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Jaswant Singh–Bhattacharji stain , commonly referred to as JSB stain , is a rapid staining method for detection of malaria . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is useful for the diagnosis of malaria in thick smear samples of blood. [ 3 ] The JSB stain is commonly used throughout India , but rarely used in other countries. [ 4 ] The JSB s...
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java.net was [ 1 ] a Java technology related community website. It also offered a web-based source code repository for Java projects. It was shut down in April 2017. java.net was announced by Sun Microsystems during JavaOne 2003. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In January 2010, Oracle announced that it will migrate java.net portal to Pr...
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JavaPOS (short for Java for Point of Sale Devices ), is a standard for interfacing point of sale (POS) software, written in Java , with the specialized hardware peripherals typically used to create a point-of-sale system. The advantages are reduced POS terminal costs, platform independence, and reduced administrative c...
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Java APIs for Integrated Networks ( JAIN ) is an activity within the Java Community Process , developing APIs for the creation of telephony (voice and data) services. Originally, JAIN stood for Java APIs for Intelligent Network . The name was later changed to Java APIs for Integrated Networks to reflect the widening sc...
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Java Agent Template (JAT) , is a fully functional Java template, for building software agents that can communicate in a P2P distributed network over the Internet . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This computing article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
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Java Platform, Micro Edition or Java ME is a computing platform for development and deployment of portable code for embedded and mobile devices (micro-controllers, sensors, gateways, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, TV set-top boxes, printers). [ 1 ] Java ME was formerly known as Java 2 Platform, Micro Editi...
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Java Platform, Standard Edition ( Java SE ) is a computing platform for development and deployment of portable code for desktop and server environments. [ 1 ] Java SE was formerly known as Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition ( J2SE ). The platform uses the Java programming language and is part of the Java software-platf...
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The Java Research License ( JRL ) is a software distribution license created by Sun in an effort to simplify and relax the terms from the "research section" of the Sun Community Source License . Sun's J2SE 1.6.0, Mustang , is licensed under the JRL as well as many projects at Java.net . The JRL was introduced in 2003...
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A Java logging framework is a computer data logging package for the Java platform . This article covers general purpose logging frameworks. Logging refers to the recording of activity by an application and is a common issue for development teams. Logging frameworks ease and standardize the process of logging for the ...
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The Java language has undergone several changes since JDK 1.0 as well as numerous additions of classes and packages to the standard library . Since J2SE 1.4, the evolution of the Java language has been governed by the Java Community Process (JCP), which uses Java Specification Requests (JSRs) to propose and specify add...
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Jay Hyung Lee ( Korean : 이재형) is a professor at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). His h-index is 55 according to Google Scholar . [ 2 ] Lee was a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States from 2000 to 2010. [ 3 ] Le...
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Jay Hambidge (1867–1924) was an American artist who formulated the theory of "dynamic symmetry", a system defining compositional rules, which was adopted by several notable American and Canadian artists in the early 20th century. He was a pupil at the Art Students' League in New York and of William Merritt Chase , and...
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Jay Quade (born December 13, 1955) is an American geochemist and geologist and former middle-distance runner . He is known for pioneering research applying geochemical isotopic methods for investigations of tectonics , global climate change , and the paleontology of Darwinian evolution. [ 1 ] Jay Quade was born and gr...
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Jean-Claude Bradley was a chemist who actively promoted Open Science in chemistry, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] including at the White House , [ 6 ] for which he was awarded the Blue Obelisk award in 2007. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] He coined the term " Open Notebook science ". He died in May 2014. [ 2 ] [ 8 ] A memorial symposium was held July 14, 2...
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Jean-Claude Duplessy , born in 1942, is a French geochemist . He is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS [ 1 ] and a member of the French Academy of Sciences . [ 2 ] Jean-Claude Duplessy, a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), a physics graduate, is a geochemist. His work has contributed to a bet...
