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iA® Partners with Euclid® Medical Products to Expand Offering Enabling Pharmacy Providers to Enhance Patient Choice Through Centralized Fulfillment, Including Adherence Packaging.

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

This partnership will result in the integration of Euclid’s Axial® Adherence Packaging Technology into iA’s NEXiA Enterprise Software Suite, expanding the capabilities of iA’s centralized fulfillment solutions.

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  • This partnership will result in the integration of Euclid’s Axial® Adherence Packaging Technology into iA’s NEXiA Enterprise Software Suite, expanding the capabilities of iA’s centralized fulfillment solutions.
  • This partnership shows our dedication to further elevate our capacity to provide solutions for our valued pharmacy partners," said Marvin Richardson, CEO, iA.
  • Together with Euclid, iA empowers pharmacy providers to reap the benefits achieved through centralized fulfillment with the patient and pharmacy operation top of mind."
  • Adherence packaging built into centralized fulfillment solutions can offer significant value-add by enhancing medication safety, adherence, efficiency, and workflow.

Redwire Awarded Contract to Provide Onboard Computer for ESA’s Comet Interceptor Mission to Study Pristine Comet

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Monday, October 23, 2023

Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced today that it has been awarded a contract with OHB Italia S.p.A. (OHB Italy) to provide the onboard computer for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Comet Interceptor mission – Implementation Phase (Phases C/D/E1).

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  • Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced today that it has been awarded a contract with OHB Italia S.p.A. (OHB Italy) to provide the onboard computer for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Comet Interceptor mission – Implementation Phase (Phases C/D/E1).
  • ESA’s Comet Interceptor will be the first spacecraft to visit a long-period, dynamically new comet or interstellar object.
  • Redwire’s wholly owned Belgian subsidiary, Redwire Space NV, will develop the onboard computer for the Comet Interceptor mission, which is the “brain” of the spacecraft and is designed to monitor and control other components, including transmitting critical data to operators on the ground.
  • The onboard computer is part of Redwire’s third generation Advanced Data and Power Management System.

Gravitational distortion of time helps tell modified gravity apart from a dark force

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Einstein’s equations described how stars, galaxies and all other matter curve or warp space and time.

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  • Einstein’s equations described how stars, galaxies and all other matter curve or warp space and time.
  • The galaxies and the light rays then travel in this distorted space-time according to the equation provided by the 18th-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler.
  • But can we differentiate a universe where Einstein’s equations were violated from a universe where Euler’s equation were modified?

A universe filled with unknowns

    • The reason to put those to the test comes from the fact that our universe is filled with unknowns.
    • In the 1930s, the Swiss-American astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky observed that there was five times more matter in the universe than we can detect with our telescopes.
    • Then, in 1998, two groups of astrophysicists observed that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, contrary to the deceleration expected because of the gravitational attraction between galaxies.

Vast distances of the universe

    • Checking if Einstein’s gravity works over the vast distances of the universe has become an active field of research.
    • Theoreticians propose new ideas for how gravity could work differently, while astronomers use increasingly advanced facilities to provide the data needed to test them.
    • The latter would be different if, for example, the dark matter in the galaxies were subject to a new force.

Gravitational slips

    • To our surprise, while both of us came into this thinking that the answer would be obvious, our initial answers were opposite to each other.
    • Our conclusion was that, despite the common expectation, measuring the gravitational slip would not allow one to distinguish a modification of Einstein’s laws from a modification of Euler’s equation.
    • So, if a galaxy were to fall into a gravitational potential in a way that was not consistent with our expectations, we would be unable to tell if it’s because the dark matter is doing something, or because gravity was modified.

Light and gravity

    • These differences are extremely tiny but are, in fact, very important in the design of satellite navigation systems.
    • When the light from a galaxy escapes the gravitational potential it is falling into, its colour shifts closer to red.
    • In time, new technologies will be able to detect the tiny effects of gravitational redshift, and consequently distinguish a modification of Euler’s equation for dark matter from a modification of gravity.

BullFrog AI Technology Licensed from Johns Hopkins University APL Named Finalist in R&D 100 Awards

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Wednesday, August 23, 2023

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BullFrog AI Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BFRG; BFRGW) ("BullFrog AI" or the "Company"), a precision medicine company using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enable the successful development of pharmaceuticals and biologics, today announced that its machine learning/artificial intelligence technology, exclusively licensed from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL), has been selected as a finalist in the IT/Electrical category for the R&D 100 Awards.

