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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerkat%20%28vehicle%29 | The Meerkat is the lead vehicle in the Interim Vehicle Mounted Mine Detector VMMD system, which evolved from a system known as Chubby.
The first units were delivered in 1998.
The system is manufactured by the Rolling Stock Division (RSD) of DCD-Dorbyl, a mechanical engineering conglomerate in South Africa.
The Mee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamaloddin%20Jenab | Kamaloddin Jenab (; 1908–2006) was an Iranian pioneer physicist. He is often credited for founding academic experimental science in Iranian universities.
He was the first Iranian to obtain a PhD in nuclear physics, and is often credited for laying the foundations of that science in Iran.
Born in 1908 in Isfahan, he e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20A.%20Russell | Colin Archibald Russell ( – ) was emeritus professor of history of science and technology at the Open University and was a research scholar affiliated to the History and Philosophy of Science Department, Cambridge University. His chief research interests were in the fields of the history of chemistry, environmental his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansen%20Noyes%20Jr. | Jansen Noyes Jr. (1918–2004) was an investment banker and stock brokerage company executive.
Education and career
Noyes earned a mechanical engineering degree from Cornell University in 1939. During his senior year, Noyes was elected to the Sphinx Head Society. He was chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cornell Unive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20John%20Orchard | Henry John Orchard (May 7, 1922 – June 23, 2004) was a professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and an authority on filter design and network theory. He died June 23 of 2004 at his home in Santa Monica of respiratory failure. He was 82.
In a monum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Innovation%20and%20Science | The Museum of Innovation and Science (stylized as miSci, and formerly the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium) is a museum and planetarium located in Schenectady, New York. miSci was founded in 1934 and its exhibitions and educational programming focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtinger%20inequality%20%282-forms%29 | For other inequalities named after Wirtinger, see Wirtinger's inequality.
In mathematics, the Wirtinger inequality, named after Wilhelm Wirtinger, is a fundamental result in complex linear algebra which relates the symplectic and volume forms of a hermitian inner product. It has important consequences in complex geome... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knorr-Bremse | Knorr-Bremse AG is a German manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles that has operated in the field for over 110 years. Other products in Group's portfolio include intelligent door systems, control components, air conditioning systems for rail vehicles, torsional vibration dampers, and transmiss... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Doroshkevich | Andrei Georgievich Doroshkevich (, born 1937) is a Russian (and former Soviet) theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist, head of the laboratory on the physics of the early universe at the Lebedev Physical Institute.
He is best known for his work with Igor Novikov, which they published in 1964, providing a theoretica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin-glazed%20pottery | Tin-glazed pottery is earthenware covered in lead glaze with added tin oxide which is white, shiny and opaque (see tin-glazing for the chemistry); usually this provides a background for brightly painted decoration. It has been important in Islamic and European pottery, but very little used in East Asia. The pottery bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muspratt | Muspratt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Members of one family:
James Muspratt, a chemical industrialist whose four sons who also worked in the chemical industry:
James Sheridan Muspratt, who moved into academic chemistry
Richard Muspratt, who was also a local politician in Flint, North Wales
Fre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Leigh%20%28scientist%29 | David Alan Leigh (born 1963) FRS FRSE FRSC is a British chemist, Royal Society Research Professor and, since 2014, the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He was previously the Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (2001–2012) and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunatak%20%28band%29 | Nunatak was the British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Rothera Research Station’s house band. The five person indie rock band was part of a science team investigating climate change and evolutionary biology on the Antarctic Peninsula. They are chiefly known for their participation in Live Earth in 2007, where they were the o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holstein%E2%80%93Primakoff%20transformation | In quantum mechanics, the Holstein–Primakoff transformation is a mapping between to the spin operators from boson creation and annihilation operators, effectively truncating their infinite-dimensional Fock space to finite-dimensional subspaces.
