24, 1904 – March 12, 1993) or known as Ren was one of the 20th century's most influential minds in the field of soil physics. Biography Early life Lorenzo A. Richards was born on April 24, 1904, in the town of Fielding, Utah, and received a B.S. and M.A. degree in physics from Utah Stat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callan%E2%80%93Symanzik%20equation
In physics, the Callan–Symanzik equation is a differential equation describing the evolution of the n-point correlation functions under variation of the energy scale at which the theory is defined and involves the beta function of the theory and the anomalous dimensions. As an example, for a quantum field theory with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Morris%20%28physicist%29
Michael S. Morris, is a physics professor at Butler University. He earned a PhD in physics from Caltech under the supervision of Kip Thorne. Among his nine published peer-reviewed papers, his most notable theoretical contribution is his pioneering analysis of time travel through traversable wormholes, coauthored in 198...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine%20hull
In mathematics, the affine hull or affine span of a set S in Euclidean space Rn is the smallest affine set containing S, or equivalently, the intersection of all affine sets containing S. Here, an affine set may be defined as the translation of a vector subspace. The affine hull aff(S) of S is the set of all affine c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein%20distance
In information theory and computer science, the Damerau–Levenshtein distance (named after Frederick J. Damerau and Vladimir I. Levenshtein) is a string metric for measuring the edit distance between two sequences. Informally, the Damerau–Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of operations (consis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Nelson%20Cole
Frank Nelson Cole (September 20, 1861 – May 26, 1926) was an American mathematician. Life and works Cole was born in Ashland, Massachusetts. When he was very young, the family moved to Marlborough, Massachusetts where he attended school and graduated from Marlborough High School. He was then educated at Harvard, whe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kainji%20Dam
Kainji Dam is a dam across the Niger River in Niger State of Central Nigeria. Construction of the dam was carried out by Impregilo (a consortium of Italian Civil Engineering Contractors) to designs by Joint Consultants, Balfour Beatty and Nedeco, and began in 1964 to be completed in 1968. The total cost was estimated a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20theory
In theoretical chemistry, Marcus theory is a theory originally developed by Rudolph A. Marcus, starting in 1956, to explain the rates of electron transfer reactions – the rate at which an electron can move or jump from one chemical species (called the electron donor) to another (called the electron acceptor). It was or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molien%27s%20formula
In mathematics, Molien's formula computes the generating function attached to a linear representation of a group G on a finite-dimensional vector space, that counts the homogeneous polynomials of a given total degree that are invariants for G. It is named for Theodor Molien. Precisely, it says: given a finite-dimensio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Georg%20Sulzer
Johann Georg Sulzer (; 16 October 1720 in Winterthur – 27 February 1779 in Berlin) was a Swiss professor of Mathematics, who later on moved on to the field of electricity. He was a Wolffian philosopher and director of the philosophical section of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, and translator of David Hume's An Enquiry...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanoil%20Bacaloglu
Emanoil Bacaloglu (; – 30 August 1891) was a Wallachian and Romanian mathematician, physicist and chemist. Born in Bucharest and of Greek origin, he studied physics and mathematics in Paris and Leipzig, later becoming a professor at the University of Bucharest and, in 1879, a member of the Romanian Academy. Considere...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae%20Vasilescu-Karpen
Nicolae Vasilescu Karpen (December 10 (O.S.)/December 22 (N.S.), 1870, Craiova – March 2, 1964, Bucharest) was a Romanian engineer and physicist, who worked in telegraphy and telephony and had achievements in mechanical engineering, elasticity, thermodynamics, long-distance telephony, electrochemistry, and civil engine...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moo-Young%20Han
Moo-Young Han (November 30, 1934 – May 15, 2016) was a South Korean-born American physicist. He was a professor of physics at Duke University. Along with Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago, he is credited with introducing the SU(3) symmetry of quarks, today known as the color charge. The color charge is the ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20Barbu
Ion Barbu (, pen name of Dan Barbilian; 18 March 1895 –11 August 1961) was a Romanian mathematician and poet. His name is associated with the Mathematics Subject Classification number 51C05, which is a major posthumous recognition reserved only to pioneers of investigations in an area of mathematical inquiry. Early li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oded%20Goldreich
Oded Goldreich (; b. 1957) is a professor of computer science at the faculty of mathematics and computer science of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His research interests lie within the theory of computation and are, specifically, the interplay of randomness and computation, the foundations of cryptography, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venki%20Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is a British-American structural biologist. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes. Since 1999, he has worked as a group leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laborator...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction%20of%20order
Reduction of order (or d’Alembert reduction) is a technique in mathematics for solving second-order linear ordinary differential equations. It is employed when one solution is known and a second linearly independent solution is desired. The method also applies to n-th order equations. In this case the ansatz will yi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian%20Lalescu
Traian Lalescu (; 12 July 1882 – 15 June 1929) was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Life He went to the Carol I Hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20D.%20White
Tim D. White (born August 24, 1950) is an American paleoanthropologist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for leading the team which discovered Ardi, the type specimen of Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old likely human ancestor. Prior to that disco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt%20Roux
