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- BASIC module: An intelligent I/O interface capable of performing computational tasks without affecting the PLC processor's computing time. >more
- Basidiomycetes: Basidiomycetes are saprophytes in soil, leaf litter and wood. They produce sexual basiodiospores on basidium and produce asexual chlamydospores in hypae. >more
- BAT: 1) Best Available Technology Best Available Technology is defined as the treatment or abatement technology which, given the various options available on the market and the results that each...>more
- Bat: A bat is a mammal in the order Chiroptera . Their most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings , making them the only mammals in the world naturally capable...>more
- Batch System: An automated manufacturing system that produces a specific quantity of a product. Most would be like this. There is little use in over producing so that the warehouses are full and there is too...>more
- battery backup: A battery or set of batteries that will provide power to the processor's memory in the event of a power outage >more
- baud: (1) The reciprocal of the shortest pulse width in a data communication stream. (2) The number of binary bits transmitted per second during a serial data transmission. >more
- Baud: A measurement of signaling speed of a data transmission device Baud rate does not equal bits per second.>more
- Baye’s theorem: An equation that defines the probability of one event occurring based on the fact that another event has already occurred >more
- BC :: Bunch Crossing >more
- BCC: See block check character . >more
- BCD: See binary coded decimal . >more
- BD-Video: The BD-Video disc boasts a data storage capacity of 25 GB in a single layer and 50 GB in dual layers, because it uses the shorter wavelength blue-violet laser and a high-density objective lens for...>more
- BD:: Beams Division. >more
- Beam Cooling :: The process by which a particle beam's phase space volume is reduced, while conserving Liouville's theorem (there are empty spaces between particles). Beam cooling is manifest by a...>more
- Beam Dump :: A massive object used to absorb an unwanted beam and dissipate the resulting heat. Dumps for high intensity beams are usually composed of large water cooled metal blocks. They must be shielded...>more
- Beam Intensity :: The average number of particles in a beam passing a given point during a certain time interval, given, for example, as the number of protons per pulse or protons per second. >more
- Bearings: Bearings are the parts of engines and motors that reduce friction and wear. There are different kinds of bearings including spindle or pin, ball, and roller bearings. Bearings are used on wheels,...>more
- Beef: Beef is the general term describing the meat derived from cattle. Also is an adjective to describe cattle raised primarily for meat production as opposed to milk production. (ie. beef cattle vs....>more
- Beet leafhoppers: Spread beet curly top virus in chile.>more
- Behavioral medicine: Behavioral Medicine is an interdisciplinary field of medicine concerned with the development and integration of psychosocial , behavioral and biomedical knowledge relevant to health...>more
- BELLE: This experiment, which focuses on B-mesons, is located at the KEK laboratory in Japan. One of its primary goals is to investigate why the universe appears to be made entirely from matter, and not...>more
- BELLE: This experiment, which focuses on B-mesons , is located at the KEK laboratory in Japan. One of its primary goals is to investigate why the universe appears to be made entirely from matter, and...>more
- Belt Pack: A cordless headset style comprising 2 mobile components: a cordless pack that transmits and receives radio signals (transceiver), and a lightweight headset top. The radio pack generally has a...>more
- Bench-marking: One of the process improvement tools. It consists of ranking and rating one's performance as compared with that of other organizations and systematically defining the best systems, processes,...>more
- BENGUELA: PREDICTING A LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM, 14: Edited By Vere Shannon , University of Cape Town, Oceanography Department, Cape Town, South Africa Gotthilf Hempel , Science Advisor, Senate of Bremen, Freien Hansestadt Bremen, Germany...>more
- BENGUELA: PREDICTING A LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM, 14: Edited By Vere Shannon , University of Cape Town, Oceanography Department, Cape Town, South Africa Gotthilf Hempel , Science Advisor, Senate of Bremen, Freien Hansestadt Bremen, Germany...>more
- Benign: Not cancerous . Not malignant . Benign tumours are not able to spread to tissues around them nor to other parts of the body. Usually a mild disease or condition that is not life...>more
- Benthic: Referring to an animal that lives on or near the bottom of a body of water. Also an aquatic biome consisting of the ocean bottom below the pelagic and coastal zones. Bottom habitats in the very...>more
- Benthos: Organisms living on or in the bottom of oceans, seas, rivers, lakes and other water bodies. [JVG] Depending on the size of the organisms, benthos is regarded as macrobenthos (organisms > 1000 µm),...>more
- Benzene: Is the simplest aromatic hydrocarbon. The chemical formula is C6H6. Benzene is used in the chemical industry as a solvent and as a starting compound for the synthesis of a variety of other...>more
- Benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP): BBP is a phthalate that is mainly used as an aditive for plasticising PVC or other polymers . Other examples of applications include: perfumes, hair sprays, adhesives and glues, automotive...>more
- BEPC: Beijing Electron Positron Collider>more
- BEPC: Beijing Electron Positron Collider >more
- Bequest Value: Value, defined by willingness to pay, to ensure that peoples' offspring or future generations inherit a particular environmental asset. Another definition: It is the value that people place...>more
- Berlin Declaration (under the biodiversity convention, CBD): A global initiative for the promotion of sustainable tourism, Berlin, 8 March 1997. >more
- Berlin Mandate (under the climate change convention, UNFCCC): Adopted at COP-1 (1995), the Berlin Mandate launched the talks that led to the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol (1997). >more
- Best Management Practice (BMP): A best management practice, BMP, involves the structural, nonstructural and managerial techniques recognized to be the most effective and practical means to reduce surface and ground-water...>more
- Beta:: The successors to alphas (processors) in L2. >more
- Beyond the law of Moore 2: "The number of the transistors integrated in a circuit doubles every 18/24 months", had asserted Gordon Moore in an article published on Electronics Magazine the 19 opens them of 1965. In 2005,...>more
- BFP: (dairy science) Basic formula price, determined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that serves as a basis for pricing milk in the United States. The BFP is calculated monthly based on previous...>more
- Bi-Amp: An audio system in which the signal is divided by frequency into two signals that are independently amplified and fed to separate Bi-wiring compatible speaker components, such as tweeters and...>more
- Bi-Wiring: A system that divides a speaker's input terminal into high- and mid-range sounds (for a tweeter and midrange speaker) and low-range sounds (for a woofer) and connects each cable directly to...>more
- Bias: Deviation of results or inferences from the truth, or processes leading to such systematic deviation. Any trend in the collection, analysis, interpretation, publication, or review of data that can...>more
- Biddle:: The James Biddle Company makes various types of measuring devices. Fermilab uses a high current ohm meter made by Biddle to measure across joints and connections.>more
- Bidi: A small, thin, brown, often flavoured, hand-rolled cigarette that is made in India and other Southeast Asian countries, and consists of tobacco that is wrapped in a tendu leaf. Details... A...>more
- Biennials: Biennials grow vegatatively for one growing season, then reproduce and die during their second growing season>more
- Big Dog: An agile quadruped robot, therefore agile that can even recover the balance after to have delivered a beautiful calcione. The machine, than moves like a incroocio between a goat and a horse, has...>more
- Binary: A numbering scheme that only has 2 unique values: "0" and "1". >more
- Binary: A system of numbers using 2 as a base. In contrast to the decimal system which uses 10 as a base. The binary system requires only two symbols: 0 and 1. >more
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