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Jean-Joseph Kapeller (24 July 1706 – 29 November 1790) was a French painter, architect and geometer . [ 1 ] Born in Marseille he was influenced by Jean-Baptiste de La Rose and Joseph Vernet , mainly producing landscapes and seascapes such as his 1756 masterwork Embarcation of the Expeditionary Corps for Minorca at the ...
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Jean-Louis Loday (12 January 1946 – 6 June 2012) was a French mathematician who worked on cyclic homology and who introduced Leibniz algebras (sometimes called Loday algebras) and Zinbiel algebras . [ 1 ] He occasionally used the pseudonym Guillaume William Zinbiel , formed by reversing the last name of Gottfried Wilhe...
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Jean-Marie Tarascon FRSC (born September 21, 1953) is professor of chemistry at the Collège de France in Paris and director of the French Research Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Tarascon was educated at the University of Bordeaux , where he was awarded a Diplôme d'études ...
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Jean-Michel Emmanuel Salanskis (born 5 April 1951 in Paris) is a French philosopher and mathematician , professor of science and philosophy at the University of Paris X Nanterre . Originally gaining a Diplôme d'études approfondies in pure mathematics , he went on to study philosophy with Luis Puig and Jean-Francois Ly...
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Jean-Pierre Serre ( French: [sɛʁ] ; born 15 September 1926) is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology , algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory . He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954, the Wolf Prize in 2000 and the inaugural Abel Prize in 2003. Born in Bages , Pyrénées-Orient...
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Jean-Raymond Abrial (born 6 November 1938) [ 1 ] is a French computer scientist and inventor of the Z and B formal methods . [ 2 ] Abrial was a student at the École Polytechnique (class of 1958). Abrial's 1974 paper Data Semantics [ 3 ] laid the foundation for a formal approach to Data Models ; although not adopted d...
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Jean Cavaillès ( / k ɑː v aɪ ˈ ɛ s / ; French: [ʒɑ̃ kavajɛs] ; 15 May 1903 – 4 April 1944) was a French philosopher and logician who specialized in philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science . He took part in the French Resistance within the Libération movement and was arrested by the Gestapo on 17 February 19...
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Jean M.J. Fréchet (born August 1944) is a French-American chemist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley . He is best known for his work on polymers including polymer-supported chemistry, chemically amplified photoresists, dendrimers, macroporous separation media, and polymers for therapeutic...
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Jean Lynch-Stieglitz is a paleoceanographer known for her research on reconstructing changes in ocean circulation over the last 100,000 years. An interest in the natural world, combined with the logic of science and math, attracted Lynch-Stieglitz to science and after a summer at the Duke University Marine Laboratory ...
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Jean Marcel Rouxel (February 24, 1935 in Malestroit – March 19, 1998 in Nantes ) was a French synthetic chemist known for his work in solid state synthesis of low-dimensional materials. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He pioneered the use of solid precursors in soft chemistry . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Rouxel studied at the University of Rennes...
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Jean Weissenbach (born 13 February 1946) is a French biologist. He is the current director of the Genoscope . He is one of the pioneers of sequencing and genome analysis. [ 1 ] This article about a French biologist is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . This article about a geneticist or evolutionary bi...
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Jean Louis Maxime van Heijenoort ( / v æ n ˈ h aɪ . ə n ɔːr t / van HY -ə-nort ; French: [ʒɑ̃ lwi maksim van‿ɛjɛnɔʁt] ; Dutch: [vɑn ˈɦɛiənoːrt] ; July 23, 1912 – March 29, 1986) was a historian of mathematical logic . He was also a personal secretary to Leon Trotsky from 1932 to 1939, and an American Trotskyist until 1...
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Jeanette Grasselli Brown (born Jeanette Gecsy; August 4, 1928) is an American analytical chemist and spectroscopist who is known for her work with Standard Oil of Ohio (now BP America ) as an industrial researcher in the field of spectroscopy . Spectroscopy is a technique used to measure the interaction of electromagn...
