Enrichment or enriched may refer to:
Computing
* Data enrichment, appending data with context from other sources; see
data management
Data management comprises all disciplines related to handling data as a valuable resource, it is the practice of managing an organization's data so it can be analyzed for decision making.
Concept
The concept of data management emerged alongsi ...
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Enriched text
Enriched text is a formatted text format for email, defined by the IETF in RFC 1896 and associated with the text/enriched MIME type which is defined in RFC 1563.
Format
It is "intended to facilitate the wider interoperation of simple enriche ...
, a text format for email
Life sciences
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Behavioral enrichment
Behavioral enrichment is an animal husbandry principle that seeks to enhance the quality of captive animal care by identifying and providing the environmental stimuli necessary for optimal psychological and physiological well-being. Enrichment c ...
, in animal care
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Environmental enrichment
Environmental enrichment is the stimulation of the brain by its physical and social surroundings. Brains in richer, more stimulating environments have higher rates of synaptogenesis and more complex dendrite arbors, leading to increased brain a ...
, in neuroscience
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Paradox of enrichment, in ecology
* Use of an
enrichment culture Enrichment culture is the use of certain growth media to favor the growth of a particular microorganism over others, enriching a sample for the microorganism of interest. This is generally done by introducing nutrients or environmental conditions t ...
to drive growth of a particular microorganism
Other uses
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Enrichment factor Enrichment factor is used to describe bodies of mineral ore. It is defined as the minimum factor by which the weight percent of mineral in an orebody is greater than the average occurrence of that mineral in the Earth's crust. It can be used to comp ...
, used to describe bodies of mineral ore
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Job enrichment
Job enrichment is a method of motivating employees where a job is designed to have interesting and challenging tasks which can require more skill and can increase pay.
Origin
Frederick Herzberg, an American psychologist, originally developed the ...
, improving work processes and employee environments
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Nuclear enrichment
Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 (written 235U) has been increased through the process of isotope separation. Naturally occurring uranium is composed of three major isotopes: uranium-238 (238 ...
, the process of increasing the concentration of nuclear fuel
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Unjust enrichment
Restitution and unjust enrichment is the field of law relating to gains-based recovery. In contrast with damages (the law of compensation), restitution is a claim or remedy requiring a defendant to give up benefits wrongfully obtained. Liability ...
, in civil law
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Enriched category
In category theory, a branch of mathematics, an enriched category generalizes the idea of a category (mathematics), category by replacing hom-sets with objects from a general monoidal category. It is motivated by the observation that, in many pract ...
, in mathematics
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Chaptalization
Chaptalization is the process of adding sugar to unfermented grape must in order to increase the alcohol content after fermentation. The technique is named after its developer, the French chemist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal. This process is not i ...
, a process in winemaking
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Food fortification
Food fortification is the addition of micronutrients (essential trace elements and vitamins) to food products. Food enrichment specifically means adding back nutrients lost during food processing, while fortification includes adding nutrients not ...
, the process of adding nutrients to cereals or grain
* Enrichment in
education
Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...
, activities outside the formal curriculum
* Enrichment of breathing gas for scuba diving (e.g. in
Enriched Air Nitrox)
See also
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Cultural enrichment (disambiguation)
Cultural enrichment can refer to:
* The generally understood objective within Arts in education to expose children to the arts
* Culture change, a term used in public policy making that regards the role of culture on individual and community beha ...
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GO Term Enrichment, in biology
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Enrich (comics) (1929–2023), Spanish comic writer
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