One important aspect of quantum mechanics is the occurrence of—in general—... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Journal%20of%20Neuroscience | The Journal of Neuroscience is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Society for Neuroscience. It covers empirical research on all aspects of neuroscience. Its editor-in-chief is Marina Picciotto (Yale University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 6... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution%20power | In mathematics, the convolution power is the n-fold iteration of the convolution with itself. Thus if is a function on Euclidean space Rd and is a natural number, then the convolution power is defined by
where ∗ denotes the convolution operation of functions on Rd and δ0 is the Dirac delta distribution. This defini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Tye%20%28philosopher%29 | Michael Tye (born 1950) is a British philosopher who is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He has made significant contributions to the philosophy of mind.
Education and career
Tye completed his undergraduate education at Oxford University in England, studying first physics and th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens%20de%20Haan | Laurens de Haan (born 15 January 1937) is a Dutch economist and Emeritus Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, specializing in extreme value theory.
Biography
Born in Rotterdam, De Haan received his MA in mathematics from the University of Amsterdam in 1966, and his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Antonius | Otto Antonius (21 May 1885 in Vienna – 9 April 1945 in Vienna) was director of the Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, zoologist, palaeontologist and co-founder of the modern zoological biology.
Early life
Otto Antonius was the eldest of five children. His father was Protestant minister a native of Transylvania. Otto wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limaria%20hians | Limaria hians, the flame shell, is a species of small saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Limidae. This species is native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean.
Biology
The flame shell resembles a scallop with a bright orange fringe of tentacle-like filaments emerging from between the valve of its sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatau%20Nishinaga | is the fifth president of Toyohashi University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Nagoya University in 1967. He became a professor at the engineering faculty of Toyohashi University of Technology in 1977, the engineering faculty of Nagoya University in 1980, the engineering faculty of Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfried%20Toussaint | Godfried Theodore Patrick Toussaint (1944 – July 2019) was a Canadian computer scientist, a professor of computer science, and the head of the Computer Science Program at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He is considered to be the father of computational geometry in Canada. He d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Systems%20and%20Cybernetics | The book International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics is an authoritative encyclopedia for systems theory, cybernetics, the complex systems science, which covers both theories and applications in areas as engineering, biology, medicine and social sciences. This book first published in 1997 aimed to give an ove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanvoorstia%20bennettiana | Vanvoorstia bennettiana (Bennett's seaweed) was an extinct red algae from Australia. It is named after naturalist George Bennett.
Biology
Vanvoorstia bennetiana was a small red algae. Like other members of its genus, V. bennettiana did not have significant differences in morphology throughout any phase of its life cyc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20National%20Association%20of%20Biology%20Teachers%20presidents | This is a list of the presidents of the National Association of Biology Teachers, from 1939 to the present.
2020s
2020: Sharon Gusky
2010s
2019: Sherri Annee
2018: Elizabeth Cowles
2017: Susan Finazzo
2016: Bob Melton
2015: Jane Ellis
2014: Stacey Kiser
2013: Mark Little
2012: Don French
2011: Dan Ward
201... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDR%2C%20Inc. | HDR, Inc. is an Omaha, Nebraska, United States based design and engineering service.
History
In 1917, the Henningson Engineering Company started as a civil engineering firm in Omaha, where HDR's headquarters remain today. Willard Richardson and Charles W. "Chuck" Durham joined the firm in 1939 as interns. Circa 1950, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20immersion%20%28foreign-language%20instruction%29 | Early immersion is a method of teaching and learning a foreign language. It entails having a student undergo intense instruction in a foreign language, starting by age five or six. Frequently, this method entails having the student learn all or much of his or her various "regular" subject matter (such as mathematics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic%20model%20tree | In computer science, a logistic model tree (LMT) is a classification model with an associated supervised training algorithm that combines logistic regression (LR) and decision tree learning.
Logistic model trees are based on the earlier idea of a model tree: a decision tree that has linear regression models at its lea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality%20%28physics%29 | In response theory, the quality of an excited system is related to the number of excitation frequencies to which it can respond. In the case of a homogeneous, isotropic system, the quality is proportional to the FWHM.
