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Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other...

Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom. The first yeast originated hundreds of millions of years...

The Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter was a long-range heavy military cargo aircraft developed from the B-29 and B-50 bombers. Design work began in 1942, the...

The Montenegrin Mountain Hound (Serbo-Croatian: crnogorski planinski gonič / црногорски планински гонич) is a rare dog breed originating from the mountainous...

This article is a general timeline of psychology. c. 1550 BCE – The Ebers Papyrus mentioned depression and thought disorders. c. 600 BCE – Many cities...

Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in form of photons through emission,...

The Sapotaceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to the order Ericales. The family includes about 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in...

Delta Connection is a brand name for Delta Air Lines, under which a number of individually owned regional airlines primarily operate short- and medium-haul...

Group 11, by modern IUPAC numbering, is a group of chemical elements in the periodic table, consisting of copper (Cu), silver (Ag), gold (Au), and roentgenium...

The Grumman S-2 Tracker (S2F prior to 1962) was the first purpose-built, single airframe anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft to enter service with the...

An approximation is anything that is intentionally similar but not exactly equal to something else. The word approximation is derived from Latin approximatus...

Bendix Corporation is an American manufacturing and engineering company which, during various times in its existence, made automotive brake shoes and systems...

Degrowth' is an academic and social movement critical of the concept of growth in gross domestic product as a measure of human and economic development...

In computer security, executable-space protection marks memory regions as non-executable, such that an attempt to execute machine code in these regions...

Chemokines (from Ancient Greek χῠμείᾱ (khumeíā) 'alchemy', and κῑ́νησῐς (kī́nēsis) 'movement'), or chemotactic cytokines, are a family of small cytokines...

Feminist psychology is a form of psychology centered on social structures and gender. Feminist psychology critiques historical psychological research as...

In industry, product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its inception through the engineering...

A passenger is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination...

An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and...

In psychology, the subconscious is the part of the mind that is not currently of focal awareness. The word subconscious represents an anglicized version...