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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmental%20analysis%20%28biology%29 | Segmental analysis is a method of anatomical analysis for describing the connective morphology of the human body. Instead of describing anatomy in terms of spatial relativity, as in the anatomical position method, segmental analysis describes anatomy in terms of which organs, tissues, etc. connect to each other, and th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20E.%20Evans | David E. Evans FLSW was born in 1950 at Glanamman, Dyfed, Wales. He is a professor of mathematics at Cardiff University, specialising in knot theory. He has published a number of books, many in collaboration with Yasuyuki Kawahigashi.
He studied at New College, Oxford, and Jesus College, Oxford.
From 1975 to 1976 E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlef%20Quadfasel | Detlef Rudolf Quadfasel is a professor of Geophysics at Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics at Copenhagen University and Oceanography at the Institut für Meereskunde, Hamburg. He is joint editor of Progress in Oceanography. He is involved in a number of projects, including Climate monitoring - Gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization%20of%20polynomials | In mathematics and computer algebra, factorization of polynomials or polynomial factorization expresses a polynomial with coefficients in a given field or in the integers as the product of irreducible factors with coefficients in the same domain. Polynomial factorization is one of the fundamental components of compute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umpolung | In organic chemistry, umpolung () or polarity inversion is the chemical modification of a functional group with the aim of the reversal of polarity of that group. This modification allows secondary reactions of this functional group that would otherwise not be possible. The concept was introduced by D. Seebach (hence ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Indian%20Engineering%20College | The Royal Indian Engineering College (or RIEC) was a British college of Civil Engineering run by the India Office to train civil engineers for service in the Indian Public Works Department. It was located on the Cooper's Hill estate, near Egham, Surrey. It functioned from 1872 until 1906, when its work was transferred ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Livio | Mario Livio (born June 19, 1945) is an Israeli-American astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. For 24 years (1991–2015) he was an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope. He has published more than 400 scientific articles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent%20Itti | Laurent Itti (born December 12, 1970 in Tours, France) is a computational neuroscientist. He received his MS in image processing from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris in 1994, and a PhD in computation and neural systems from Caltech in 2000. He is currently an associate professor of comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Fabel | Karl Fabel (October 20, 1905 in Hamburg – March 3, 1975 in Egenhofen) was a German chess composer.
Fabel received a doctorate in chemistry and worked as a mathematician and civil judge at the federal office of brands and patents in Munich, of which he was also president.
He is considered one of the most ingenious che... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale%20length | Scale length may refer to:
Length scale (or "scale length"), a significant concept in physics used to define the order of magnitude of a system
Scale height (or "scale length"), a specific parameter in physics denoting the distance over which a quantity decreases by a factor of e
Scale length (string instruments), a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20Physics%20Information%20Retrieval%20System | The Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) is a database management system developed by Stanford University. It is used by universities, colleges and research institutions. The first website in North America was created to allow remote users access to its database.
History
SPIRES was originally develop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape%20theory | Shape theory refers to three different theories:
Shape theory in topology
Shape analysis (disambiguation) in mathematics and computer science
Shape theory of olfaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Wilf | Herbert Saul Wilf (June 13, 1931 – January 7, 2012) was an American mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote numerous books and research papers. Together with N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudogap | In condensed matter physics, a pseudogap describes a state where the Fermi surface of a material possesses a partial energy gap, for example, a band structure state where the Fermi surface is gapped only at certain points.
The term pseudogap was coined by Nevill Mott in 1968 to indicate a minimum in the density of st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPCA | JPCA may refer to:
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, a scientific journal
Japan Photographic Copyright Association a copyright collection society
Japan Postal Chess Association, an ICCF national member federation
Japan Primary Care Association, an academic association for family medicine doctors in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary%20relation | In mathematics, a ternary relation or triadic relation is a finitary relation in which the number of places in the relation is three. Ternary relations may also be referred to as 3-adic, 3-ary, 3-dimensional, or 3-place.
