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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Mar%C3%ADa%20Cetto | Ana María Cetto Kramis (born 1946, in Mexico City) is a Mexican physicist and professor. She is known for her contributions to quantum mechanics, stochastic, electrodynamics, and biophysics of light, and for her work as a pacifist. From 2003 to 2010 she was Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Age... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant%20Physics | Instant Physics (full title: Instant Physics: From Aristotle to Einstein, and Beyond) is a book by Tony Rothman first published by Fawcett Columbine in 1995. The book, meant for readers with a minimal amount of mathematical training, consists of ten chapters that cover most of the essential topics in physics, from cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn%20Colliar | Lynn Colliar (born 22 November 1967) is a Canadian television anchor.
Biography
Colliar was born in Scotland and grew up in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. She is a graduate of Port Coquitlam Senior Secondary and went on to SFU where she graduated with a degree in biology. Colliar worked at veterinary clinics as an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BAlio%20Ximenes%20S%C3%AAnior | Júlio Ximenes Sênior (March 13, 1901 in Uberaba, Minas Gerais – April 11, 1975 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian scientist and medical doctor, in the research field of biochemistry, microbiology, and was also a career Brazilian Army officer.
Military career
He attained the rank of brigadier-general du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Petroleum%20Engineering%20and%20Applied%20Geophysics%2C%20NTNU | In 2017 the department was merged with the Department of Geology and Mineral Resources Engineering, forming the new
Department of Geoscience and Petroleum.
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is the key university of science and technology in Norway. The Department of Petroleum Engineering and A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keldysh%20formalism | In non-equilibrium physics, the Keldysh formalism is a general framework for describing the quantum mechanical evolution of a system in a non-equilibrium state or systems subject to time varying external fields (electrical field, magnetic field etc.). Historically, it was foreshadowed by the work of Julian Schwinger a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone%20Star%20Infrastructure | Lone Star Infrastructure (LSI) is a consortium of major highway construction contractors and civil engineering firms that was awarded a Comprehensive Development Agreement by the Texas Department of Transportation to design and build State Highway 130.
Member companies
Fluor Daniel
Balfour Beatty Construction, Inc.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Blass | Andreas Raphael Blass (born October 27, 1947) is a mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Michigan. He works in mathematical logic, particularly set theory, and theoretical computer science.
Blass graduated from the University of Detroit, where he was a Putnam Fellow in 1965, in 1966 with a B.S. in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona%20Nemer | Mona Nemer, (born 1957) is a Lebanese-Canadian scientist specializing in molecular genetics and cardiac regeneration. She was formerly a professor of pharmacology at the University of Montreal and the Director of the Cardiac Development Research Unit at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) where she... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krieger%E2%80%93Nelson%20Prize | The Krieger–Nelson Prize is presented by the Canadian Mathematical Society in recognition of an outstanding woman in mathematics. It was first
awarded in 1995. The award is named after Cecilia Krieger and Evelyn Nelson, both known for their contributions to mathematics in Canada.
Recipients
While the award has largely... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20S.%20Harris | James S. Harris is a scientist and engineer and fellow of IEEE, American Physical Society and Optical Society of America. His research primarily deals with optoelectronic devices and semiconductor material research.
Since 1982, he is the James and Elenor Chesebrough Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman%20Parimala | Raman Parimala (born 21 November 1948) is an Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra. She is the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of mathematics at Emory University. For many years, she was a professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. She has been on the Mathematical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Radical%20Centre | The Free Radical Centre or ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology was a research centre from 2005 - 2013 that was established in the 2005 Australian Research Council (ARC) grant funding rounds. The centre was administered from the University of Melbourne, and had nodes at six Australian u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision%20problem | The r-to-1 collision problem is an important theoretical problem in complexity theory, quantum computing, and computational mathematics. The collision problem most often refers to the 2-to-1 version: given even and a function , we are promised that f is either 1-to-1 or 2-to-1. We are only allowed to make queries abou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netafim | Netafim is an Israeli manufacturer of irrigation equipment. The company produces drippers, dripperlines, sprinklers and micro-emitters. Netafim also manufactures and distributes crop management technologies, including monitoring and control systems, dosing systems, and crop management software, as well as a variety of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Society%20of%20Hispanic%20Physicists | The National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP) was established in 1996 with the goal of promoting the participation and advancement of Hispanic-Americans in physics and celebrating the contributions of Hispanic-American physicists to the study and teaching of physics.
