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- Adaptation traits: Complex of traits related to reproduction and survival of the individual in a particular production environment. Adaptation traits contribute to individual fitness and to the evolution of animal...>more
- Adaptive capacity: The capacity of an organisation or system to moderate the risks of climate change, or to realise benefits, through changes in its characteristics or behaviour. Adaptive capacity can be an inherent...>more
- Adaptive management: A systematic process for continually improving management policies and practices by learning from the outcomes of previously employed policies and practices. In active adaptive management ,...>more
- Adaptive optics: Adaptive optics is a technology to improve the performance of optical systems by reducing the effects of rapidly changing optical distortion. It is commonly used on astronomical telescopes to...>more
- Adaptive radiation: Evolutionary diversification of species derived from a common ancestor into a variety of ecological roles. Another definition: Evolutionary diversification of a generalized ancestral form with...>more
- Adaptive Robots: Adaptive robots can make decisions based on changes in their environment picked up from sensors. http://www.bartneck.de/roboclub/ear.html (emotional adaptive robots ... interesting...>more
- Adaptive zone: A particular type of environment requiring unique adaptations then allowing adaptive radiation to occur. Another definition: A set of ecological niches that may be occupied by a group of...>more
- ADB:: Amplifier-Discriminator Board >more
- ADC: Automatic Defect Classification. Defects found by wafer inspection systems are classified by the system into several categories based on their physical and optical properties.>more
- ADC :: Analog to Digital Converter. Hardware: a device that converts an analog voltage at the input (for example, from the calorimeter) to a binary digital representation of that voltage for use by the...>more
- Additive: Additive interactions simply means that each pesticide continues to do the same job it would do when applied alone. >more
- Additive: Additive interactions simply means that each pesticide continues to do the same job it would do when applied alone. >more
- Additive effect: An additive effect is the overall consequence which is the result of two chemicals acting together and which is the simple sum of the effects of the chemicals acting independently. Related...>more
- address: (1) The location in a computer’s memory where particular information is
stored. (2) The alphanumeric value used to identify a specific I/O rack, module
group, and terminal location.>more
- address field: The sequence of eight (or any multiple of eight) bits immediately following the opening flag sequence of a frame, which identifies the secondary station that is sending (or is designated to...>more
- addressability: The total number of devices that can be connected to a network.>more
- Adduct: In biology, an adduct is a complex that forms when a chemical binds to a biological molecule , such as DNA or protein . DNA adducts are altered forms of DNA that occur as the result of...>more
- Adductors: Adductors are muscles that pull limbs toward the median of the body. >more
- Adenine: Adenine is one of the five nitrogenous bases (cytosine, guanine, adenine, thymine and uracil) that helps make up the code in DNA and RNA. These nitrogenous bases pair with one another to make the...>more
- Adenocarcinoma: Adeno- is a prefix which means "gland". Adenocarcinoma is a cancerous tumor that starts in cells with gland-like properties (i.e. they have a secretory function) that line some internal...>more
- Adenosine Triphosphate: Adenosine triphosphate is a compound containing three phosphoric acids, with one low and two high energy bonds; it occurs in all cells, where it represents energy storage. >more
- ADG: (animal science) Average daily gain. The amount of body weight gain in a day. >more
- Adjunct: Any device added to an existing telephone extension, such as a Caller ID unit or a headset. >more
- Admeasurement: The confirmed or official dimensions of a ship.>more
- Administrative Control: Procedures and methods, set up by the employer, that significantly reduce exposure to risk factors by altering the way in which work is performed; examples include employee rotation, job task...>more
- Adrenal gland(s): The suprarenal or adrenal glands, each perched over one of the kidneys, are double glands. The core, or medulla, manufactures adrenalin, noradrenalin and a small amount of dopamine. The outer...>more
- ADSL: (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) A version of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), ADSL allocates greater resources to transmit data from the internet to the user than it does from the user to the...>more
