Thursday, January 22, 2009

Electrical resistance

Electrical resistance is a compute of the degree to which an object opposes an electric current through it. The SI unit of electrical resistance is the ohm. Its reciprocal quantity is electrical conductance calculated in siemens. Electrical resistance shares some conceptual parallels with the mechanical notion of friction.

The resistance of an object determines the amount of current through the object for a known voltage across the object I=V/R, where R is the resistance of the object, measured in ohms, equivalent to J•s/C2, V is the voltage across the object, measured in volts, I is the current through the object, measured in amperes. In metals, the Fermi level lies in the conduction band giving rise to free transfer electrons. However, in semiconductors the position of the fermi level is within the band gap, closely half way between the conduction band minimum and valence band maximum for intrinsic semiconductors.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Education

Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation. Education mean 'to draw out', are facilitating realization of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. It is an application of pedagogy, a body of theoretical and applied research relating to teaching and learning and draws on many disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, sociology and anthropology.

The education of an individual human begins at birth and continues throughout life. For some, the struggles and triumphs of daily life provide far more instruction than doe’s formal schooling. Family members may have a profound educational effect often more profound than they realize though family teaching may function very informally.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Gear

A gear is a wheel with teeth around its circumference, the purpose of the teeth being to mesh with similar teeth on another mechanical device possibly another gear wheel so that force can be transmitted between the two strategies in a direction tangential to their surfaces. A non-toothed wheel can transmit some tangential force but will slip if the force is large; teeth put off slippage and permit the transmission of large forces.

A gear can mesh with any device having teeth friendly with the gear's teeth. Such devices include racks and other non-rotating policy; however, the most common condition is for a gear to be in mesh with another gear. In this case revolution of one of the gears necessarily causes the other gear to rotate. In this way, rotational motion can be transferred from one position to another. While gears are sometimes used simply for this reason to transmit rotation to another shaft perhaps their most significant feature is that, if the gears are of asymmetrical sizes, a mechanical advantage is also achieved, so that the rotational speed, and torque, of the second gear are dissimilar from that of the first. In this way, gears provide a means of increasing or decreasing a turning speed, or a torque.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Indicator

Dial indicators are instruments used to correctly measure a small distance. They may also be known as a Dial gauge, Dial Test Indicator, or as a clock. They are named so because the measurement results are displayed in a overstated way by means of a dial. They may be used to check the dissimilarity in tolerance during the check process of a machined part, measure the deflection of a beam or ring under laboratory conditions, as well as many other situations where a small measurement needs to be registered or indicated.

An economic indicator is a statistic concerning the economy. The lighting system of a motor vehicle consists of lighting and signaling procedure mounted or integrated to the front, sides and rear of the vehicle. The purpose of this system is to present illumination for the driver to operate the vehicle safely after dark, to increase the visibility of the vehicle, and to display information about the vehicle's presence, position, size, direction of travel, and driver's intentions concerning direction and speed of travel.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Software

Software, consisting of programs, enables a computer to perform specific tasks, as opposed to its physical components which can only do the responsibilities they are mechanically designed for. The term includes application software such as word processors which perform helpful tasks for users, system software such as operating systems, which interface with hardware to run the necessary services for user-interfaces and applications, and middleware which controls and co-ordinates distributed system.

Computer software has to be loaded into the computer's storage space (memory or RAM). Once the software is loaded, the computer is able to implement the software. Computers control by executing the computer program. This involves passing instructions from the application software, through the system software, to the hardware which finally receives the instruction as machine code. Each instruction causes the computer to carry out an operation moving data, transport out a computation, or altering the control flow of instructions.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Animals

Animals are a major group of generally motile, multicultural organisms that feed by consuming material from other living things. Their body plan becomes fixed as they develop, usually early on in their development as embryos, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on.

The word "animal" comes from the Latin word animal, of which animal is the plural, and is derived from anima, meaning vital breath or soul. In everyday colloquial usage, the word usually refers to non-human animals. The biological definition of the word refers to all members of the Kingdom Animalia. Therefore, when the word animal is used in a biological context, humans are included.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Tea Cup

A teacup is a small cup with a handle, generally a small one that may be grasped with the thumb and one or two fingers. It is normally made of porcelain. It is usually part of a set, composed of a cup and a matching bowl. These in turn may be part of a tea set in combination with a teapot, cream jug, covered sugar bowl and slop bowl en suite.