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Jeannette Elizabeth Brown (born May 13, 1934 [ 1 ] ) is a retired American organic medicinal chemist, historian, and author. Brown was born in 1934 in The Bronx, New York . According to Brown, when she was young, she contracted tuberculosis, and was treated by Arthur Logan. Logan was a young African-American in his in...
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In astrophysics and statistical mechanics , Jeans's theorem , named after James Jeans , states that any steady-state solution of the collisionless Boltzmann equation depends on the phase space coordinates only through integrals of motion in the given potential, and conversely any function of the integrals is a steady-s...
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The Jeans instability is a concept in astrophysics that describes an instability that leads to the gravitational collapse of a cloud of gas or dust. [ 1 ] It causes the collapse of interstellar gas clouds and subsequent star formation. It occurs when the internal gas pressure is not strong enough to prevent the gravita...
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A Jecklin disk is a sound-absorbing disk placed between two microphones to create an acoustic "shadow" from one microphone to the other. The resulting two signals can produce a pleasing stereo effect on headphones and loudspeakers but are sometimes not fully mono-compatible. A matching pair of small-diaphragm omnidirec...
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Jeehiun Katherine Lee is an organic chemist and a professor in the department of chemistry at Rutgers University . She currently runs a research lab on the New Brunswick campus. [ 1 ] Although she is an organic chemist by training, she has expanded her research field to biological chemistry, using mass spectrometry , ...
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The jeep problem , [ 1 ] desert crossing problem [ 2 ] or exploration problem [ 3 ] is a mathematics problem in which a jeep must maximize the distance it can travel into a desert with a given quantity of fuel. The jeep can only carry a fixed and limited amount of fuel, but it can leave fuel and collect fuel at fuel du...
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Jeevan Pramaan is an Indian Life Certificate program affiliated with Aadhaar for people with pensions. [ 1 ] It was started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 10 November 2014. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The certificate was made for people who receive pensions from central or state governments or other government organisations. [ 1 ...
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Jeewanu ( Sanskrit for "particles of life") are synthetic chemical particles that possess cell -like structure and seem to have some functional properties; that is, they are a model of primitive cells, or protocells . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was first synthesised by Krishna Bahadur (20 January 1926 — 5 August 1994), an In...
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In fluid dynamics Jeffery–Hamel flow is a flow created by a converging or diverging channel with a source or sink of fluid volume at the point of intersection of the two plane walls. It is named after George Barker Jeffery (1915) [ 1 ] and Georg Hamel (1917), [ 2 ] but it has subsequently been studied by many major sci...
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Jeffrey Robert Long is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley known for his work in metal−organic frameworks and molecular magnetism . He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 [ 1 ] and is the 2019 F. Albert Cotton Award recipient. His research interests include: t...
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Jeffrey Skolnick is an American computational biologist . He is currently a Georgia Institute of Technology School of Biology Professor, the Director of the Center for the Study of Systems Biology , the Mary and Maisie Gibson Chair, the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology, the Dir...
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Jeju Samdasoo ( Korean : 제주삼다수 ) is a brand of mineral water produced by Jeju province development corporation, manufactured by Kwangdong Pham. It is the only volcanic bedrock water in South Korea , and the plant is located in the Gyorae-ri, Jocheon-eup, Jeju City , Jeju Province . [ 1 ] The product has achieved annual...
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Jellium , also known as the uniform electron gas ( UEG ) or homogeneous electron gas ( HEG ), is a quantum mechanical model of interacting free electrons in a solid where the complementary positive charges are not atomic nuclei but instead an idealized background of uniform positive charge density. This model allows on...
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Jelly-falls are marine carbon cycling events whereby gelatinous zooplankton , primarily cnidarians , sink to the seafloor and enhance carbon and nitrogen fluxes via rapidly sinking particulate organic matter . [ 1 ] These events provide nutrition to benthic megafauna and bacteria . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Jelly-falls have been imp...