Just as a binary relation is formally defined as a set of pairs, i.e. a subset of the Cartesian p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log%20probability | In probability theory and computer science, a log probability is simply a logarithm of a probability. The use of log probabilities means representing probabilities on a logarithmic scale , instead of the standard unit interval.
Since the probabilities of independent events multiply, and logarithms convert multiplicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing%20Link | "Missing link" is a non-scientific term originated from early discussions of human evolution. The term may refer to:
Biology
Missing link (human evolution), a non-scientific term typically referring to transitional fossils
Piltdown Man, a hoax in which bone fragments were presented as the "missing link" between ape ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotome%20%28mathematics%29 | In the historical study of mathematics, an apotome is a line segment formed from a longer line segment by breaking it into two parts, one of which is commensurable only in power to the whole; the other part is the apotome. In this definition, two line segments are said to be "commensurable only in power" when the ratio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Jensen | Ronald Björn Jensen (born April 1, 1936) is an American mathematician who lives in Germany, primarily known for his work in mathematical logic and set theory.
Career
Jensen completed a BA in economics at American University in 1959, and a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Bonn in 1964. His supervisor was Gisbe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicon | Replicon may refer to:
Replicon (genetics), a region of DNA or RNA that replicates from a single origin of replication
Replicon (company), a software company providinand expense management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicon%20%28genetics%29 | A replicon is a region of an organism's genome that is independently replicated from a single origin of replication. A bacterial chromosome contains a single origin, and therefore the whole bacterial chromosome is a replicon. The chromosomes of archaea and eukaryotes can have multiple origins of replication, and so the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Garrick | John Andrew Frank "Jack" Garrick (1928 – August 30, 2018) was a New Zealand ichthyologist. He specialized in elasmobranchs and published many books and articles about shark and ray biology. In 1982, he published a thorough taxonomy on sharks of the genus Carcharhinus, where he identified the smoothtooth blacktip shark ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroics | In physics, ferroics is the generic name given to the study of ferromagnets, ferroelectrics, and ferroelastics.
Overview
The basis of ferroics is to understand the large changes in physical characteristics that occur over a very narrow temperature range. The changes in physical characteristics occur when phase transi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WormBook | WormBook is an open access, comprehensive collection of original, peer-reviewed chapters covering topics related to the biology of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). WormBook also includes WormMethods, an up-to-date collection of methods and protocols for C. elegans researchers.
WormBook is the onl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Javier%20Gonz%C3%A1lez-Acu%C3%B1a | Francisco Javier González-Acuña (nickname "Fico") is a mathematician in the UNAM's institute of mathematics and CIMAT, specializing in low-dimensional topology.
Education
He did his graduate studies at Princeton University, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1970. His thesis, written under the supervision of Ralph Fox, was titled... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indumentum | In biology, an indumentum (Latin, literally: "garment") is a covering of trichomes (fine "hairs") on a plant or of bristles (rarely scales) of an insect.