Some collectors attain numerous one-of-a-kind cups with matching saucers. Better teacups normally are of fine white lucid porcelain and often decorated with floral patterns. They may also observe a location, person, or event. Such collectors may also accumulate silver teaspoons. These usually have a decorated terracotta insert in the handle with similar themes.

The first small cups specifically made for drinking the new potion tea seen in Europe were exported from the Japanese port of Imari. Tea bowls in the Far East did not have handles, and the first European imitations, made at Meissen, were without handles, too.

Friday, February 29, 2008

Birds

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, vertebrate animals that lay eggs. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most abundant tetrapod vertebrates. They populate ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Birds range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) Bee Hummingbird to the 2.7 m (9 ft) Ostrich. The fossil record indicates that birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period, around 150–200 Ma (million years ago), and the earliest known bird is the Late Jurassic Archaeopteryx, c 155–150 Ma.

Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a trivial but strong skeleton. All birds have forelimbs modified as wings and most can fly, with some exceptions including ratites, penguins, and a number of diverse endemic island species. Birds also have unique digestive and respiratory systems that are highly adapted for flight. Some birds, especially corvids and parrots, are among the most intellectual animal species; a number of bird species have been observed manufacturing and using tools, and many social species exhibit cultural program of knowledge across generations.

Many species undertake long distance annual migrations, and many more perform shorter asymmetrical movements. Birds are social; they communicate using visual signals and through calls and songs, and participate in social behaviours including cooperative breeding and hunting, flocking, and mobbing of predators. The vast majority of bird species are socially monogamous, usually for one breeding season at a time, sometimes for years, but rarely for life. Other species have breeding systems that are polygynous ("many females") or, rarely, polyandrous ("many males"). Eggs are usually laid in a nest and incubated by the parents. Most birds have an extended period of parental care after hatching.

Many species are of economic importance, mostly as sources of food acquired through hunting or farming. Some species, particularly songbirds and parrots, are popular as pets. Other uses include the harvesting of guano (droppings) for use as a fertiliser. Birds figure prominently in all aspects of human culture from religion to poetry to popular music. About 120–130 species have become destroyed as a result of human activity since the 17th century, and hundreds more before then. Currently about 1,200 species of birds are threatened with extinction by human activities, though efforts are underway to protect them.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek ποίησις", poiesis, a "making" or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used for its artistic and reminiscent qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its supposed meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns or lyrics.

Poetry, and discussions of it, have a long history. Early attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in speechifying, drama, song and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as recurrence and rhyme, and emphasised the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from style. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more loosely defined as a fundamental artistic act using language.

Poetry often uses particular forms and conventions to develop the literal meaning of the words, or to evoke emotional or sensual responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. Poetry's use of indistinctness, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic delivery often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly, metaphor and simile create a resonance between otherwise disparate images—a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm.

Some forms of poetry are specific to particular cultures and genres, responding to the characteristics of the language in which the poet writes. While readers adapted to identifying poetry with Dante, Goethe, Mickiewicz and Rumi may think of it as being written in rhyming lines and regular meter, there are society, such as those of Du Fu and Beowulf, that use other approaches to achieve rhythm and euphony. In today's globalized world, poets often borrow styles, techniques and forms from diverse cultures and languages

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Inductor

An inductor is a passive electrical device working in electrical circuits for its property of inductance. Inductance is an consequence which results from the magnetic field that forms around a current carrying conductor. Electrical current through the conductor creates a magnetic flux relative to the current. A change in this current creates a change in magnetic flux that, in turn, generates an electromotive force that acts to oppose this change in current. Inductance is a calculate of the generated emf for a unit modify in current. An inductor with an inductance of 1 henry produces an emf of 1 V when the current through the inductor changes at the rate of 1 ampere per second. The number of turns, the area of each loop/turn, and what it is wrapped around influence the inductance.