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Jemma Redmond (16 March 1978 – 16 August 2016) was an Irish biotechnology pioneer and innovator. She was a co-founder of 3D bio-printing firm Ourobotics, developers of the first-ever ten-material bio-printer. [ 1 ] Redmond designed a way of keeping living cells alive while printed using 3D printers, [ 2 ] making her a ...
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In chemistry , the Jemmis mno rules represent a unified rule for predicting and systematizing structures of compounds , usually clusters . The rules involve electron counting. They were formulated by E. D. Jemmis to explain the structures of condensed polyhedral boranes such as B 20 H 16 , which are obtained by condens...
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The Jena Declaration is a scientific statement that questions and refutes the concept of human " races in a biological sense ". It was published in September 2019 at the 112th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft) in Jena. The statement was written by leading scientists fro...
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Jennifer Pietenpol is Chief Scientific and Strategic Officer, Executive Vice-President for Research, and the Ingram Professor of Cancer Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center . [ 1 ] Pietenpol additionally serves as the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer. [ 2 ] Pieten...
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Jennifer L. M. Rupp FRSC (born January 27, 1980) is a material scientist and professor at the Technical University of Munich , visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CTO for battery research at TUM International Energy Research. Rupp has published more than 130 papers in peer reviewed j...
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Jenny Zhenqi Zhang is a Chinese-Australian chemist and BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellow of the Department of Chemistry , University of Cambridge , where she is also a Fellow of Corpus Christi College (2019-present). She was awarded the 2020 RSC Felix Franks Biotechnology Medal for her research into re-wiring photos...
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In mathematics , Jensen's inequality , named after the Danish mathematician Johan Jensen , relates the value of a convex function of an integral to the integral of the convex function. It was proved by Jensen in 1906, [ 1 ] building on an earlier proof of the same inequality for doubly-differentiable functions by Otto ...
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Jeremy Keith Burdett (July 1, 1947 – June 23, 1997), or Jeremy K. Burdett , was a British-American chemist known for his work on bridging the gap [ 1 ] between molecular science and solid state chemistry from an electron orbital viewpoint. [ 2 ] Burdett was a native of London, UK. He studied at the Magdalene College ,...
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Jeremy Henley Burroughes FREng FRS (born August 1960) is a British physicist and engineer , known for his contributions to the development of organic electronics through his work on the science of semiconducting polymers and molecules and their application. [ 6 ] He is the Chief Technology Officer of Cambridge Display ...
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Jerk (also known as jolt [ 1 ] ) is the rate of change of an object's acceleration over time. It is a vector quantity (having both magnitude and direction). Jerk is most commonly denoted by the symbol j and expressed in m/s 3 ( SI units ) or standard gravities per second [ 2 ] ( g 0 /s). As a vector, jerk j can be exp...
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Jerry March , Ph.D. (August 1, 1929 – December 25, 1997) was an American organic chemist and a professor of chemistry at Adelphi University . March authored the March's Advanced Organic Chemistry text, which is considered to be a pillar of graduate-level organic chemistry texts. The book was prepared in its fifth edi...
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Jervine is a steroidal alkaloid with molecular formula C 27 H 39 NO 3 which is derived from the plant genus Veratrum . Similar to cyclopamine , which also occurs in the genus Veratrum , it is a teratogen implicated in birth defects when consumed by animals during a certain period of their gestation . [ citation needed ...
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Jesper deClaville Christiansen (born 30 June 1963 in Skive, Denmark) is a Danish professor in Materials Science and Technology. Professor Christiansen is known for his work in the field of mechanics of polymers, diffusion, rheology and micro and nano composites especially. [ 1 ] Professor Jesper deClaville Christianse...
