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Eleni Chatzi
thumb Eleni Chatzi (born 18 November 1981) is a Greek civil engineer, researcher, and a professor and Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Education Chatzi obtained her diploma and master's degree MSc in Civil Engineering with honors from the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). In 2010 she obtained her PhD Degree with distinction from the Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University. Work In 2010 Chatzi was hired as the youngest assistant professor at ETH Zurich. She was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2017 and a Full Professor in 2024. Chatzi works in the domains of Scientific and Physics-Enhanced Machine Learning, building Data-driven control system, data-driven decision-support tools for structures, infrastructures and engineered systems at-large. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The thumb is the first digit of the hand, next to the index finger. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position (where the palm is facing to the front), the thumb is the outermost digit. The Medical Latin English noun for thumb is ''pollex'' (compare ''hallux'' for big toe), and the corresponding adjective for thumb is ''pollical''. Definition Thumb and fingers The English word ''finger'' has two senses, even in the context of appendages of a single typical human hand: # Any of the five terminal members of the hand. # Any of the four terminal members of the hand, other than the thumb Linguistically, it appears that the original sense was the first of these two: (also rendered as ) was, in the inferred Proto-Indo-European language, a suffixed form of (or ), which has given rise to many Indo-European-family words (tens of them defined in English dictionaries) that involve, or stem from, concepts of fiveness. The thumb shares the following with each of the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