An inductor opposes changes in the current. An ideal inductor would offer no resistance to a constant direct current, however, only superconducting inductors have truly zero electrical resistance. Inductors are used expansively in analog circuits and signal processing.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Coconut

The coconut palm is grown throughout the tropical world, for decoration as well as for its many cooking and non-culinary uses, virtually every part of the coconut palm has some human use.The flowers of the coconut palm are polygamomonoecious, with both male and female flowers in the similar inflorescence. Flowering occurs continuously, with female plants producing seeds. Coconut palms are believed to be largely cross-pollinated, although some dwarf varieties are self-pollinating. Coconut water can be used as an intravenous fluid.

Nearly all parts of the coconut palm are useful, and the palms have a comparatively high yield, it therefore has important economic value. The name for the coconut palm in Sanskrit is kalpa vriksha, which translates as the tree which provides all the requirements of life. In Malay, the coconut is known as pokok seribu guna, the tree of a thousand uses. In the Philippines, the coconut is generally given the title Tree of Life. The white, fleshy part of the seed is safe to eat and used fresh or dried in cooking.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

River

A river is a natural waterway that transits water through a setting from higher to lower elevations. A river may have its basis in a spring, lake, from damp, boggy landscapes where the soil is waterlogged, from glacial melt, or from surface runoff of precipitation. Almost each and every one river is joined by other rivers and streams termed tributaries the highest of which are known as headwaters. Water may also begin from groundwater sources. Throughout the course of the river, the total volume transported downstream will often be a combination of the free water flow together with a important contribution flowing through sub-surface rocks and gravels that underlie the river and its floodplain. For many rivers in large valleys, this unseen component of flow may greatly go above the visible flow.

From their source, all rivers flow downhill, typically terminating in the sea or in a lake, through a confluence. In arid areas rivers sometimes end by losing water to desertion. River water may also infiltrate into the soil or pervious rock, where it becomes groundwater. Excessive abstraction of water for use in commerce, irrigation, etc., can also cause a river to dry before success its natural terminus.

Friday, December 14, 2007

Human interrelationship

Although humans currently comprise only about one-half of one percent of the total living biomass on Earth, the human effect on nature is disproportionately large. Because of the extent of human influence, the boundaries between what we regard as nature and "made environments" is not clear cut except at the extremes. Even at the extremes, the amount of natural environment that is free of discernible human influence is presently diminishing at an increasingly rapid pace, or, according to some, has already disappeared.

The development of technology by the human race has allowed the greater exploitation of natural resources and has helped to alleviate some of the risk from natural hazards. In spite of this progress, however, the fate of human civilization remains closely linked to changes in the environment. There exists a highly complex feedback-loop between the use of advanced technology and changes to the environment that are only slowly becoming understood. Manmade threats to the Earth's natural environment include pollution, deforestation, and disasters such as oil spills. Humans have contributed to the extinction of many plants and animals.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Market

A market is a social arrangement that allows buyers and sellers to discover in sequence and carry out a voluntary replace of goods or services. It is one of the two key institutions that organize trade, along with the right to own goods. In everyday usage, the word market may refer to the place where goods are traded, sometimes known as a marketplace, or to a street market.

In economics a financial market is a device that allows people to easily buy and sell financial securities, commodities, and other fungible substance of value at low transaction costs and at prices that reflect capable markets. A stock market is a market for the trading of company stock, and derivatives of same; both of these are securities scheduled on a stock replace as well as those only traded privately.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Ethnic diversity

The Affirmative action can be defined as action taken to compensate for past unfairness in the education of minorities. The present system of affirmative action allows universities to admit applicants from certain ethnic and minority groups with lower credentials. The main aim of affirmative action is to produce a diverse campus population that is comparable to today's society. The use of race as a main factor by which someone is admitted to college in the long run will compromise the quality of the university. By Implicating affirmative action to solve the problem of diversity on today's campuses has lead to the creation of problems.

The discrimination which is against Caucasian and Asian American students a long with the toleration of lower quality work produced by African American students and other minority students is an example of the problems caused by the Affirmative Action. Though the affirmative action intends to do good, which lowers the standards by which certain racial groups are admitted to college is not the way to solve the problem of diversity in America's universities. The present condition of America's public schools is directly responsible for the poor academic achievement of minority children.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Amusement park

Amusement park is the general word for a collection of rides and other leisure attractions assembled for the purpose of enjoyable a reasonably large group of people. An amusement park is more involved than a simple city park or playground, as an amusement park is intended to cater to adults, teenagers, and small children. An amusement park may be stable or temporary, generally periodic, such as a few days or weeks per year. The short-term amusement park with mobile rides etc. is called a funfair or carnival.