This sense of the phrase is the precursor of the usage of the word in music theory. In music theory, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20systems%20sciences%20organizations | Systems science is the interdisciplinary field of science surrounding systems theory, cybernetics, the science of complex systems. It aims to develop interdisciplinary foundations, which are applicable in a variety of areas, such as engineering, biology, medicine and social sciences. Systems science and systemics are n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Ginsburg | Herbert P. Ginsburg is Jacob H. Schiff Foundation Professor of Psychology & Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
He is a leading interpreter of children's understanding of mathematics, with research and teaching interests in intellectual development, mathematics education, and testing and assessment. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%20expansion%20%28potential%29 | In physics, the Laplace expansion of potentials that are directly proportional to the inverse of the distance (), such as Newton's gravitational potential or Coulomb's electrostatic potential, expresses them in terms of the spherical Legendre polynomials. In quantum mechanical calculations on atoms the expansion is use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starport%3A%20Galactic%20Empires | Starport: Galactic Empires is a free, space-oriented, massively multiplayer online role-playing game by American studio Playtechtonics which uses a third-person overhead view similar to that used in Asteroids. The game uses realistic 2-dimensional physics for both space and atmospheric travel, affecting both the moveme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamalain%20Shaath | Dr Kamalain Shaath is the current president of the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG). He has a Ph.D. degree in civil engineering. Prior to his current position, he was a professor at the Civil Engineering department at the same university. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Leeds in UK, M.Sc. from United State... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20shuttle | A molecular shuttle in supramolecular chemistry is a special type of molecular machine capable of shuttling molecules or ions from one location to another. This field is of relevance to nanotechnology in its quest for nanoscale electronic components and also to biology where many biochemical functions are based on mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKM | KKM may refer to:
Knaster–Kuratowski–Mazurkiewicz lemma, in mathematics
Kyo Kara Maoh!, a series of Japanese light novels
Kola Kolaya Mundhirika, a 2010 Tamil comedy film
KKM, a song by the music group Miracle Legion from their 1996 album Portrait of a Damaged Family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompHEP | CompHEP is a software package for automatic computations in high energy physics from Lagrangians to collision events or particle decays.
CompHEP is based on quantum theory of gauge fields, namely it uses the technique of squared Feynman diagrams at the tree-level approximation. By default, CompHEP includes the Standar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT%20Subject%20Test%20in%20Mathematics%20Level%201 | The SAT Subject Test in Mathematics Level 1 (formerly known as Math I or MathIC (the "C" representing the use of a calculator)) was the name of a one-hour multiple choice test given on algebra, geometry, basic trigonometry, algebraic functions, elementary statistics and basic foundations of calculus by The College Boa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood%20Control%20Act%20of%201941 | The Flood Control Act of 1941 was an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by US President Franklin Roosevelt that authorized civil engineering projects such as dams, levees, dikes, and other flood control measures through the United States Army Corps of Engineers and other Federal agencies. It is one of a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Output-sensitive%20algorithm | In computer science, an output-sensitive algorithm is an algorithm whose running time depends on the size of the output, instead of, or in addition to, the size of the input. For certain problems where the output size varies widely, for example from linear in the size of the input to quadratic in the size of the input,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Medical%20Repository | The Medical Repository was the first American medical journal, founded in 1797 and published quarterly, with some interruptions, through 1824. It was printed by T. & J. Swords, printers to the physics faculty at Columbia College in New York City.
The journal's founding editors were Elihu Hubbard Smith, Samuel L. Mitch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynkin%27s%20formula | In mathematics — specifically, in stochastic analysis — Dynkin's formula is a theorem giving the expected value of any suitably smooth statistic of an Itō diffusion at a stopping time. It may be seen as a stochastic generalization of the (second) fundamental theorem of calculus. It is named after the Russian mathematic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hinch%20%28mathematician%29 | Edward John Hinch (born 4 March 1947) is a Professor of fluid dynamics at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
His research covers a wide range of fluid dynamics, including micro-hydrodynamics, colloidal dispersion, flow through porous media, polymer rheology and non-Newtonian fluid ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloch%20oscillation | Bloch oscillation is a phenomenon from solid state physics. It describes the oscillation of a particle (e.g. an electron) confined in a periodic potential when a constant force is acting on it.