In plants, indumentum types include:
pubescent
hirsute
pilose
lanate
villous
tomentose
stellate
scabrous
scurfy
The indumentum on plants can have a wide variety of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochen%E2%80%93Specker%20theorem | In quantum mechanics, the Kochen–Specker (KS) theorem, also known as the Bell–Kochen–Specker theorem, is a "no-go" theorem proved by John S. Bell in 1966 and by Simon B. Kochen and Ernst Specker in 1967. It places certain constraints on the permissible types of hidden-variable theories, which try to explain the predict... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20resolved%20shear%20stress | In materials science, critical resolved shear stress (CRSS) is the component of shear stress, resolved in the direction of slip, necessary to initiate slip in a grain. Resolved shear stress (RSS) is the shear component of an applied tensile or compressive stress resolved along a slip plane that is other than perpendicu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryas | Dryas may refer to:
Biology
Dryas (plant), a genus of plants
Dryas, a monotypic genus of butterflies containing the single species Dryas iulia
Dryas monkey (Cercopithecus dryas), a little-known species of guenon found only in the Congo Basin
Geology
Dryas, the name of several climatic periods, named for their ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reviews%20of%20Modern%20Physics | Reviews of Modern Physics (abbreviated RMP) is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Physical Society. It was established in 1929 and the current editor-in-chief is Michael Thoennessen. The journal publishes review articles, usually by established researchers, on all aspects of physics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden%20sector | In particle physics, the hidden sector, also known as the dark sector, is a hypothetical collection of yet-unobserved quantum fields and their corresponding hypothetical particles. The interactions between the hidden sector particles and the Standard Model particles are weak, indirect, and typically mediated through gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20hierarchy%20problem | In particle physics the little hierarchy problem in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is a refinement of the hierarchy problem. According to quantum field theory, the mass of the Higgs boson must be rather light for the electroweak theory to work. However, the loop corrections to the mass are naturally m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction-free%20measurement | In physics, interaction-free measurement is a type of measurement in quantum mechanics that detects the position, presence, or state of an object without an interaction occurring between it and the measuring device. Examples include the Renninger negative-result experiment, the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb-testing problem, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Gillogly | James J. Gillogly (born 5 March 1946) is an American computer scientist and cryptographer.
Biography
Early life
His interest in cryptography stems from his boyhood, as did his interest in mathematics. By junior high he was inventing his own ciphers and challenging his father, entomologist Lorin Gillogly, to solve the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPRITE%20infrared%20detector | The SPRITE infrared detector is named after the process of signal integration carried out by "Signal Processing In The Element". The technique was invented at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at Malvern by a team of scientists including Tom Elliott.
The detector allows the build up of detected infrared signa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Cryptogram%20Association | The American Cryptogram Association (ACA) is an American non-profit organization devoted to the hobby of cryptography, with an emphasis on types of codes, ciphers, and cryptograms that can be solved either with pencil and paper, or with computers, but not computer-only systems.
History
The ACA was formed on September... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20McNiven%20Garner | David McNiven Garner (26 November 1928 – 13 May 2016) was notable as a published research physicist, with a focus in physical oceanography and ocean circulation.
History
Garner attended New York University from 1959 to 1962, where he graduated with a PhD in Physics on 22 October 1962. Dr. Garner returned to New Zeal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazur%E2%80%93Ulam%20theorem | In mathematics, the Mazur–Ulam theorem states that if and are normed spaces over R and the mapping
is a surjective isometry, then is affine. It was proved by Stanisław Mazur and Stanisław Ulam in response to a question raised by Stefan Banach.
For strictly convex spaces the result is true, and easy, even for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/192%20%28number%29 | 192 (one hundred [and] ninety-two) is the natural number following 191 and preceding 193.
In mathematics
192 has the prime factorization . Because it has so many small prime factors, it is the smallest number with 14 divisors, namely 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96, and 192 itself. Because its only prime ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megavolt | Megavolt may refer to:
One million volts in electronics and physics
Megavolt (Darkwing Duck), a fictional supervillain in the Disney animated series Darkwing Duck.
Megavolt, a villain in the television seriesTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duarte%20Leite | Duarte Leite Pereira da Silva, GCC (11 August 1864 in Porto – 29 September 1950 in Porto; ), was a Portuguese historian, mathematician, journalist, diplomat and politician. He graduated in Mathematics at the University of Coimbra, in 1885. He taught at the Politecnic Academy of Porto, from 1886 to 1911. Meanwhile, he w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular%20momentum%20operator | In quantum mechanics, the angular momentum operator is one of several related operators analogous to classical angular momentum. The angular momentum operator plays a central role in the theory of atomic and molecular physics and other quantum problems involving rotational symmetry. Such an operator is applied to a ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Bedwell | William Bedwell (1561 – 5 May 1632 near London) was an English priest and scholar, specializing in Arabic and other "oriental" languages as well as in mathematics.