Brief history
A grant from the Sloan Foundatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20subspace | In signal processing, signal subspace methods are empirical linear methods for dimensionality reduction and noise reduction. These approaches have attracted significant interest and investigation recently in the context of speech enhancement, speech modeling, and speech classification research. The signal subspace is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonni%20Fulcher | Jonathan (Jonni) Fulcher (born 22 September 1974 in Inverness, Scotland) is a Scottish professional pocket billiards player. He currently resides in Geneva, Switzerland and competes throughout the world.
Early days
Fulcher first began to play snooker at the age of 10. He moved to London at age 18 to study physics at I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20molecular%20evolution | The history of molecular evolution starts in the early 20th century with "comparative biochemistry", but the field of molecular evolution came into its own in the 1960s and 1970s, following the rise of molecular biology. The advent of protein sequencing allowed molecular biologists to create phylogenies based on sequen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donders%20Centre%20for%20Cognition | The Donders Centre for Cognition (former Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information) is a research institute for cognitive science, neuroscience and information technology. It was founded in 1986 as an integral part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands.
The DCC ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goran%20Grani%C4%87 | Goran Granić (born 18 April 1950) is a former Croatian centre-left politician who was the deputy prime minister from 2000 to 2002.
Granić was born in Baška Voda. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Zagreb in 1972, obtaining a PhD from the same faculty in 1979. From 1973 to 1978 he worked as a re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottrell%20equation | In electrochemistry, the Cottrell equation describes the change in electric current with respect to time in a controlled potential experiment, such as chronoamperometry. Specifically it describes the current response when the potential is a step function in time. It was derived by Frederick Gardner Cottrell in 1903. F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Goldman-Rakic | Patricia Goldman-Rakic ( ; née Shoer, April 22, 1937 – July 31, 2003) was an American professor of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and psychology at Yale University School of Medicine. She pioneered multidisciplinary research of the prefrontal cortex and working memory.
Early life and education
Patricia Shoer was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology%20of%20Pakistan%27s%20rocket%20tests | The Suparco's spaceflight missions and tests were the sounding rocket launches of the Space Research Commission (SUPARCO) that were aimed at developing high-altitude rockets for Pakistan's space program. The exploration program provides opportunities for physics, atmospheric physics, investigations of the prevailing te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octacube%20%28sculpture%29 | The Octacube is a large, stainless steel sculpture displayed in the mathematics department of Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA. The sculpture represents a mathematical object called the 24-cell or "octacube". Because a real 24-cell is four-dimensional, the artwork is actually a projection into the thr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20A.%20Bennett | Martin Arthur Bennett FRS is an Australian inorganic chemist. He gained recognition for studies on the co-ordination chemistry of tertiary phosphines, olefins, and acetylenes, and the relationship of their behaviour to homogeneous catalysis.
Professional career
Born in London, Bennett studied at The Haberdashers' As... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20MacAuley | Alexander MacAuley may refer to:
Alexander McAulay (1863–1931), professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Tasmania
Alexander MacAuley (footballer), Scottish footballer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number%20sentence | In mathematics education, a number sentence is an equation or inequality expressed using numbers and mathematical symbols. The term is used in primary level mathematics teaching in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Usage
The term is used as means of asking students to write down equations us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20J.R.%20Hughes | Thomas Joseph Robert Hughes (born 1943) is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and currently holds the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair (III) at the Oden Institute at The University of Texas at Austin.
Hughes has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Thomas%20%28academic%29 | Geoffrey Price Thomas FLSW (born 3 July 1941) was President of Kellogg College, Oxford, and Director of Oxford University Department for Continuing Education until 2008.