It was first pointed out by Felix Bloch and Clarence Zener while studying the electrical properties of crystals. In particular... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara%20Lynne%20O%27Neill | Tara Lynne O'Neill (born 18 September 1975) is a film, theatre and television actress from Northern Ireland.
Early life
During her childhood she aspired to become a dentist, but abandoned this after failing her General Certificate of Secondary Education in Chemistry. At sixth-form college she opted for a career in act... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisan%20Mehta | Kisan Mehta (31 August 1924 – 7 March 2015) was an Indian activist and President of Save Bombay Committee and Prakruti, nonprofits based in India.
Biography
Kisan Mehta was born on 31 August 1924. He has a BA Hons in History & Economics, a LL.B from the Bombay University and Diplomas in Electrical Engineering and Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadaf%20Educational%20Group | Hadaf Educational Group (, "Goruh-e Farhangi-e Hadaf") was a pioneering private educational complex, founded in Tehran in 1949. The founders include Ahmad Birashk, and a number of well-known high school teachers of mathematics and natural sciences, including Ahmad Anwari, Taqi Hurfar, Ali Motemadden and Ahmad Reza Qoli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20Campbell | Rod Campbell (born 4 May 1945) is a Scottish author and illustrator of several popular children's books including the classic lift-the-flap board book Dear Zoo.
Born in Scotland in 1945, he was brought up in Zimbabwe and returned to Britain where he completed a doctorate in organic chemistry. In 1980 he became involve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaka%20equation | In mathematics, Tanaka's equation is an example of a stochastic differential equation which admits a weak solution but has no strong solution. It is named after the Japanese mathematician Hiroshi Tanaka (Tanaka Hiroshi).
Tanaka's equation is the one-dimensional stochastic differential equation
driven by canonical Bro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C3%B4%20diffusion | In mathematics – specifically, in stochastic analysis – an Itô diffusion is a solution to a specific type of stochastic differential equation. That equation is similar to the Langevin equation used in physics to describe the Brownian motion of a particle subjected to a potential in a viscous fluid. Itô diffusions are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicon%20Pharmaceuticals | Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for human disease. The company was founded in 1995 in The Woodlands, Texas under the name Lexicon Genetics, Incorporated by co-founders Professor Allan Bradley, FRS and Professor Bradley's postdoctoral fellow Arthur T Sands. The company ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20measure | In mathematics, especially potential theory, harmonic measure is a concept related to the theory of harmonic functions that arises from the solution of the classical Dirichlet problem. In probability theory, the harmonic measure of a subset of the boundary of a bounded domain in Euclidean space , is the probability t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo%20Porrati | Massimo Porrati (born 1961 in Genova, Italy) is a professor of physics and a member of the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics at New York University. He graduated from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy with a "Diploma di Scienze" degree in 1985. Later he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and UC B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Science%20and%20Natural%20History%20Museum | The Texas Science & Natural History Museum is located on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, U.S. It opened as the Texas Memorial Museum during preparations for the Texas Centennial Exposition held in 1936. The museum's focus is on natural history, including paleontology, geology, biology,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Increment%20theorem | In nonstandard analysis, a field of mathematics, the increment theorem states the following: Suppose a function is differentiable at and that is infinitesimal. Then
for some infinitesimal , where
If then we may write
which implies that , or in other words that is infinitely close to , or is the standard part o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Cruickshank%20%28chemist%29 | William Cruickshank (born circa 1740 or 1750, died 1810 or 1811) was a Scottish military surgeon and chemist, and professor of chemistry at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
William Cruickshank was awarded a diploma by the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 5 October 1780. In March 1788 he became assistant t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial%20supercharging%20effect | The inertial supercharging effect is the increase of volumetric efficiency in the cylinder of an engine.
Background
The internal combustion engine is the most common engine found in mechanical devices across the world. The engine is powered by an air/gasoline mixture and the physics principles of heat and pressure.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Contortionist%27s%20Handbook | The Contortionist's Handbook is the debut novel by American novelist Craig Clevenger.