Bedwell was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He served the Church of England as Rector of St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate and Vicar of All Hallows, Tott... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3%20Heller | Heller László (1907–1980) was a Hungarian professor and mechanical engineer credited with inventing the Heller–Forgó dry cooling tower system for power stations.
Biography
Born in Nagyvárad, Heller took a degree in mechanical engineering in 1931 at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich.
In the 1940s the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Asimov%27s%20Robots%20in%20Time | Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time is a series of six science fiction novels featuring Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Written by American author William F. Wu as novels for children, they were the first series authorized to use Asimov's fictional universe after his death in 1992.
Plot outline
Set on Earth, it tells... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad%20Ardalan | Farhad Ardalan (in Persian:فرهاد اردلان, born 1939, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian High Energy physicist. He is a professor at Sharif University and the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics.
He is known for the proposal of the para-string theory, construction of modular invariant partition functio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blotto%20%28biology%29 | In biology, BLOTTO is a blocking reagent made from nonfat dry milk, phosphate buffered saline, and sodium azide. Its name is an almost-acronym of bovine lacto transfer technique optimizer. It constitutes an inexpensive source of nonspecific protein (milk casein) which blocks protein binding sites in a variety of experi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayazi%20syndrome | Ayazi syndrome (or Chromosome 21 Xq21 deletion syndrome) is a syndrome characterized by choroideremia, congenital deafness and obesity.
Signs and symptoms
The presentation for this condition is as follows:
Mental retardation
Deafness at birth
Obesity
Choroideremia
Impaired vision
Progressive degeneration of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20contact%20homology | In mathematics, in the area of symplectic topology, relative contact homology is an invariant of spaces together with a chosen subspace. Namely, it is associated to a contact manifold and one of its Legendrian submanifolds. It is a part of a more general invariant known as symplectic field theory, and is defined using ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20electrical%20engineering | This article details the history of electrical engineering. The first substantial practical use of electricity was electromagnetism.
Ancient developments
Long before any knowledge of electricity existed, people were aware of shocks from electric fish. Ancient Egyptian texts dating from 2750 BCE referred to these fish ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Physics%20Olympiad | The United States Physics Olympiad (USAPhO) is a high school physics competition run by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics to select the team to represent the United States at the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO). The team is selected through a series of exams testin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazem%20Vaziri%20Hamaneh | Seyyed Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh (born 1945) is an Iranian engineer who served as oil minister from 2005 to 2007.
Early life and education
Hamaneh was born in Yazd in 1945. He holds a mechanical engineering degree, which he received from Polytechnique University. He also received a master's degree in management.
Career an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%20polynomial | In mathematics, Conway polynomial can refer to:
the Alexander–Conway polynomial in knot theory
the Conway polynomial (finite fields)
the polynomial of degree 71 that has Conway's constant as its single positive real root |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation%20%28disambiguation%29 | In mathematics, permutation relates to the act of arranging all the members of a set into some sequence or order.
Permutation may also refer to:
An alteration or transformation of a previous object or concept; see iteration
Permutation, as a mathematical concept
Permutation test in statistics
Permutation (Cryptog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horner%E2%80%93Wadsworth%E2%80%93Emmons%20reaction | The Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons (HWE) reaction is a chemical reaction used in organic chemistry of stabilized phosphonate carbanions with aldehydes (or ketones) to produce predominantly E-alkenes.
In 1958, Leopold Horner published a modified Wittig reaction using phosphonate-stabilized carbanions. William S. Wadsworth and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20hyperbolic%20functions | In mathematics, the inverse hyperbolic functions are inverses of the hyperbolic functions, analogous to the inverse circular functions. There are six in common use: inverse hyperbolic sine, inverse hyperbolic cosine, inverse hyperbolic tangent, inverse hyperbolic cosecant, inverse hyperbolic secant, and inverse hyperbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque%20%28disambiguation%29 | In physics and engineering, torque is the tendency of a force to rotate an object.