He was educated at Maesteg Grammar School, University of Wales (Swansea) (BSc, (First Class Honours, Physics)) and Churchill College, Cambridge (PhD)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Research%20and%20Technology%20Institute | The Space Research and Technology Institute () of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is a primary research body in the field of space science in Bulgaria.
The mission of SRTI-BAS is to conduct fundamental and applied studies in the field of Space Physics, Remote Sensing of the Earth and Planets, and Aerospace Systems a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Parent | André Parent, (born October 3, 1944 ) is a Canadian researcher specializing in neurobiology, and Professor Emeritus at Université Laval.
Born in Montreal, he attended the Université de Montréal (BSc 1967) and subsequently earned a PhD in neuroanatomy from Université Laval in 1970. He undertook postdoctoral studies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics%20%28journal%29 | Biometrics is a journal that publishes articles on the application of statistics and mathematics to the biological sciences. It is published by the International Biometric Society (IBS). Originally published in 1945 under the title Biometrics Bulletin, the journal adopted the shorter title in 1947. A notable contributo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20velocity | In continuum mechanics the flow velocity in fluid dynamics, also macroscopic velocity in statistical mechanics, or drift velocity in electromagnetism, is a vector field used to mathematically describe the motion of a continuum. The length of the flow velocity vector is the flow speed and is a scalar.
It is also called ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Applied%20Ichthyology | The Journal of Applied Ichthyology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal on ichthyology, marine biology, and oceanography published by Wiley-Blackwell. It is the official journal of the World Sturgeon Conservation Society and of the Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Kommission für Meeresforschung ("German Scientific Commissio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboJackets | RoboJackets is a group of Georgia Tech students, faculty, and alumni that aims to enhance the understanding of the field of robotics and its applications. The team also strives to increase of the number of students exposed to it. The group, located in the Student Competition Center, allows students to engage in a wide ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globodera%20pallida | Globodera pallida is a species of nematode in the family Heteroderidae. It is well known as a plant pathogen, especially of potatoes. It is "one of the most economically important plant parasitic nematodes," causing major crop losses, and is a model organism used to study the biology of cyst nematodes. Its common names... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Dale%20Stewart | Thomas Dale Stewart (August 14, 1890 – February 6, 1958) was an American chemist.
He was born at Sumner, Washington, and received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from University of California at Berkeley in 1916. After one year of research at University of Chicago under Julius Stieglitz, he returned to Berkeley as an i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20R.%20White | Steven R. White is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a condensed matter physicist who specializes in the simulation of quantum systems. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego; he then received his Ph.D. at Cornell University, where he was a shared student with Kenn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20buffer | In computer science, a circular buffer, circular queue, cyclic buffer or ring buffer is a data structure that uses a single, fixed-size buffer as if it were connected end-to-end. This structure lends itself easily to buffering data streams. There were early circular buffer implementations in hardware.
Overview
A cir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin%20Solja%C4%8Di%C4%87 | Marin Soljačić (born February 7, 1974) is a Croatian-American physicist and electrical engineer known for wireless non-radiative energy transfer.
Biography
Marin Soljačić was born in Zagreb in 1974. After graduating from XV Gymnasium (MIOC) in Zagreb he attended MIT, where he got his BSc in physics and electrical engi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyad | In mathematics, polyad is a concept of category theory introduced by Jean Bénabou in generalising monads. A polyad in a bicategory D is a bicategory morphism Φ from a locally punctual bicategory C to D, . (A bicategory C is called locally punctual if all hom-categories C(X,Y) consist of one object and one morphism only... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroMegas%20detector | The MicroMegas detector (Micro-Mesh Gaseous Structure) is a gaseous particle detector coming from the development of the wire chamber. Invented in 1992 by Georges Charpak and Ioannis Giomataris, the Micromegas detectors are mainly used in experimental physics, in particular in particle physics, nuclear physics and astr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Hale | N. Wayne Hale Jr. (born July 5, 1954) is a former NASA engineer. Previously a flight director and Space Shuttle program manager, Hale served as NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Strategic Partnerships prior to his retirement on July 31, 2010.
Born in Clovis, New Mexico, Hale earned a Bachelor of Science in me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semulation | Semulation is a computer science-related portmanteau of simulation and emulation, signifying the process of controlling an emulation through a simulator.