Benoît Roux is an Amgen Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Chicago. He has previously taught at University of Montreal and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Benoît Roux was a recipient of the 1998 Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, awarded by the Royal Society of Can...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford%20Memorial%20Medal
The Rutherford Memorial Medal is an award for research in the fields of physics and chemistry by the Royal Society of Canada. It was dedicated to the memory of Ernest Rutherford. It is awarded once for physics and once for chemistry each year, "for outstanding research", when there is a suitable candidate. Recipients ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing%20%28materials%20science%29
In metallurgy and materials science, annealing is a heat treatment that alters the physical and sometimes chemical properties of a material to increase its ductility and reduce its hardness, making it more workable. It involves heating a material above its recrystallization temperature, maintaining a suitable temperatu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20method
In machine learning, kernel machines are a class of algorithms for pattern analysis, whose best known member is the support-vector machine (SVM). These methods involve using linear classifiers to solve nonlinear problems. The general task of pattern analysis is to find and study general types of relations (for example ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Treatise%20on%20the%20Binomial%20Theorem
A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem is a fictional work of mathematics by the young Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind and archenemy of the detective Sherlock Holmes in the fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle. The actual title of the treatise is never given in the stories; Holmes simply refers to "a treatise up...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%20operator
The Coulomb operator, named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, is a quantum mechanical operator used in the field of quantum chemistry. Specifically, it is a term found in the Fock operator. It is defined as: where is the one-electron Coulomb operator defining the repulsion resulting from electron j, is the one-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange%20operator
In quantum mechanics, the exchange operator , also known as permutation operator, is a quantum mechanical operator that acts on states in Fock space. The exchange operator acts by switching the labels on any two identical particles described by the joint position quantum state . Since the particles are identical, the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20%28Ayumi%20Hamasaki%20song%29
"You" is the second single by Ayumi Hamasaki. It was released on June 10, 1998. Track listing "You" "You" (acoustic version) "You" (instrumental) Re-release This single was re-released on February 28, 2001, featuring four new songs. Track listing "You" "You" (acoustic version) "Wishing" (Taku's Chemistry mix) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop%20Guertin%20High%20School
Bishop Guertin (BG) is a college preparatory independent private Roman Catholic high school in Nashua, New Hampshire. Named for Bishop George Albert Guertin (1869-1931), it was founded by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in 1963. Scholastics Subjects are divided into nine departments: English, Social Studies, Computer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Prize%20for%20Biology
The is an annual award for "outstanding contribution to the advancement of research in fundamental biology." The Prize, although it is not always awarded to a biologist, is one of the most prestigious honours a natural scientist can receive. There are no restrictions on the nationality of the recipient. Past laureate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20quantum%20chemistry
Direct quantum chemistry covers a set of quantum chemical methods not using the Born-Oppenheimer representation. Direct quantum chemistry considers the motion of the nuclei and the electrons on the same time scales. The method therefore considers the molecular Hamiltonian as a whole without trying to solve separately ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density%20on%20a%20manifold
In mathematics, and specifically differential geometry, a density is a spatially varying quantity on a differentiable manifold that can be integrated in an intrinsic manner. Abstractly, a density is a section of a certain line bundle, called the density bundle. An element of the density bundle at x is a function that ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillclimbing%20%28disambiguation%29
Hillclimbing is a motorsport Hillclimbing may also refer to: Hillclimbing (cycling) Hillclimbing (railway) Hill climbing, an optimization algorithm in mathematics See also Hillwalking Mountaineering Hilcrhyme, a Japanese hip-hop duo Newport Antique Auto Hill Climb, a racing event in Newport, Indiana Hill Climb Racin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1ri%20Stef%C3%A1nsson
Kári Stefánsson (or Kari Stefansson; born 6 April 1949) is an Icelandic neurologist and founder and CEO of Reykjavik-based biopharmaceutical company deCODE genetics. In Iceland he has pioneered the use of population-scale genetics to understand variation in the sequence of the human genome. His work has focused on how ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20William%20Edmondson
Thomas William Edmondson, Ph. D., (1869– 5 November 1938) was an Anglo-American mathematician, born at Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England. He graduated from the University of London, studied at Cambridge, and also at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. He was an associate professor at NYU from 1896 to 1905, and a pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Nasmyth
Kim Ashley Nasmyth (born 18 October 1952) is an English geneticist, the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, former scientific director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), and former head of the Department of Biochemistry, University of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20W.%20Bonner%20Prize
The Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics is an annual prize awarded by the American Physical Society's Division of Nuclear Physics. Established in 1964, and currently consisting of $10,000 and a certificate, the Bonner Prize was founded in memory of physicist Tom W. Bonner. The aim of the prize, as stated by the Amer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHC