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Jesse Gelsinger (June 18, 1981 – September 17, 1999) was the first person publicly identified as having died in a clinical trial for gene therapy . Gelsinger suffered from ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency , an X-linked genetic disease of the liver , the symptoms of which include an inability to metabolize ammonia ...
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Jesse Eugene Russell (born April 26, 1948) is an American inventor. He was trained as an electrical engineer at Tennessee State University and Stanford University , and worked in the field of wireless communication for over 20 years. He holds patents and continues to invent and innovate in the emerging area of next gen...
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Jesse Sullivan (born c. 1966) is an American electrician best known for operating a fully robotic limb through a nerve-muscle graft, making him one of the first non-fictional cyborgs . His bionic arm, a prototype developed by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago , differs from most other prostheses, in that it does...
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In mathematics, the Jessen–Wintner theorem , introduced by Jessen and Wintner ( 1935 ), asserts that a random variable of Jessen–Wintner type , meaning the sum of an almost surely convergent series of independent discrete random variables, is of pure type. This probability -related article is a stub . You can help Wi...
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A jet is a stream of fluid that is projected into a surrounding medium, usually from some kind of a nozzle , aperture or orifice . [ 1 ] Jets can travel long distances [ quantify ] without dissipating . Jet fluid has higher speed compared to the surrounding fluid medium. In the case that the surrounding medium is assu...
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris (abbreviated JPL DE (number), or simply DE (number)) designates one of a series of mathematical models of the Solar System produced at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California , for use in spacecraft navigation and astronomy. The models consist of numeric rep...
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Jet aerators are applied across a wide range of water, wastewater and biosolids treatment applications. Their primary purpose is to transfer oxygen to the liquid or sludge. A Jet aerator works through aspirating technology by simultaneously introducing large volumes of high kinetic energy liquid and air through one or ...
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In differential topology , the jet bundle is a certain construction that makes a new smooth fiber bundle out of a given smooth fiber bundle. It makes it possible to write differential equations on sections of a fiber bundle in an invariant form. Jets may also be seen as the coordinate free versions of Taylor expansions...
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In mass spectrometry , jet disrupters are specialized electrodes within ion funnels that counteract the effects of directed gas flow. Acting as physical barriers to neutral molecules , they disperse gas molecules and charged droplets while improving ion transmission and reducing vacuum system demands. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]...
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A jet engine is a type of reaction engine , discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion . While this broad definition may include rocket , water jet , and hybrid propulsion, the term jet engine typically refers to an internal combustion air-breathing jet engine such...
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A jet fire is a high temperature flame of burning fuel released under pressure in a particular orientation. The material burned is a continuous stream of flammable gas, liquid or a two-phase mixture. A jet fire is a significant hazard in process and storage plants which handle or keep flammable fluids under pressure. T...
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Jet force is the exhaust from some machine, especially aircraft, propelling the object itself in the opposite direction as per Newton's third law . An understanding of jet force is intrinsic to the launching of drones, satellites, rockets, airplanes and other airborne machines. Jet force begins with some propulsion sy...
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Jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel ( ATF , also abbreviated avtur ) is a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines . It is colorless to straw-colored in appearance. The most commonly used fuels for commercial aviation are Jet A and Jet A-1, which are produced to a standardized int...
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In mathematics , a jet group is a generalization of the general linear group which applies to Taylor polynomials instead of vectors at a point. A jet group is a group of jets that describes how a Taylor polynomial transforms under changes of coordinate systems (or, equivalently, diffeomorphisms ). The k -th order jet...
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In aeroacoustics , jet noise is the field that focuses on the noise generation caused by high-velocity jets and the turbulent eddies generated by shearing flow. Such noise is known as broadband noise and extends well beyond the range of human hearing (100 kHz and higher). Jet noise is also responsible for some of the ...
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A Jewell water filter was a system of sand filters for filtering and treating water for drinking purposes that made use of gravity to allow water to percolate through a column of sand inside cylindrical cisterns that was widely used in the early twentieth century. They are named after Omar Hestrian Jewell (1 July 1842 ...