Semulation in computer science
Digital hardware is described using hardware description languages (HDL) like VHDL, Verilog or System Verilog. These descriptions are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20E.%20Hart | Peter E. Hart (born 1941) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He was chairman and president of Ricoh Innovations, which he founded in 1997. He made significant contributions in the field of computer science in a series of widely cited publications from the years 1967–75 while associated with the Artific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20Precedings | Nature Precedings was an open access electronic preprint repository of scholarly work in the fields of biomedical sciences, chemistry, and earth sciences. It ceased accepting new submissions as of April 3, 2012.
Nature Precedings functioned as a permanent, citable archive for pre-publication research and preliminary ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Smith | Wolfgang Smith (born February 18, 1930 in Vienna, Austria) is a mathematician, physicist, philosopher of science, metaphysician, Roman Catholic and member of the Traditionalist School. He has written extensively in the field of differential geometry, as a critic of scientism and as a proponent of a new interpretation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazur%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Mazur's lemma is a result in the theory of normed vector spaces. It shows that any weakly convergent sequence in a normed space has a sequence of convex combinations of its members that converges strongly to the same limit, and is used in the proof of Tonelli's theorem.
Statement of the lemma
Let be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Hiltz | Frederick James Hiltz (born 3 December 1953) is a Canadian retired Anglican bishop. From 2007 to 2019, he served as Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Early life and education
Hiltz was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where he was also raised. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Dalhousie University in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonelli%27s%20theorem%20%28functional%20analysis%29 | In mathematics, Tonelli's theorem in functional analysis is a fundamental result on the weak lower semicontinuity of nonlinear functionals on Lp spaces. As such, it has major implications for functional analysis and the calculus of variations. Roughly, it shows that weak lower semicontinuity for integral functionals is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse%20Advanced%20Energy%20Systems%20Division | Westinghouse Advanced Energy Systems Division (AESD) was a research and development facility for nonconventional renewable energy systems, in the small town of Large in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania [USA]. The site is on the east side of Pa. Rte. 51, about south of Pittsburgh. Formerly the site of the Westinghouse As... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyconvex%20function | In mathematics, the notion of polyconvexity is a generalization of the notion of convexity for functions defined on spaces of matrices. Let Mm×n(K) denote the space of all m × n matrices over the field K, which may be either the real numbers R, or the complex numbers C. A function f : Mm×n(K) → R ∪ {±∞} is said to be p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Wendell%20Horton%20Sr. | Claude Wendell Horton Sr. (September 23, 1915 Cherryvale, Kansas – March 2, 2002) was one of the principal contributors to the development of the applied research laboratories and the department of physics at The University of Texas at Austin. Between 1972 and 1975, he contributed significantly to the geophysics progra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-monotone%20operator | In mathematics, a pseudo-monotone operator from a reflexive Banach space into its continuous dual space is one that is, in some sense, almost as well-behaved as a monotone operator. Many problems in the calculus of variations can be expressed using operators that are pseudo-monotone, and pseudo-monotonicity in turn imp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browder%E2%80%93Minty%20theorem | In mathematics, the Browder–Minty theorem (sometimes called the Minty–Browder theorem) states that a bounded, continuous, coercive and monotone function T from a real, separable reflexive Banach space X into its continuous dual space X∗ is automatically surjective. That is, for each continuous linear functional g ∈ X∗,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry%20%28Johnny%20Gill%20album%29 | Chemistry is the second solo album by singer Johnny Gill. It was released on April 22, 1985.
Reception
Richard Harrington of the Washington Post wrote, "Gill is 18. He just sounds older. On his recent hit single "Half Crazy," Gill's husky, powerful baritone would lead to you to think he'd been around the love wars lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20gene%20synthesis | Artificial gene synthesis, or simply gene synthesis, refers to a group of methods that are used in synthetic biology to construct and assemble genes from nucleotides de novo. Unlike DNA synthesis in living cells, artificial gene synthesis does not require template DNA, allowing virtually any DNA sequence to be synthesi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Blokzijl | Robert "Rob" Blokzijl (21 October 1943 – 1 December 2015) was a Dutch physicist and computer scientist at the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF), and an early internet pioneer. He was founding member and chairman of RIPE, the Réseaux IP Européens (French translation of: Europeans IP Networks), the Europe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Huatian | Professor Li Huatian (1922–2007) was one of the first few computer scientists in China and was well known for his early contributions to the areas of computer science and computer networks.