Torque can also refer to:
Places
Torque, a townland in the civil parish of Newtown, barony of Moycashel, County Westmeath, Ireland
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
Torque (DC comics), a supervillain
Torque (Marvel ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20robot | A mobile robot is an automatic machine that is capable of locomotion. Mobile robotics is usually considered to be a subfield of robotics and information engineering.
Mobile robots have the capability to move around in their environment and are not fixed to one physical location. Mobile robots can be "autonomous" (AMR... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer%20Smythe | Spencer Smythe () is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an adversary of the superhero Spider-Man as well as the father of Alistair Smythe. A scientist researching robotics and arachnids, he turned to crime to finance his research, and dedica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotkin%20bound | In the mathematics of coding theory, the Plotkin bound, named after Morris Plotkin, is a limit (or bound) on the maximum possible number of codewords in binary codes of given length n and given minimum distance d.
Statement of the bound
A code is considered "binary" if the codewords use symbols from the binary alphab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed%20Munim%20al-Izmerly | Prof. Dr. Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly was an Iraqi chemistry professor who allegedly experimented with poisons on prisoners while Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq and died while in US custody in early February 2004, ten months after his arrest.
Alleged role in weapons development
In an October 6, 2005 report by Char... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronizer%20%28algorithm%29 | In computer science, a synchronizer is an algorithm that can be used to run a synchronous algorithm on top of an asynchronous processor network, so enabling the asynchronous system to run as a synchronous network.
The concept was originally proposed in (Awerbuch, 1985) along with three synchronizer algorithms named al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%20bound | In applied mathematics, the Johnson bound (named after Selmer Martin Johnson) is a limit on the size of error-correcting codes, as used in coding theory for data transmission or communications.
Definition
Let be a q-ary code of length , i.e. a subset of . Let be the minimum distance of , i.e.
where is the Hamming... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasser%20effect | The Glasser effect describes the creation of singularities in the flow field of a magnetically confined plasma when small resonant perturbations modify the gradient of the pressure field.
External links
Physics of magnetically confined plasmas
Fusion power |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattarello | Mattarello is a small town in Trentino, Italy. It has been subsumed into a frazione of the comune of Trento, having previously been an independent comune. It has a population of 6,226.
Mattarello is the site of the interdepartmental research centre CIBIO(Centre for Integrative Biology, part of the University of Trento... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrocinium%20Chymicum | Tyrocinium Chymicum was a published set of chemistry lecture notes started by Jean Beguin in 1610 in Paris, France. It has been cited as the first chemistry textbook (as opposed to that for alchemy). Many of the preparations were pharmaceutical in nature.
References
External links
Antonio Clericuzio, Chemical Textbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neuroscientists | Many famous neuroscientists are from the 20th and 21st century, as neuroscience is a fairly new science. However many anatomists, physiologists, biologists, neurologists, psychiatrists and other physicians and psychologists are considered to be neuroscientists as well. This list compiles the names of all neuroscientist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonium%20ion | In chemistry, a carbonium ion is any cation that has a pentacoordinated carbon atom. The name carbonium may also be used for the simplest member of the class, properly called methanium (), where the carbon atom is covalently bonded to five hydrogen atoms.
The next simplest carbonium ions after methanium have two carbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul%20Adelman | Saul Joseph Adelman (born 18 November 1944, in Atlantic City) is an astronomer at The Citadel's Physics Department in Charleston, South Carolina. Adelman received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Maryland in 1966 and his PhD in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1972. He spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HT-7 | HT-7, or Hefei Tokamak-7, is an experimental superconducting tokamak nuclear fusion reactor built in Hefei, China, to investigate the process of developing fusion power. The HT-7 was developed with the assistance of Russia, and was based on the earlier T-7 tokamak reactor. The reactor was built by the Hefei-based Insti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20DeRisi | Joseph Lyman DeRisi is an American biochemist, specializing in molecular biology, parasitology, genomics, virology, and computational biology.