Plot summary
John Dolan Vincent is a talented young forger with a proclivity for mathematics and drug addiction. In the face of his impending institutionalization, he continually reinvents himself to escape the legal and mental healt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole%20moment | Dipole moment may refer to:
Electric dipole moment, the measure of the electrical polarity of a system of charges
Transition dipole moment, the electrical dipole moment in quantum mechanics
Molecular dipole moment, the electric dipole moment of a molecule.
Bond dipole moment, the measure of polarity of a chemical bon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-myc%20mRNA | C-myc mRNA is a type of mRNA that serves as a template for the MYC protein which is implicated in the rapid growth of cancer cells. This mRNA is a topic of ongoing research to investigate the viability of preventing cancer growth by cleaving or degrading the c-myc mRNA.
See also
C-myc
References
RNA
Molecular biolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Zhegalkin | Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin (; 3 August 1869, Mtsensk – 28 March 1947, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician. He is best known for his formulation of Boolean algebra as the theory of the ring of integers mod 2, via what are now called Zhegalkin polynomials.
Zhegalkin was professor of mathematics at Moscow State ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20William%20Clough | Ray William Clough, (July 23, 1920 – October 8, 2016), was Byron L. and Elvira E. Nishkian Professor of structural engineering in the department of civil engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the founders of the finite element method (FEM). His article in 1956 was one of the first application... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20problems%20in%20loop%20theory%20and%20quasigroup%20theory | In mathematics, especially abstract algebra, loop theory and quasigroup theory are active research areas with many open problems. As in other areas of mathematics, such problems are often made public at professional conferences and meetings. Many of the problems posed here first appeared in the Loops (Prague) conferen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Devine%20%28writer%29 | Elizabeth Devine (born Elizabeth Kornblum in 1961) is an American crime scene investigator, notable as a writer and co-producer of the crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Education
Devine holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from UCLA and a Master of Science degree in Criminalistics from CSULA.
Caree... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanox | Tanox was a biopharmaceutical company based in Houston, Texas. The company was founded by two biomedical research scientists, Nancy T. Chang and Tse Wen Chang in March 1986 with $250,000, which was a large part of their family savings at that time. Both Changs grew up and received college education in chemistry in Nati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation%20of%20mechanism%20and%20policy | The separation of mechanism and policy is a design principle in computer science. It states that mechanisms (those parts of a system implementation that control the authorization of operations and the allocation of resources) should not dictate (or overly restrict) the policies according to which decisions are made ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20measure | In mathematics — specifically, in stochastic analysis — the Green measure is a measure associated to an Itō diffusion. There is an associated Green formula representing suitably smooth functions in terms of the Green measure and first exit times of the diffusion. The concepts are named after the British mathematician... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20F.%20Dezendorf | John Frederick Dezendorf (August 10, 1834 – June 22, 1894) was a U.S. representative from Virginia.
Biography
Born in Lansingburgh, New York, Dezendorf pursued an academic course.
Learned the carpenter's trade.
He studied architecture and civil engineering.
He engaged in railroad and other building at Toledo and Cleve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Turnbull%20%28materials%20scientist%29 | David Turnbull (February 18, 1915 – April 28, 2007) was an American physical chemist who worked in the interdisciplinary fields of materials science and applied physics. Turnbull made seminal contribution to solidification theory and glass formation. Turnbull was born in Elmira, Elmira Township, Stark County, Illinois... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Nimmer | Raymond Theodore Nimmer (19442018) was an attorney and former dean of the University of Houston Law Center in Houston, Texas.
Biography
Education and early life
Raymond T. Nimmer was born in Illinois May 2, 1944. He received a B.A. in mathematics in 1966 from Valparaiso University. He received a J.D. degree which wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast%20Asian%20long-fingered%20bat | The Southeast Asian long-fingered bat (Miniopterus fuscus) is a species of vesper bat in the family Miniopteridae. It is endemic to Japan and has been assessed as endangered by the IUCN.
Description and biology
The bat has an average body mass of and a forearm length of . Females give birth to a single young in earl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrofan%20Cioban | Mitrofan Cioban (5 January 1942 – 2 February 2021) was a Moldovan mathematician specializing in topology, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (2000).