IHC may refer to: Medicine Immunohistochemistry Intrahepatic cholestasis Science and technology Indirectly Heated Cathode, a type of hot cathode used in vacuum electronics tubes Intelligent Home Control, home automation and control system FAT IHC OEM label, a Windows 9x signature in OEM labels of FAT volumes ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumen%20%28anatomy%29
In biology, a lumen (: lumina) is the inside space of a tubular structure, such as an artery or intestine. It comes . It can refer to: the interior of a vessel, such as the central space in an artery, vein or capillary through which blood flows the interior of the gastrointestinal tract the pathways of the bronchi in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amine%20oxide
In chemistry, an amine oxide, also known as an amine N-oxide or simply N-oxide, is a chemical compound that contains the functional group , a nitrogen-oxygen coordinate covalent bond with three additional hydrogen and/or substituent-group side chains attached to N. Sometimes it is written as →O or, alternatively, as . ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMN
Amn or AMN may refer to: Biology Alpha motor neuron (α-MNs), large lower motor neurons of the brainstem and spinal cord Amnionless, a gene for a protein necessary for efficient absorption of vitamin B12 Adrenoleukodystrophy, a rare X-linked genetic disease Media companies AMN (TV station), in Griffith, New South ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ertl
Ertl may refer to: People Alayna Ertl (2010–2016), kidnapping and murder victim Gerhard Ertl (born 1936), the 2007 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Hans Ertl (cameraman) (1908–2000), German cameraman active during the 1930s Hans Ertl (ice hockey) (1909– ?), Austrian ice hockey player Harald Ertl (1948–1982...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijke%20Vos
Maria Bernadina (Marijke) Vos (born 4 May 1957 in Leidschendam) is a Dutch politician. Career Pre-political career Vos's father was a judge in 's-Hertogenbosch. Her grandfather, A.H.J. Engels was member of parliament for the Roman-Catholic RKSP. After finishing gymnasium-b in 's-Hertogenbosch in 1975, Vos went on to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%2061131
IEC 61131 is an IEC standard for programmable controllers. It was first published in 1993; the current (third) edition dates from 2013. It was known as IEC 1131 before the change in numbering system by IEC. The parts of the IEC 61131 standard are prepared and maintained by working group 7, programmable control systems,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus%20%28disambiguation%29
Platypus is the English common name of the Australian egg-laying mammal of action which in science language is called the Ornithorhynchus anatinus. Platypus may also refer to: Biology Platypus (beetle), a genus of ambrosia beetle in the subfamily Platypodinae of the weevil family Curculionidae Platypus, a taxonomic s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six%20Arts
The Six Arts formed the basis of education in ancient Chinese culture. These were made and practiced by the Confucians. History During the Zhou dynasty (1122–256 BCE), students were required to master the "liù yì" (六藝) (Six Arts): Rites (禮) Music (樂) Archery (射) Chariotry or Equestrianism (御) Calligraphy (書) Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective%20sensation
Affective sensation is an occurrence of sensation accompanied with a strong compulsion to act on it. It refers, mostly in neuroscience, to the emotional sensibility in response to affective stimuli of a particular valence. It is transmitted via the spinothalamic tract through the spinal cord, and can be associated with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe%20David%20Tendler
Moshe David Tendler (August 7, 1926September 28, 2021) was an American rabbi, professor of biology and expert in medical ethics. He served as chairman of the biology department at Yeshiva University. Biography Moshe David Tendler was born in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City on August 7, 1926. He recei...
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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the distinct but related technical disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The term is typically used in the context of education policy or curriculum choices in schools. It has implications for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-module
In mathematics, a D-module is a module over a ring D of differential operators. The major interest of such D-modules is as an approach to the theory of linear partial differential equations. Since around 1970, D-module theory has been built up, mainly as a response to the ideas of Mikio Sato on algebraic analysis, and ...
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In mathematics, specifically in group theory, residue-class-wise affine groups are certain permutation groups acting on (the integers), whose elements are bijective residue-class-wise affine mappings. A mapping is called residue-class-wise affine if there is a nonzero integer such that the restrictions of to the r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCC%20%28company%29
NCC AB is a Swedish construction company, one of the largest in the Nordic region with annual revenues (2022) of 54 billion SEK and about 12 500 employees. NCC builds residential properties, industrial facilities and public buildings, roads, civil engineering structures and other types of infrastructure. NCC also offe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiunitary%20operator
In mathematics, an antiunitary transformation is a bijective antilinear map between two complex Hilbert spaces such that for all and in , where the horizontal bar represents the complex conjugate. If additionally one has then is called an antiunitary operator. Antiunitary operators are important in quantum theo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt%20Ovrut
Burt Ovrut is an American theoretical physicist best known for his work on heterotic string theory. He is currently Professor of Theoretical High Energy Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. Ovrut earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Chicago in 1978. His doctoral advisors were Benjamin W. Lee and Yoic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique%20identifier
A unique identifier (UID) is an identifier that is guaranteed to be unique among all identifiers used for those objects and for a specific purpose. The concept was formalized early in the development of computer science and information systems. In general, it was associated with an atomic data type. In relational dat...
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FRSC can refer to: Federal Road Safety Corps of Nigeria Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry Free Radio Santa Cruz Fuel-rich staged combustion