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The Jeyranbatan Ultrafiltration Water Treatment Plants Complex is a water filtration plant in Baku , Azerbaijan . The plant, designed to supply Baku and the Absheron Peninsula with drinking water, was put into operation on 28 October 2015. The capacity of the ultrafiltration (UF) plant is 6.6 cubic meters of water per ...
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A jib or jib arm is the horizontal or near-horizontal beam used in many types of crane to support the load clear of the main support. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An archaic spelling is gib . [ 3 ] Usually jib arms are attached to a vertical mast or tower or sometimes to an inclined boom . In other jib-less designs such as derricks ,...
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Jig concentrators are devices used mainly in the mining industry for mineral processing , to separate particles within the ore body, based on their specific gravity ( relative density ). [ 1 ] The particles would usually be of a similar size, often crushed and screened prior to being fed over the jig bed . There are m...
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Jigar Shah (born August 30, 1974) was the director of the Loan Programs Office in the US Department of Energy from March 2021 to January 2025. [ 1 ] Since the passing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act through Congress in 2021 and 2022, the funds to the Loan Programs Office increa...
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A jiggle syphon (or siphon) is the combination of a syphon pipe and a simple priming pump that uses mechanical shaking action to pump enough liquid up the pipe to reach the highest point, and thus start the syphoning action. The jiggle pump consists of a chamber, in line with the end of the pipe that sits in the liqui...
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B. Jill Venton is a professor of chemistry at University of Virginia , where she serves as the department chair since 2019. [ 1 ] Venton's research focuses on developing analytical chemistry methods to enable detection of molecules in the brain. Venton received her BS in Chemistry from University of Delaware in 1998 a...
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Jameel Sadik " Jim " Al-Khalili ( Arabic : جميل صادق الخليلي ; born 20 September 1962) [ 4 ] is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist and science populariser. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in science at the University of Surrey . He is a regular broadcaster and presenter of ...
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Jim Falk (born 26 October 1946) is an Australian physicist and academic researcher on science and technology studies . Falk was born in Oxford , England. His father was the philosopher Werner D. Falk (latterly professor at the University of North Carolina [ 1 ] ), and his mother an Australian, Dr. Barbara Cohen. [ 2 ]...
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William James Kent (born February 10, 1960) is an American research scientist and computer programmer . He has been a contributor to genome database projects and the 2003 winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award . Kent was born in Hawaii and grew up in San Francisco, California , United States . Kent began his programmi...
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Jimm is an alternative open-source instant messaging client for the ICQ network. It is written in Java ME and should work in most of mobile devices that follow MIDP specification. Jimm is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License . Creator of Jimm is Manuel Linsmayer. In 2003 he released a client Mob...
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Jing Li ( Chinese : 李静 ) [ 1 ] is a Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University , New Jersey , United States . She and her team are engaged in solid-state , inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials research. [ 2 ] Her current research focuses on designing and developing ...
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Jinhua Ye is a Chinese chemist who is a professor at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba . Her research considers high-temperature superconductors for photocatalysis. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2016 and has been included in the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Resear...
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Jinitiator is a Java virtual machine (JVM) made and distributed by Oracle Corporation . It allows a web enabled Oracle Forms client application to be run inside a web browser . This JVM is called only when a web-based Oracle application is accessed. This behavior is implemented by a plugin or an activex control, depe...
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Jiuzhang ( Chinese : 九章 ) is the first photonic quantum computer to claim quantum supremacy . Previously quantum supremacy has been achieved only once, in 2019, by Google's Sycamore ; however, Google's computer was based on superconducting materials, and not photons. [ 1 ] Jiuzhang was developed by a team from Univers...