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  • GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BullFrog AI Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BFRG; BFRGW) ("BullFrog AI" or the "Company"), a precision medicine company using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enable the successful development of pharmaceuticals and biologics, today announced that its machine learning/artificial intelligence technology, exclusively licensed from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL), has been selected as a finalist in the IT/Electrical category for the R&D 100 Awards.
  • The designation recognizes APL’s Prometheus/Euclid/Seagull algorithm suite as a leading-edge library integrating probabilistic modeling, graph analysis, and time series analysis to solve complex data challenges.
  • Prometheus/Euclid/Seagull algorithm suite’s key strengths include scalability for shallow and wide to large, high-dimensional datasets, handling missing information, and versatility across domains.
  • "We are honored that the proprietary machine learning technology for which we hold exclusive global licensing rights from APL has been named a finalist for the R&D 100 Awards,” stated Vin Singh, CEO of BullFrog AI.

A brief illustrated guide to 'scissors congruence' − an ancient geometric idea that’s still fueling cutting-edge mathematical research

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Remember “base x height” for rectangles and “½ base x height” for triangles?

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  • Remember “base x height” for rectangles and “½ base x height” for triangles?
  • But if you were in math class in ancient Greece, you might have learned something very different.
  • Ancient Greek mathematicians, such as Euclid, thought of area as something geometric, not algebraic.

Euclid’s notion of area

    • So what does it mean to think of area as something geometric the way the ancient Greeks did?
    • Using your algebraic formulas for area, you could check that the area of your new shape is equal to the original area of the construction paper.
    • In other words, for polygons, Euclid’s notion of area is exactly the same as the modern one.
    • Since area is preserved if you cut the pentagon up into smaller triangles, you can instead find the area of these triangles (using “½ base x height”) and add them up to get the answer.

Hilbert’s third problem

    • The third problem on the list, and the first to be resolved, is about scissors congruence.
    • Dehn’s solution to the problem was very different from the two-dimensional case.
    • So, if Dehn could find two polyhedra with the same volume but different values of this invariant, that would prove the answer to Hilbert’s third problem is no – scissors congruence doesn’t precisely capture 3D volume.
    • In 1965, Jean-Pierre Sydler confirmed that the answer is yes, closing this chapter on scissors congruence.

Strange shapes and stranger connections

    • Mathematics is full of shapes living in higher dimensions – like 4D, 100D, 3,485D or any dimension you can imagine – which are impossible to visualize.
    • An active new research area called generalized scissors congruence seeks to uncover whether Hilbert’s question about scissors congruence can also be stated – and maybe even solved – for these strange shapes.
    • A recent research program pioneered by mathematicians Jonathan Campbell and Inna Zakharevich proposes a unifying framework for generalized scissors congruence.
    • With a little bit of adjustment, mathematicians can harness the machinery of K-theory and apply it to generalized scissors congruence problems.

Redwire Providing Critical Hardware for European Space Telescope Set to Launch and Explore Dark Matter Across the Galaxies

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Friday, June 30, 2023

Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced today that it is providing critical hardware set to launch onboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope mission, which will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the universe ever produced.

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  • Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced today that it is providing critical hardware set to launch onboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope mission, which will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the universe ever produced.
  • Redwire’s wholly owned Belgian subsidiary, Redwire Space NV, designed and manufactured the space telescope’s baffle, through a contract with Airbus, who is responsible for the telescope on behalf of Thales Alenia Space, prime contractor for ESA.
  • This critical, mission-enabling hardware is a cylindrical structure that sits atop the telescope and prevents stray light from entering, ensuring image quality, and protects the spacecraft’s primary scientific instruments.
  • The 1.4 billion euro Euclid mission represents contributions from over 13 ESA member states and NASA.

Euclid Fiduciary Expands Management Liability Insurance Division with New Chief Underwriting Officer, Keith M. Lavigne

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

SUMMIT, N.J. , June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Euclid Fiduciary, a division of Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG), announced the hiring of Keith M. Lavigne as Chief Underwriting Officer, Management Liability.

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  • SUMMIT, N.J. , June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Euclid Fiduciary, a division of Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG), announced the hiring of Keith M. Lavigne as Chief Underwriting Officer, Management Liability.
  • He will lead Euclid Fiduciary's business plan to expand its management liability insurance and related executive liability insurance products and deliver profitable long-term underwriting results for its program carrier.
  • Keith's deep management liability insurance expertise and experience in insurance comes from over 25 years in underwriting, finance, and accounting.
  • Euclid Fiduciary is a premier provider of fiduciary liability insurance for America's employee benefit plans and plan sponsors.