Life and work
He was born on Jan 29, 1922 in Songjiang, Jiangsu (now Songjiang, Shanghai). He graduated from the National Southw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20mover%27s%20distance | In computer science, the earth mover's distance (EMD) is a distance-like measure of dissimilarity between two frequency distributions, densities, or measures over a region D.
For probability distributions and normalized histograms, it reduces to the Wasserstein metric .
Informally, if the distributions are interpreted ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20P.%20Dolciani | Mary P. Dolciani (1923–1985) was an American mathematician, known for her work with secondary-school mathematics teachers.
Education and career
Dolciani earned her Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) at Hunter College in New York City, and she completed her doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) at Cornell University in 1947 with B.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDG | TDG may refer to:
Businesses
TDG Limited, a UK logistics and distribution company
Traffic Design Group, a New Zealand consultancy
TransDigm Group, NYSE ticker symbol
Law
Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992, a Canadian law
Science
Transient directing group in organic chemistry
Thymine-DNA glycosyl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Molecular%20Genetics | Human Molecular Genetics is a semimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Oxford University Press. It covers all topics related to human molecular genetics. In addition, two "special review" issues are published each year. The editor-in-chief is CHaris Eng (Case Western Reserve University). The journa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20calculus | Rod calculus or rod calculation was the mechanical method of algorithmic computation with counting rods in China from the Warring States to Ming dynasty before the counting rods were increasingly replaced by the more convenient and faster abacus. Rod calculus played a key role in the development of Chinese mathematics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolichosaurus | Dolichosaurus (meaning "long lizard") is an extinct genus of marine squamate of the Upper Cretaceous Cenomanian chalk deposits of England. Sister-group relationships between coniasaurs, dolichosaurs, Aigialosauridae and Mosasauridae are an unresolved polytomy. The paleobiology of Dolichosaurus is reconstructed as sim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Simon | Adam Simon (born February 6, 1962) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. His directing credits include Brain Dead (1990), Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger (1992), and Carnosaur (1993). Simon, along with producer Brannon Braga, co-created the television series Salem. As a screenwriter, Simon is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity%20%28philosophy%29 | In philosophy and theology, infinity is explored in articles under headings such as the Absolute, God, and Zeno's paradoxes.
In Greek philosophy, for example in Anaximander, 'the Boundless' is the origin of all that is. He took the beginning or first principle to be an endless, unlimited primordial mass (ἄπειρον, apei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Cross%20Astronomical%20Society | The Southern Cross Astronomical Society, founded in 1922, is one of the oldest amateur astronomy societies in the Western Hemisphere. It is located in the Physics Department of Florida International University in Miami, Florida.
See also
List of astronomical societies
External links
Southern Cross Astronomical Soci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Giavazzi | Francesco Giavazzi (born 11 August 1949 in Bergamo) is an Italian economist. He is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and a regular visiting professor at MIT.
