theoretical
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The 26-member team includes eight Ph.D.s, including Kosowski, a theoretical computer scientist, mathematician and quantum physicist who received his doctorate at age 20.
There are different kinds of art criticism — theoretical, and academic, two that turn up in different kinds of scholarly journals; trade, sponsored in commercially supported magazines; and journalistic, embedded in press reporting on everyday life.
From Los Angeles Times
Earlier theoretical work on somewhat smaller intermediate-mass black holes had suggested that a gas-enshrouded configuration like this could enable very rapid black hole growth in the early universe.
From Science Daily
The estimated frequency of these annihilation events based on the observed gamma ray intensity also fits within expected theoretical ranges.
From Science Daily
For low and intermediate intensities, the theoretical model captures only part of the experimental behavior.
From Science Daily
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