Theme parks form a more closely defined type of an amusement park. They are permanent conveniences that use architecture, signage, landscaping to help express the feeling that people are in a different place or time. Often a theme park will have a variety of 'lands' of the park committed to telling a particular story. Otherwise, an amusement park often has rides with tiny in terms of theming design elements. The main difference among a theme park and an amusement park is to in a theme park all the rides go all with the theme of the park, for example Disney World.

Friday, October 19, 2007

Computer file

A computer file is a block of subjective information, or resource for storing information, that is available to a computer program and is usually based on some kind of durable storage. A file is durable in the intelligence that it remains available for programs to use after the current program has finished. Computer files can be considered as the up to date counterpart of paper documents which traditionally were kept in offices and libraries files.
In most computer files are stored on various type of data storage device, there is a hard disk, from which most operating systems run and on which most store their files. Hard discs are the most ever-present form of non-volatile storage at the start of the 21st century. Where files have only temporary information, they may be stored in RAM. The way a computer organizes, names stores and manipulates files is worldwide referred to as its file system. Nearly all computers have at least one file system.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

FLAG

A FLAG is a piece of woven cloth, often flown from a pole or mast, generally used symbolically for signalling or recognition. The term FLAG is also used to refer to the graphic intend employed by a flag, or to its picture in another medium.
The first flags were used to assist military organization on battlefields and flags have evolved into a general tool for rudimentary signalling and identification, mainly in environments where communication is similarly challenging such as the maritime environment where semaphore is used. National flags are potent patriotic symbols with varied wide-ranging interpretation, often including strong military associations due to their unique and ongoing military uses. Flags are used in messaging, advertising, or for other decorative purpose, though at this less formal end the difference between a flag and a simple cloth banner is blurred. The study of flags is known as vexillology, from the Latin ''vexillum'' meaning flag or poster.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Intranet

An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet protocols, network connectivity to securely divide part of an organization's information or operations with its employees. Sometimes the term refers only to the most perceptible service, the internal website. The same concepts and technologies of the Internet such as clients and servers running on the Internet protocol suite are used to make an intranet. HTTP and other Internet protocols are commonly used as well, such as FTP. There is often a challenge to use Internet technologies to provide new interfaces with corporate legacy data and information systems.
Intranets can help users to locate and view information faster and use applications related to their roles and responsibilities. With the help of a web browser interface such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, users can contact data held in any database the organization wants to make available, anytime and - subject to security provisions - from anywhere within the company workstations, increasing employees' capability to perform their jobs faster, more accurately, and with confidence that they have the right information. It also helps to improve the services provided to the users.
With intranets, organizations can make more information accessible to employees on a "pull" source rather than being deluged indiscriminately by emails.
Intranets can serve as influential tools for communication within an organization, vertically and horizontally. From a communications standpoint, intranets are useful to communicate strategic initiatives that have a worldwide reach throughout the organization. The type of information that can easily be conveyed is the reason of the initiative and what the initiative is aiming to achieve, who is driving the initiative, results achieved to date, and who to speak to for more information.

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

laptop

A laptop computer, or simply laptop, is a small mobile computer, which usually weighs 2-18 pounds (1-6 kilograms), depending on mass, materials, and other factors. Laptops usually run on a single main battery or from an external AC/DC adapter which can blame the battery while also supplying power to the processor itself. Many computers also have a 3 volt cell to run the clock and other processes in the occurrence of a power failure.
As personal computers, laptops are skilled of the same tasks as a desktop computer, although they are classically less powerful for the similar price. They contain components that are similar to their desktop counterparts and perform the same functions, but are miniaturized and optimized for mobile use and capable power consumption. Laptops usually have liquid crystal displays and most of them use unusual memory modules for their chance access memory (RAM), for instance, SO-DIMM in lieu of the superior DIMMs. In addition to a built-in keyboard, they may utilize a touchpad or a pointing stick for input, though an outside keyboard or mouse can frequently be attached.