Biography
Giavazzi graduated in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano university in 1972 and obtained a PhD in economics from Massachu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corepressor | In genetics and molecular biology, a corepressor is a molecule that represses the expression of genes. In prokaryotes, corepressors are small molecules whereas in eukaryotes, corepressors are proteins. A corepressor does not directly bind to DNA, but instead indirectly regulates gene expression by binding to repressors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Wheeler%20Loomis | Francis Wheeler Loomis (August 4, 1889 – February 9, 1976), born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, was an American scientist most widely known for his contributions in the field of physics. Loomis received his undergraduate degree and, in 1917, his PhD from Harvard University. His thesis was on thermodynamic measurements ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Engineer%20Regiment%20%28Jamaica%29 | The 1 Engineer Regiment (JDF) is a unit of the Jamaica Defence Force primarily responsible for providing military and civil engineering. The regiment was formed in 1992 after a requirement was identified for increased military and civil engineering capability for the JDF than could be provided by the then existing stru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organonickel%20chemistry | Organonickel chemistry is a branch of organometallic chemistry that deals with organic compounds featuring nickel-carbon bonds. They are used as a catalyst, as a building block in organic chemistry and in chemical vapor deposition. Organonickel compounds are also short-lived intermediates in organic reactions. The firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20topology | In any domain of mathematics, a space has a natural topology if there is a topology on the space which is "best adapted" to its study within the domain in question. In many cases this imprecise definition means little more than the assertion that the topology in question arises naturally or canonically (see mathematica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%E2%80%93Hadamard%20theorem | In mathematics, the Cartan–Hadamard theorem is a statement in Riemannian geometry concerning the structure of complete Riemannian manifolds of non-positive sectional curvature. The theorem states that the universal cover of such a manifold is diffeomorphic to a Euclidean space via the exponential map at any point. It w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20Cross | Rod Cross is a physicist and retired academic of the University of Sydney. He is an expert on Alfvén waves in the field of plasma physics but his recent interest in Sports Mechanics has led him to be a consultant to the police in murder investigations, most notably the Caroline Byrne case. The New South Wales Court of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Aitken%20%28meteorologist%29 | John Aitken, FRS, FRSE LLD (18 September 1839 – 14 November 1919) was a Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer. He was one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science, who built the first apparatus to measure the number of dust and fog particles in the atmosphere, a koniscope.
Life
Aitken was b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity%20function | Singularity functions are a class of discontinuous functions that contain singularities, i.e., they are discontinuous at their singular points. Singularity functions have been heavily studied in the field of mathematics under the alternative names of generalized functions and distribution theory. The functions are nota... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Monteagle%20Barlow | Lieutenant Leonard Monteagle Barlow MC & Two Bars (5 June 1898 – 5 February 1918) was a British World War I flying ace. He was born in Islington, London and studied electrical engineering prior to joining the Royal Flying Corps.
Barlow was posted to No. 56 Squadron and scored 20 victories whilst serving with the squad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Billardon | André Billardon (born 22 October 1940) is a French politician and member of the Socialist Party. He is the current mayor of Le Creusot and used to be a Minister during Pierre Bérégovoy's term of office, while François Mitterrand was president. Billardon was a mathematics teacher prior to his involvement in local politi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20New%20York%20Journal%20of%20Mathematics | The New York Journal of Mathematics is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on algebra, analysis, geometry and topology. Its editorial board, , consists of 17 university-affiliated scholars in addition to the Editor-in-chief. Articles in the New York Journal of Mathematics are published entirely electronically (on the Worl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen%20isocyanide | Hydrogen isocyanide is a chemical with the molecular formula HNC. It is a minor tautomer of hydrogen cyanide (HCN). Its importance in the field of astrochemistry is linked to its ubiquity in the interstellar medium.
Nomenclature
Both hydrogen isocyanide and azanylidyniummethanide are correct IUPAC names for HNC. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mathematics%20Educator | The Mathematics Educator (TME) is peer-reviewed journal within the field of mathematics education. TME is produced by students, and it is published by the Mathematics Education Student Association (MESA) in the Department of Mathematics Education at the University of Georgia. MESA is an affiliate of the National Counci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%CF%80%20theorem | In mathematics, the theorem of Gromov and Thurston states a sufficient condition for Dehn filling on a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold to result in a negatively curved 3-manifold.
Let be a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold. Disjoint horoball neighborhoods of each cusp can be selected. The boundaries of these neighborhoo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Guier%20Scott | John Guier Scott (December 26, 1819 – May 16, 1892) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Scott completed preparatory studies.
He was graduated from Bethlehem Academy, Pennsylvania, in civil engineering.
He moved to Missouri in 1842.
He served as general manager of the Iron Mount... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-throughput%20computing | In computer science, high-throughput computing (HTC) is the use of many computing resources over long periods of time to accomplish a computational task.