Early life and education
DeRisi was raised in Carmichael, California, where he graduated from Del Campo High School. He received a B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction%20to%20Automata%20Theory%2C%20Languages%2C%20and%20Computation | Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation is an influential computer science textbook by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman on formal languages and the theory of computation. Rajeev Motwani contributed to later editions beginning in 2000.
Nickname
The Jargon File records the book's nickname, Cinderel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Church%20%28geneticist%29 | George McDonald Church (born August 28, 1954) is an American geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist, serial entrepreneur, and pioneer in personal genomics and synthetic biology. He is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard University ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACML | ACML or variant, may refer to:
AMD Core Math Library (ACML)
Atypical chronic myeloid leukemia (aCML)
American cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (ACML), a type of cutaneous leishmaniasis
Asian Conference on Machine Learning, founded by Zhou Zhi-Hua
Analytical Chemistry & Microscopy Laboratory, Forest Produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting | Splitting may refer to:
Splitting (psychology)
Lumpers and splitters, in classification or taxonomy
Wood splitting
Tongue splitting
Splitting, railway operation
Mathematics
Heegaard splitting
Splitting field
Splitting principle
Splitting theorem
Splitting lemma
for the numerical method to solve differential... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20F.%20Crow | James Franklin Crow (January 18, 1916 – January 4, 2012) was Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a prominent population geneticist whose career spanned from the modern synthesis to the genomic era.
Some of his most significant peer-reviewed contributions were coauthored with Motoo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20model | Lattice model may refer to:
Lattice model (physics), a physical model that is defined on a periodic structure with a repeating elemental unit pattern, as opposed to the continuum of space or spacetime
Lattice model (finance), a "discrete-time" model of the varying price over time of the underlying financial instrum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-free%20polynomial | In mathematics, a square-free polynomial is a polynomial defined over a field (or more generally, an integral domain) that does not have as a divisor any square of a non-constant polynomial. A univariate polynomial is square free if and only if it has no multiple root in an algebraically closed field containing its coe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervand%20Kogbetliantz | Ervand George Kogbetliantz (; February 22, 1888 in Rostov-on-the-Don – 1974 in Paris, France) was an Armenian-American mathematician and the first president of the Yerevan State University. He left Russia in 1918. He received a Doctorate in mathematics from the University of Paris in 1923. His mathematical work was mai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLI | BLI may refer to:
Biology
Bio-layer interferometry, a real-time technique to study biomolecular interactions
Bioluminescence imaging, a technology that allows for the noninvasive study of small laboratory animals
Organizations
Bible Lessons International, an American Bible study ministry
BirdLife International, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig%20Strigeus | Ludvig "Ludde" Strigeus (born January 1981) is a Swedish programmer, best known for developing software such as the BitTorrent client μTorrent, OpenTTD, and Spotify.
Early life and education
Strigeus was born in January 1981, and he graduated from Chalmers University of Technology with a master's degree in computer s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi%20Vaez-Iravani | Mehdi Vaez-Iravani is an Iranian scientist, engineer and inventor involved in the invention of "Shear-force microscopy".
Mehdi Vaez-Iravani graduated with a PhD in Electrical engineering from University College London and became a faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology before joining KLA Tencor.
He has n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event%20monitoring | In computer science, event monitoring is the process of collecting, analyzing, and signaling event occurrences to subscribers such as operating system processes, active database rules as well as human operators. These event occurrences may stem from arbitrary sources in both software or hardware such as operating syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Felsenstein | Joseph "Joe" Felsenstein (born May 9, 1942) is a Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Genome Sciences and Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is best known for his work on phylogenetic inference, and is the author of Inferring Phylogenies, and principal author and distributor of the package of ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectus | "Rectus" is the Latin word meaning "straight" and is used in English to refer to multiple topics in the sciences, including:
In molecular chemistry the R in the R & S isomerism stands for "rectus"
In grammar "casus rectus" is a formal term for nominative case
In mathematics sine is also known as "sinus rectus"
In t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori%20McCreary | Lori McCreary is an American film producer. She is CEO of the production company Revelations Entertainment, which she co-founded with actor Morgan Freeman.
