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- Brain (22060 bytes)
5: ... The [[human brain]] is particularly complex and enlarged.
16: ...rol, memory, and thinking abilities. Currently, only the symptoms of these diseases can be treated, b...
41: ...tomy and [[protein]] expression patterns but can only be done after the human or animal is dead.
48: ... A possible origin of this myth is the fact that only about 10% of the [[neurons]] in the brain are fi...
52: ...sis can lead to perfect recall of details.'' Not only is this not entirely true, an incompetent or dec... - Eye (21834 bytes)
13: ...such an eye varies, however: some trilobites had only one, and some had thousands of lenses in one eye...
15: ...more. This enables snails to keep out of direct sunlight.
65: ...which allow humans and other animals to see by moonlight, or with very little available light (as in a...
79: ...plate striking the head will not damage the eye, unless it breaks the skull.
108: ... process incoming visual information and supply [[feedback]]. Following an object moving at constant speed i... - Kidney (12846 bytes)
37: ...The next portion of the tubule is the [[loop of Henle]], which leads to the [[distal convoluted tubule...
39: ...o described it in the early 1860s. The loop of Henle maintains an [[osmotic]] gradient set up as a [[...
47: The site where the ascending loop of Henle touches the afferent arteriole, is called the [[...
59: ...h notifies the [[pituitary gland]] via [[negative feedback]]. The [[pituitary gland]] secretes antidiuretic...
94: *[[Hydronephrosis]] is the enlargement of one or both of the kidneys caused by o... - Process (6114 bytes)
4: ...]. A singular process would be one which occurs only once. Few processes in nature can be considered...
22: ...ultaneous execution, though in fact, in general, only one process can be executing per [[Central proce...
64: ...ustrial processes utilize basic processes such as feedback. - Earth science (5396 bytes)
2: ...special case in [[planetary science]], being the only known [[life]]-bearing planet. There are both [[...
18: ...[[positive feedback|positive]]'' and ''[[negative feedback]]'' between constituent systems: - Cloud (9947 bytes)
5: ...r even black if they are so thick or dense that sunlight cannot pass through.
93: ...ny particles of water are relatively dense, and sunlight cannot penetrate far into the cloud before it...
97: ...s. A greenish tinge to a cloud is produced when sunlight is scattered by ice. A cumulonimbus cloud whi...
101: ...y reflecting the long (and unscattered) rays of sunlight which are predominant at those hours. The eff...
110: * [[Cloud feedback]] - Cerebellum (7954 bytes)
6: ...is involved in guiding movements based on sensory feedback (particularly vision). Movement commands themselv...
8: ...nputs from much of the [[cerebral cortex]] but mainly from [[visual cortex]] and somatosensory cortex....
23: ...the granule cells of the cerebellar cortex), and only one climbing fiber (axon from inferior olivary n...
30: ...hey show `intention tremor' - a tremor occurring only during movement rather than at rest (as seen in ...
40: ...ached maturity, the EGL ceases to exist, leaving only granule cells in the IGL. The cerebellar white m... - Assessment (8640 bytes)
8: ...or [[peer group|peer]]) or the learner, providing feedback on a student's work, and would not necessarily be...
14: ...ecoming more popular due to the increased use of online assessment ([[e-assessment]]) since this form ...
20: ...nced assessment does not vary from year to year (unless the criteria change). - Instructional design (6896 bytes)
6: ...le for every learner, given enough repetition and feedback.
10: ...o through as they grow. Very young children are only able to process concrete, operational informatio...
45: ...s is the idea of receiving continual or formative feedback while instructional materials are being created. ...
63: * [[online education]] - Helicopter (20080 bytes)
5: ...e off]] and [[landing|land]] vertically. Subject only to refuelling facilities and load/altitude limit...
19: ...cept that instead of moving the entire aircraft, only the wings themselves are moved. The helicopter's...
29: ...power available for forward flight. This is commonly known as slip-streaming and can occur while in a...
42: ... piston helicopters, use [[servomechanism|servo]]-feedback loop in their engine controls to maintain rotor R...
70: ...rge loads. The Belvedere had a production run of only 26 and went into [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] service... - Information (13474 bytes)
6: ...inputs. Other inputs (information) are important only because they are associated with causal inputs a...
16: ...theory]] and endows the word ''information'' not only with a technical meaning but also a measure. If ...
28: ...cs|economy]], however inaccurately. What are commonly referred to as [[data]] in [[computing]], [[stat...
40: ...onscious mind, and patterns circulating (due to [[feedback]]) in the system can be called information. In ot... - Tobacco smoking (36030 bytes)
10: ...rm to refuse, except in the cases where there is only one cigarette left, or if the pack of cigarettes...