Challenges
The HTC community is also concerned with robustness and reliability of jobs over a long-time scale. That is, being able to create a reliable system from u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%20Competition%20Center | The Student Competition Center is the home of the student competition teams at Georgia Institute of Technology. These teams include GT Motorsports, GT Offroad, Solar Racing (formerly SolarJackets), RoboJackets, Wreck Racing, HyTech Racing, and the EcoCAR team. The building, operated by the George W. Woodruff School of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincherle | Pincherle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Salvatore Pincherle (1853–1936), Italian mathematician
Pincherle derivative, in mathematics
Marc Pincherle (1888–1974), French musicologist, music critic
Alberto Pincherle (1907–1990), Italian novelist, better known by his pen name Alberto Moravia
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich%20Hagen | Ulrich Hagen (February 21, 1925 – November 25, 2007), a German scientist, is one of the German pioneers in the field of molecular radiation biology.
Hagen developed analytical techniques that would allow an examination and analysis of various types of DNA damage. He was among the first German radiation biologists to b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Glenn | Michael Theodore "Stinger" Glenn (born September 10, 1955) is an American former professional basketball player.
College career
He attended Coosa High School. Moving on to Southern Illinois University, Glenn was an All-Missouri Valley Conference college basketball player, graduating with honors and a B.S. degree in ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Limpricht | Heinrich Limpricht (21 April 1827 – 13 May 1909) was a German chemist. Limpricht was a pupil of Friedrich Wöhler; he worked on the chemistry of furans and pyrroles, discovering furan in 1870.
In 1852 he became lecturer and in 1855 extraordinary professor at the University of Göttingen. In 1860, he became ordinary pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemophobia | Chemophobia (or chemphobia or chemonoia) is an aversion to or prejudice against chemicals or chemistry. The phenomenon has been ascribed both to a reasonable concern over the potential adverse effects of synthetic chemicals, and to an irrational fear of these substances because of misconceptions about their potential f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfson%20Microelectronics | Wolfson Microelectronics plc was a microelectronics and fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland. It specialised in signal processing and mixed-signal chips for the consumer electronics market and had engineering and sales offices throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the United States. In 2014... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20Presents%20Wu-Tang%20Clan%20%26%20Friends%20Unreleased | Mathematics Presents - Wu-Tang Clan & Friends Unreleased is a compilation produced by rap music producer Mathematics. It was released on February 6, 2007 under label Nature Sounds. It contains unreleased songs by Wu-Tang Clan and their affiliates.
Later, in 2010, Mathematics produced Return of the Wu and Friends.
Tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%20Stephen%20Coles | Leslie Stephen Coles (January 19, 1941 – December 3, 2014) was an American biogerontologist who was the co-founder and executive director of the Gerontology Research Group where he conducted research on supercentenarians and aging. He was also a visiting scholar in the computer science department at the University of C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caristi%20fixed-point%20theorem | In mathematics, the Caristi fixed-point theorem (also known as the Caristi–Kirk fixed-point theorem) generalizes the Banach fixed-point theorem for maps of a complete metric space into itself. Caristi's fixed-point theorem modifies the -variational principle of Ekeland (1974, 1979). The conclusion of Caristi's theorem ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Skewes | Stanley Skewes (; 1899–1988) was a South African mathematician, best known for his discovery of the Skewes's number in 1933. He was one of John Edensor Littlewood's students at Cambridge University. Skewes's numbers contributed to the refinement of the theory of prime numbers.
Academic career
Skewes obtained a degree... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusnano | Rusnano Group () is a Russian state-established and funded company. The Rusnano Group's mission is to create competitive nanotechnology-based industry in Russia. Rusnano invests directly and through indirect funds into all major knowledge-based areas where nanotechnology is widely implemented: electronics, optics, tele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Correia%20da%20Serra | José Francisco Correia da Serra (6 June 1750 – 11 September 1823) was a Portuguese abbot, polymath, philosopher, diplomat, politician and scientist.<ref>Diogo, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro1 and Ana Simões. "The Portuguese naturalist Correia da Serra (1751–1823) and his impact on early nineteenth-century botany," Jou... |
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