Cosmological models are built on a simple, century-old idea -- but new observations demand a radical rethink

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

It suggests that when averaged on large scales, the Cosmos is homogeneous and matter is distributed evenly throughout.

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  • It suggests that when averaged on large scales, the Cosmos is homogeneous and matter is distributed evenly throughout.
  • This allows a mathematical description of space-time that simplifies the application of Einstein’s general theory of relativity to the Universe as a whole.

Einstein’s legacy

    • As a 50-year-old textbook reminds us:
      Matter tells space how to curve, and space tells matter how to move.
    • Matter tells space how to curve, and space tells matter how to move.
    • Read more:
      Dark matter: our review suggests it's time to ditch it in favour of a new theory of gravity

Ideas about matter have evolved, but not geometry

    • We can trace the astrophysics of “stuff” from tiny seed ripples in the primordial fireball all the way to complex structures today.
    • They look back all the way to when the first atoms formed, and the Universe first became transparent.
    • We receive that same light today, but cooled to minus 270℃ and diluted by the expansion of the Universe.

A ‘lumpy’ Universe

    • The expansion of the Universe has been halted entirely within the largest matter concentrations known as galaxy clusters.
    • But the idea that the Universe is spatially homogeneous endures.
    • Billions have been spent trying to directly detect dark matter, but decades of such efforts have yielded no definitive detection of what makes up 80% of all matter and 20% of all the energy in the Universe today.

An anomalous sky

    • Superimposed on it are fluctuations, one of which is abnormally large and has the shape of a dipole: a yin-yang diagram covering the whole sky.
    • We can interpret this as an effect due to relative motion, provided we define the cosmic microwave background radiation as the rest frame of the Universe.
    • These anomalies have long been explained as a result of unaccounted physical processes in modelling microwave emissions from the Milky Way.

Matter within the sky

    • They found that matter, too, is unevenly distributed.
    • Conventionally, we assume that an all-sky average of the Universe’s present expansion rate gives one well defined value: the Hubble constant.
    • Using cosmic microwave background data from individual opposing hemispheres, a standard expansion history implies different Hubble “constants” on each side of the sky today.
    • If matter is much more varied and interesting than expected, then maybe the geometry is too.

Euclid space mission is set for launch – here's how it will test alternative theories of gravity

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

The European Space Agency’s (Esa) Euclid mission will launch into space on a Falcon9 rocket from SpaceX on July 1, or soon after.

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  • The European Space Agency’s (Esa) Euclid mission will launch into space on a Falcon9 rocket from SpaceX on July 1, or soon after.
  • But it will also be able to test some strange, alternative models of gravity – potentially challenging Albert Einstein’s great theory of general relativity.
  • As this matter wasn’t shining in the same way as the visible galaxies, it was dubbed dark matter.
  • On these scales, there are some alternative models of gravity that can explain galaxy rotation curves without assuming there’s any dark matter.
  • Therefore, astronomical observations of galaxy clusters remain our best option for testing the various theories that can explain dark matter.

Dark energy and gravity

    • Dark matter is potentially easy to understand compared to dark energy, which was proposed to explain the discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating – at odds with the prediction from Einstein’s theory of gravity.
    • This strange substance is vexing to physicists and cosmologists, with the simplest idea being that dark energy is just the energy of empty space (“vacuum energy”).
    • As with dark matter, an alternative explanation for dark energy is that it isn’t really a substance or form of energy at all, but again a sign that gravity is behaving differently on the largest scales.
    • The challenge for all these alternative gravity models is to work together, for both dark matter and dark energy.
    • This is the first time we’ve had a satellite dedicated to mapping dark matter and dark energy.

Teledyne’s Visible and Infrared Detectors are the “Eyes” of ESA’s Euclid Dark Universe Space Mission

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Monday, June 26, 2023

On Saturday, July 1, the European Space Agency (ESA) is scheduled to launch the Euclid Dark Universe space astrophysics mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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  • On Saturday, July 1, the European Space Agency (ESA) is scheduled to launch the Euclid Dark Universe space astrophysics mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • Euclid will explore the evolution of the dark Universe, constructing a three-dimensional map of the Universe by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years.
  • While dark energy accelerates the expansion of the Universe and dark matter governs the growth of cosmic structures, scientists do not know what dark energy and dark matter are.
  • “Teledyne is very proud to provide the high performance detectors to the Euclid dark universe mission,” said Dr. James Beletic, President of Teledyne Imaging Sensors.