Early life
McCreary grew up in Antioch, California. She graduated from Antioch High School in 1979.
McCreary graduated from UCLA with a degree in Computer Science... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sima%20Lozani%C4%87 | Simeon Milivoje Lozanić and Simeon "Sima" Lozanić () (1847 – 1935) was a Serbian chemist, president of the Serbian Royal Academy, the first rector of the University of Belgrade, minister of foreign affairs, minister of industry and diplomat. At the Grandes écoles and later when it transformed into the University of Bel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Briggs%20%28author%29 | John Briggs (born 1945) is an American author and co-author of general audience nonfiction books in the fields of holistic physics; aesthetics in the arts; creativity, creative process, and consciousness studies. Emeritus Distinguished CSU Professor of Writing and Aesthetics at Western Connecticut State University, Bri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibonding%20molecular%20orbital | In theoretical chemistry, an antibonding orbital is a type of molecular orbital that weakens the chemical bond between two atoms and helps to raise the energy of the molecule relative to the separated atoms. Such an orbital has one or more nodes in the bonding region between the nuclei. The density of the electrons in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20flip | In organic chemistry, a ring flip (also known as a ring inversion or ring reversal) is the interconversion of cyclic conformers that have equivalent ring shapes (e.g., from a chair conformer to another chair conformer) that results in the exchange of nonequivalent substituent positions. The overall process generally ta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-y%20method | In geotechnical civil engineering, the p–y is a method of analyzing the ability of deep foundations to resist loads applied in the lateral direction. This method uses the finite difference method and p-y graphs to find a solution. P–y graphs are graphs which relate the force applied to soil to the lateral deflection of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence%20function | In mathematics, influence function is used to mean either:
a synonym for a Green's function;
Influence function (statistics), the effect on an estimator of changing one point of the sample |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside%20Health%20System | Riverside Health System is an integrated, not-for-profit health network serving two million people annually. It has been operating in Eastern Virginia since 1915, and offers a variety of services and programs in the areas of prevention, primary care, diagnostics, neurosciences, oncology, orthopedics, aging-related serv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashok%20Row%20Kavi | Ashok Row Kavi is an Indian journalist and LGBT rights activist.
Life
He was born in Mumbai on 1 June 1947. He graduated with honours in Chemistry from the University of Bombay. Later, he dropped out of engineering college. Due to his early difficulty in dealing with his homosexuality, he enrolled as a Hindu monk in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20M.%20Dudley | Richard Mansfield Dudley (July 28, 1938 – January 19, 2020) was Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education and career
Dudley was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his BA at Harvard College and received his PhD at Princeton University in 1962 under the supervision of Edward Nelso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake%20number | In mathematics, the cake number, denoted by Cn, is the maximum of the number of regions into which a 3-dimensional cube can be partitioned by exactly n planes. The cake number is so-called because one may imagine each partition of the cube by a plane as a slice made by a knife through a cube-shaped cake. It is the 3D a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Goertz | Raymond C. Goertz (March 12, 1915 - June 4, 1970) was an American mechanical engineer and an early pioneer in the field of robotics, specifically remote-controlled robots (see telepresence). In 1949, while working for the Atomic Energy Commission at Argonne National Laboratory, Goertz filed a patent for an early master... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Homan%20Thorpe | William Homan Thorpe FRS (1 April 1902 – 7 April 1986) was Professor of Animal Ethology at the University of Cambridge, and a significant British zoologist, ethologist and ornithologist. Together with Nikolaas Tinbergen, Patrick Bateson and Robert Hinde, Thorpe contributed to the growth and acceptance of behavioural bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20walking | In combinatorial mathematics, block walking is a method useful in thinking about sums of combinations graphically as "walks" on Pascal's triangle. As the name suggests, block walking problems involve counting the number of ways an individual can walk from one corner A of a city block to another corner B of another city... |
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