He was born in Copceac (then in Tighina County, Romania, now in Ștefan Vodă District, Moldova), the son of Mihail and Tecla Cioban. At age 17 he enrolled in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20measure%20theory | In mathematics, geometric measure theory (GMT) is the study of geometric properties of sets (typically in Euclidean space) through measure theory. It allows mathematicians to extend tools from differential geometry to a much larger class of surfaces that are not necessarily smooth.
History
Geometric measure theory w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Paquette | Leo Armand Paquette ( – January 21, 2019) was an American organic chemist.
Biography
Paquette was born on July 15, 1934. He received his B.S. degree in 1956 from the College of the Holy Cross and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959 with professor Norman Allan Nelson. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirton%27s%20deer%20mouse | Stirton's deer mouse (Peromyscus stirtoni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. P. stirtoni is widely distributed and is presumed to have a large population and a tolerance of habitat destruction, though its biology is poorly understood. The sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Ritchie | Matthew Ritchie (born 1964) is a British artist who currently lives and works in New York City. He attended the Camberwell School of Art from 1983 to 1986. He describes himself as "classically trained" but also points to a minimalist influence. His art revolves around a personal mythology drawn from creation myths, pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20encryption | In modern cryptography, null encryption (or selecting null cipher or NONE cipher) is choosing not to use encryption in a system where various encryption options are offered. When this option is used, the text is the same before and after encryption, which can be practical for testing/debugging, or authentication-only c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rethinking%20Mathematics | Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers is a 2005 book (2nd edition 2013) edited by Eric Gutstein and Bob Peterson, advocating a mathematics education curriculum that intertwines mathematics with social justice. The various essays in the book, including "Home Buying While Brown or Black" and "Swe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eikonal%20approximation | In theoretical physics, the eikonal approximation (Greek εἰκών for likeness, icon or image) is an approximative method useful in wave scattering equations which occur in optics, seismology, quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and partial wave expansion.
Informal description
The main advantage that the eikonal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remez%20inequality | In mathematics, the Remez inequality, discovered by the Soviet mathematician Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez , gives a bound on the sup norms of certain polynomials, the bound being attained by the Chebyshev polynomials.
The inequality
Let σ be an arbitrary fixed positive number. Define the class of polynomials πn(σ) to be t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobitis%20maroccana | Cobitis maroccana is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cobitidae.
Taxonomy
The taxonomy of the Cobitis marrocana is as follows:
Kingdom-Animalia
Phylum-Chordata
Class-Actinopterygii
Order-Cypriniformes
Family-Cobitidae
Biology
Cobitis marrocana is now recorded to be least concern. It now has a competitor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20nucleolar%20RNA%20snoR9%20plant | In molecular biology, snoR9 is a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) which functions in the biogenesis (modification) of other small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs). It is known as a small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) and also often referred to as a 'guide RNA'.
R9 is a member of the C/D box class of snoRNAs which contain the conserved sequence ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid%20harmonics | In physics and mathematics, the solid harmonics are solutions of the Laplace equation in spherical polar coordinates, assumed to be (smooth) functions . There are two kinds: the regular solid harmonics , which are well-defined at the origin and the irregular solid harmonics , which are singular at the origin. Both sets... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asoka%20barb | The Asoka barb (Systomus asoka) is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Sri Lanka where it is found in the upper reaches of the Sitawaka River and its tributaries, and Kelani near Kitulgala. This fish can reach a length of TL.
Biology
Asoka barb inhabit relatively deep (1–2 m), fast-flowing water in areas with grave... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer%27s%20tusked%20silverside | Mercer's tusked silverside (Dentatherina merceri) is a species of fish.
Mercer's tusked silverside originates from the west-central Pacific. It is found from the Philippines to north-eastern Australia and from Moluccas to the Trobriand Islands. It is found close in shore around islands and over coral reefs. Except for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Federer | Herbert Federer (July 23, 1920 – April 21, 2010) was an American mathematician. He is one of the creators of geometric measure theory, at the meeting point of differential geometry and mathematical analysis.