48: ...y found that tobacco grown in [[India]] averaged only 0.09 pCi per gram of polonium 210, whereas tobac...
61: ...r's disease", it stated, noting that smokers are only half as likely as non-smokers to survive to the ...
66: ...ond only to injection, which allows for the rapid feedback which supports the smokers' ability to [[Titratio...
77: ...00 of the study participants are still alive and only 134 of them still smoke. - Ice age (15810 bytes)
4: ...ion we are still in an ice age (because the [[Greenland]] and [[Antarctic]] ice sheets still exist). M...
22: ...utions through time. Due to the positions of Greenland, Antarctica, and the northern portions of Euro...
39: ...ate during cooler times and thus trigger positive feedback processes like [[albedo]] changes. The Earth's o...
41: ...pears to be too small to trigger glaciations, but feedback mechanisms like CO<sub>2</sub> may explain this m...
48: ...rth has entered a mode of climate behavior where only the 2nd or 3rd cycle triggers an ice age. This ... - Sense (11343 bytes)
15: ...quencies than can be heard are detected this way only.
19: ...tects the [[amino acid]] glutamate, a flavor commonly found in meat, and in artificial flavourings suc...
21: ...r '''olfaction''' is the other "chemical" sense. Unlike taste, there are hundreds of olfactory recepto...
31: ...ature. How warm or cold something feels does not only depend on [[temperature]], but also on [[specifi...
47: The only order of mammals which is known to demonstrate e... - Computer mouse (29399 bytes)
11: ...by ''Opocentsky'', 10/76, [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3987685.html 3987685].]]
13: ...gelbart's oN-Line System ([[NLS (computer system)|NLS]]), which was both a hardware and software syste...
24: ...Kirsch]] of [[Mouse Systems Corporation]], could only be used on a special metallic surface ([[mouse p...
39: ...reless settings. A wireless mechanical mouse may only draw 5mA or less of [[electrical current]], wher...
51: ...used as a convenience to map the action to a commonly used action, or a macro. In the [[X Window Syste... - Modem (21628 bytes)
14: ...a, the 103 had a transmission rate of 300 bit/s. Only a short time later they released the [[Bell 212]...
21: ...o introduced for special-purpose situations, commonly using a high-speed channel for sending, and a lo...
23: ...ot so obvious for users who were uploading and downloading files in the same session, and these soluti...
35: ...k to the earphone, in order to give the user some feedback that their voice is indeed being sent. However th...
39: ...sing use of the internet, which is largely "read only", the small sacrifice for higher speeds made sen... - Climate change (15859 bytes)
23: ...In the last 600 million years of Earth's history only the Carboniferous Period and our present age, th...
30: === Feedback mechanisms ===
32: ...temperature. The [[IPCC]] TAR chapter 7 discusses feedbacks in more detail [http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc...
34: ....grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/294.htm]. Positive feedback mechanisms, due to their dramatic potential, have...
36: ...es basic physics, as in the temperature-radiation feedback mentioned earlier. - Global warming (53726 bytes)
3: ...held by many journalists and politicians, but by only a minority of established scientists.
42: ...hesis that recent observed warming is a result mainly of human activity."[http://www.nature.com/news/2...
65: ...climate is in cooling the surface by reflecting sunlight back into space. Yet, seemingly opposite phen...
67: ...be at odds with the skeptics' theory that climate feedbacks will cancel out the warming.
69: ...e. Skeptics of global warming point to potential feedbacks that current models poorly understand, such as c... - Ecology (24417 bytes)
45: ...ive to the volume of the Earth, the biosphere is only the very thin surface layer which extends from 1...
78: * as ecosystems of inland waters, such as [[lentic ecosystem]]s (lakes, ...
107: ...). This self-regulation, supported by negative [[feedback]] controls, ensures the perenniality of the ecosy...
117: ...find [[photosynthesis|photosynthetic]] [[algae]] only in the ''photic'' part of the ocean (where light... - Octopus (12952 bytes)
15: ...l reef|coral reefs]]. The term may also refer to only those creatures in the [[genus]] ''[[Octopus (ge...
17: ...imilar in shape to a [[parrot]]'s beak, is their only hard part. This enables them to squeeze through ...
23: ...ver, reproduction is a cause of death: males can only live for a few months after mating, and females ...
31: An octopus has a highly complex nervous system, only part of which is localized in its [[brain]]. Tw...
41: ...; in [[vertebrate]]s, the brain needs to process only the position of the joints; in contrast the posi...
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