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Giorgio Benedek (born 4 February 1941) is an Italian physicist, academic and researcher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Physics of Matter at University of Milano-Bicocca and Director of the International School of Solid State Physics at Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture. Benedek's original theoretical interest in the dynamics and vibrational response […]

In logic, a four-valued logic is any logic with four truth values. Several types of four-valued logic have been advanced. Nuel Belnap considered the challenge of question answering by computer in 1975. Noting human fallibility, he was concerned with the case where two contradictory facts were loaded into memory, and then a query was made. […]

A fiber-optic sensor is a sensor that uses optical fiber either as the sensing element ("intrinsic sensors"), or as a means of relaying signals from a remote sensor to the electronics that process the signals ("extrinsic sensors"). Fibers have many uses in remote sensing. Depending on the application, fiber may be used because of its […]

Boreskov Institute of Catalysis of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, BIC (Russian: INSTITUT KATALIZA IMENI G. K. BORESKOVA SIBIRSKOGO OTDELENIY ROSSIISKOI AKADEMII NAUK, IK SO RAN) is a research institute in Novosibirsk, Russia. It was founded in 1958. The Institute of Catalysis was founded in the summer of 1958 as part of the Siberian […]

Matryoshka dolls (/ˌmatriˈɒʃkə/ MAT-ree-OSH-kə; Russian: MATRESKA, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}IPA: [mɐˈtrʲɵʂkə] ⓘ), also known as stacking dolls, nesting dolls, Russian tea dolls, or Russian dolls, are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. The name matryoshka, mainly known as "little matron", is a diminutive form of […]

Environmental health ethics is a field of study that combines environmental health policies and ethical consideration towards a mutually acceptable goal. Given the myriad of environmental issues facing society today a sound ethical background can be applied in an attempt to reach a compromise between conflicting interests, like anthropocentrism, global stewardship, religious values, economic development, […]

Tijana Rajh (Serbian: TIјANA RAјK; born 1957) is an Serbian American materials scientist who is a professor and director of the Arizona State University School of Molecular Sciences. Her research considers the development of nanomaterials and materials for quantum technologies. She was awarded the Association for Women in Science Innovator Award in 2009, and named […]

Jisoon Ihm is a South Korean physicist and Distinguished Professor in Department of Physics at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Pohang, South Korea. His first paper published in 1979 spawned a new area in condensed matter physics, namely, “computational materials physics,” and the paper is nowadays regarded[by whom?] as classic in the field. […]

A carbon nanotube quantum dot (CNT QD) is a small region of a carbon nanotube in which electrons are confined. A CNT QD is formed when electrons are confined to a small region within a carbon nanotube. This is normally accomplished by application of a voltage to a gate electrode, dragging the valence band of […]

A chlorosome is a photosynthetic antenna complex found in green sulfur bacteria (GSB) and many green non-sulfur bacteria (GNsB), together known as green bacteria. They differ from other antenna complexes by their large size and lack of protein matrix supporting the photosynthetic pigments. Green sulfur bacteria are a group of organisms that generally live in […]