- Adsorb: To take up and hold (a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance) in a thin layer of molecules on the surface of a solid substance. Details... Adsorption is a process that occurs when a gas or...>more
- Advanced Dual Amp Drive (5.1-channel with Dual Amp Drive): The SA-XR700 AV Receiver automatically allocates its dual amplifiers to the left and right front speakers in 5.1-channel playback mode. This dispenses with the bother of having to connect and...>more
- Advanced informed agreement: Advanced informed agreement refers to the principle that international exchange of transgenic plants and microorganisms that could adversely affect plants should not proceed without the informed...>more
- Advanced Patterning Films (APF): A strippable hardmask (an amorphous carbon/DARC stack film) that is designed to replace the spin-on ARC in typical trim procedures. >more
- ADVANCES IN BOTANICAL RESEARCH, 21: John Andrews , University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. Inez Tommerup , CSIRO Centre for Mediterranean Agricultural Research, Perth, Australia J. A. Callow , University of Birmingham, U.K....>more
- ADVANCES IN BOTANICAL RESEARCH, 28: J. A. Callow , University of Birmingham, U.K. Description Advances in Botanical Research is a multi-volume publication that brings together reviews by recognized experts on subjects of...>more
- ADVANCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING AND MANAGEMENT, 1: Martin Freedman , Towson Universtiy Bikki Jaggi , Rutgers University Included in series Advances in Environmental Accounting and Management, 1 Contents List of Contributors....>more
- ADVANCES IN FUEL CELLS, 1: Tim Zhao , Department of Mechanical Engineering The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology K.-D. Kreuer , Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany Trung Nguyen ,...>more
- ADVANCES IN HETEROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY, 66: Alan Katritzky , University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Included in series Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, 66 Description...>more
- ADVANCES IN MARINE BIOLOGY, 31: John Blaxter , Dunstaffnage Marine Research Laboratory, Oban, Scotland Alan Southward , Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, U.K. Description Advances in Marine Biology contains...>more
- ADVANCES IN MARINE BIOLOGY, 34: John Blaxter , Dunstaffnage Marine Research Laboratory, Oban, Scotland Bruce Douglas , University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A. Paul Tyler , University of Southampton, U.K. Description...>more
- ADVANCES IN PARASITOLOGY, 39: John Baker , Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London, U.K. Ralph Muller , London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U.K. David Rollinson , The Natural History Museum,...>more
- ADVANCES IN PARASITOLOGY, 41: John Baker , Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London, U.K. Ralph Muller , London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U.K. David Rollinson , The Natural History Museum,...>more
- Adverse effect: In medicine , an adverse effect is a harmful and undesired effect resulting from a medication or other intervention such as chemotherapy or surgery . An adverse effect may be termed a...>more
- Adverse health effect: A change in body function or cell structure that might lead to disease or health problems. Similar term(s): adverse effect, harmful health effect, harmful effect, adverse outcomes, adverse...>more
- Aerobic: Aerobic refers to the presence of oxygen.>more
- Aerobic Requiring Oxygen: The usual application is to bacteria that require oxygen for growth ("aerobic bacteria"). Also an aquatic system characterized by the presence of dissolved oxygen. >more
- Aerodynamic: Aerodynamics is the study of how air and other gases flow, including the forces that act on an object as it moves in air. The more aerodynamic (streamlined) a moving object is, the weaker the...>more
- Aerodynamic diameter: Airborne particles have irregular shapes, and their aerodynamic behaviour is expressed in terms of the diameter of an idealised spherical particle known as aerodynamic diameter . Particles are...>more
- Aerogels: Aerogel is a lightweight, advanced material that consists of more than 96 percent air. The remaining four percent is a matrix of silica (silicon dioxide), a principal raw material for glass. This...>more
- Aeronautics: Aeronautics Dynamics and control in aeronautics is a key area of research and application within the department Control Design Engineering. We are specialists in...>more
- Aerosol: An aerosol is a collection of microscopic particles, solid or liquid, suspended in a gas. In the context of air pollution, an aersol refers to fine parti culate matter , that is larger than a...>more
- Aerosol: Aerosol technically refers to airborne liquid droplets or solid particles (also called dust or particulate matter (PM)). In casual language, aerosol refers to an aerosol spray can or the output of...>more
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