Career
Federer was born July 23, 1920, in Vienna, Austria. After emigrating to the US in 1938, he studied mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Yates%20%28chemist%29 | John T. Yates Jr. (August 3, 1935 – September 2015) was an American chemist. He was an investigator in the field of surface chemistry and physics, including both the structure and spectroscopy of atoms and molecules on surfaces, the dynamics of surface processes and the development of new methods for research in surfac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Max%20Planck%20Research%20School%20for%20Molecular%20and%20Cellular%20Biology | The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Biology (IMPRS-MCB) is an international PhD program in molecular biology and cellular biology founded in 2006 by the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics and the University of Freiburg.
The Max Planck Society (MPG) started in 2000... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi-Kuo%20Chang | Shi-Kuo Chang () is a computer scientist and writer best-known for his science fiction novels and short stories.
Life and career
Chang was born in Chongqing in 1944 and grew up in Taiwan. After completing an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at National Taiwan University, Chang arrived in the United Stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Costello%20%28software%20executive%29 | Joseph Ball Costello (born December 6, 1953) is an American executive in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. He was president and COO of SDA Systems from 1987–1988 and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, which became the largest EDA company under his tenure, from 1988–1997.
Education
Joseph received his B.S. i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20L.%20Herbold | Patricia Louise Herbold (born 1940) is a chemist, former city mayor, and the former United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore.
Early life
Ambassador Herbold was born in and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received a B.A. in chemistry from Edgecliff College (now part of Xavier University) in Cincinnati in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20systems%20science%20journals | Systems science is an interdisciplinary field of science that studies the nature of complex systems in nature, society, and science. It aims to develop interdisciplinary foundations, which are applicable in a variety of areas, such as engineering, biology, medicine and social sciences.
Systems sciences covers formal s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9tur%20Bl%C3%B6ndal | Pétur Haraldsson Blöndal (24 June 1944 – 26 June 2015) was an Icelandic parliamentarian in the Icelandic Independence Party and was president in the committees of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Social Affairs Committee and Health and Ensurance Committee.
He held a doctorate in mathematics fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20American%20Field%20Trip | The American Field Trip is an educational film series that explores unique places of interest across the USA. Episode titles include Exploring Marine Biology, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, and Exploring Space Technology at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Texas. The series won a CINE competition Golden Ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus%20wangii | Pinus wangii, commonly known as the Guangdong white pine (), is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae.
It was named after Dr. Shao-Ping Wang, a professor of forest genetics.
Distribution
This pine tree is native to Yunnan Province of southern China, where two populations are known from Wenshan Prefecture. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%20switch | In theoretical network science, the Turing switch is a logical construction modeling the operation of the network switch, just as in theoretical computer science a Turing machine models the operation of a computer. Both are named in honor of the English logician Alan Turing, although the research in Turing switches is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20%28disambiguation%29 | Math (or maths in non-American English-speaking countries) is an abbreviation of mathematics.
Math or Maths may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
Fictional characters
Math, a character on the TV series Life Unexpected
Math fab Mathonwy, a king in Welsh mythology
Mathematical Anti Telharsic Harfatum Septom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford%20Underground%20Research%20Facility | The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), or Sanford Lab, is an underground laboratory in Lead, South Dakota. The deepest underground laboratory in the United States, it houses multiple experiments in areas such as dark matter and neutrino physics research, biology, geology and engineering. There are currently ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitesimal%20generator%20%28stochastic%20processes%29 | In mathematics — specifically, in stochastic analysis — the infinitesimal generator of a Feller process (i.e. a continuous-time Markov process satisfying certain regularity conditions) is a Fourier multiplier operator that encodes a great deal of information about the process.
The generator is used in evolution equat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Donoghue | John Donoghue may refer to:
John Donoghue (neuroscientist), professor of neuroscience at Brown University; co-founder of Cyberkinetics
John Donoghue (writer) (born 1964), British humorist
John Donoghue (footballer) (1903–?), Scottish football player
John Francis Donoghue (1928–2011), American Roman Catholic bishop
John... |
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