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The Jizera Dark Sky Park ( Polish : Izerski Park Ciemnego Nieba - IPCN , Czech : Jizerská oblast tmavé oblohy - JOTO ) is the first transnational dark-sky preserve . It is located in a nearly-uninhabited region of the Jizera Mountains that lies halfway between Poland and the Czech Republic . The park primarily serves t...
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Jiří Drahoš (born 20 February 1949; Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈdraɦoʃ] ) is a Czech physical chemist and politician who has been the Senator of Prague 4 since October 2018. Previously, Drahoš served as President of the Czech Academy of Sciences from 2009 to 2017, and was a candidate in the 2018 Czech presidential e...
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Jiří Linhart (13 April 1924 – 6 January 2011) [ 1 ] Nuclear fusion physicist and Czech Olympic swimmer . He competed in the men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. [ 2 ] He stayed on in London [ citation needed ] after which he took his PhD under the supervision of Denis Gabor . He was a pio...
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Jmol is computer software for molecular modelling of chemical structures in 3 dimensions . [ 2 ] It is an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D . [ 3 ] The name originated from [ J ]ava (the programming language) + [mol]ecules, and also the mol file format . JSmol is an implementation in JavaScript of ...
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JoAnn Clayton Townsend (née Cleveland, 1935–2020) was an American science policy analyst, the director of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Academy of Sciences . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Townsend was born in 1935 in Fort Smith, Arkansas , the daughter of James William Woolley Cleveland and Rachel Bl...
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Joachim "Jim" Lambek FRSC (5 December 1922 – 23 June 2014) [ 2 ] was a Canadian mathematician . He was Peter Redpath Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at McGill University , where he earned his PhD degree in 1950 with Hans Zassenhaus as advisor. Lambek was born in Leipzig , Germany , where he attended a Gymnasium...
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Joachim Maier (born 5 May 1955) is Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (Germany) [ 1 ] and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. Maier studied chemistry at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, made his Masters and PhD in Physical Chemistry there. He received his ha...
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The Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry is a prize given every other year by the Association for Women in Mathematics to an outstanding young female researcher in topology or geometry . The prize fund for the award was endowed by a donation in 2013 from Joan Birman and her husband, Joseph Birma...
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Joan Cordiner FRSE FREng is a British chemical engineer . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She is Vice President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers . [ 3 ] She worked for Syngenta . She is a professor at University of Sheffield . [ 4 ] She researches process safety. [ 5 ]
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Joan Francés Fulcònis (in classical Occitan ; Johan Frances Fulconis , as written in his original edition) was a mathematician born in Lieusola (today and in French Isola ) ca 1520 and who lived in Nice . He is the author of La Cisterna Fulcronica , a treaty of arithmetics written in Occitan language and printed in Lyo...
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Joanna Joy Bryson (born 1965) is professor at Hertie School in Berlin. She works on Artificial Intelligence , ethics and collaborative cognition. She has been a British citizen since 2007. Bryson attended Glenbard North High School and graduated in 1982. She studied Behavioural Science at the University of Chicago , g...
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Joanna Sigfred Fowler (born August 9, 1942) is a scientist emeritus at the U.S. Department of Energy 's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. She served as professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine [ 1 ] and director of Brookhaven's Radiotracer Chemistry, Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Pr...
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Joanna V. Clark is a geoscientist working for the NASA Johnson Space Center , where she is a collaborator on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) and Mars Science Lab (MSL) science teams. Her research includes conducting laboratory experiments to understand better ground and mineral samples acquired by the curiosity rover...
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In computing , a job is a unit of work or unit of execution (that performs said work). A component of a job (as a unit of work) is called a task or a step (if sequential, as in a job stream ). As a unit of execution, a job may be concretely identified with a single process , which may in turn have subprocesses ( child ...
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In computing , job control refers to the control of multiple tasks or jobs on a computer system , ensuring that they each have access to adequate resources to perform correctly, that competition for limited resources does not cause a deadlock where two or more jobs are unable to complete, resolving such situations wher...
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