The Encyclopedia of Life
Life (EOL) is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world.[2] It aims to build one "infinitely expandable" page for each species, including video, sound, images, graphics, as well as text.[3] In addition, the Encyclopedia incorporates content from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which digitizes millions of pages of printed literature from the world's major natural history libraries. The project was initially backed by a US$50 million funding commitment, led by the MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation, who provided US$20 million and US$5 million, respectively
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Latin (Malay alphabet) Arabic script
Arabic script (Jawi alphabet)[3] Thai alphabet
Thai alphabet (in Thailand) Malay Braille Historically Pallava alphabet, Kawi alphabet, Rencong alphabetSigned formsManually Coded Malay Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indon
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FishBase
FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish).[1] It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web.[2] Over time it has "evolved into a dynamic and versatile ecological tool" that is widely cited in scholarly publications.[3][4] FishBase
FishBase provides comprehensive species data, including information on taxonomy, geographical distribution, biometrics and morphology, behaviour and habitats, ecology and population dynamics as well as reproductive, metabolic and genetic data
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Alexa Internet, Inc. is an American company based in California
California that provides commercial web traffic data and analytics. It is a subsidiary of Amazon. Founded as an independent company in 1996, Alexa was acquired by the company Amazon in 1999. Its toolbar collects data on Internet
Internet browsing behavior and transmits them to the Alexa website, where they are stored and analyzed. This is the basis for the company's web traffic reporting
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No official regulation ( German orthography
German orthography regulated by the Council for German Orthography[4]). Language
Language codesISO 639-1 deISO 639-2 ger (B) deu (T)ISO 639-3 Variously: deu – German gmh&#
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English is a West Germanic language
West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England
England and is now a global lingua franca.[4][5] Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, it ultimately derives its name from the Anglia (Angeln) peninsula in the Baltic Sea. It is closely related to the Frisian languages, but its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse (a North Germanic
North Germanic language), as well as by Latin
Latin and Romance languages, especially French.[6] English has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century, are called Old English
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Ukrainian /juːˈkreɪniən/ ( listen) (українська мова ukrajinśka mova) is an East Slavic language. It is the official state language of Ukraine
Ukraine and first of two principal languages of Ukrainians; it is one of the three official languages in the unrecognized state of Transnistria, the other two being Romanian and Russian. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic
Cyrillic script (see Ukrainian alphabet). Historical linguists trace the origin of the Ukrainian language
Ukrainian language to the Old East Slavic
Old East Slavic of the early medieval state of Kievan Rus'. After the fall of the Kievan Rus'
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Kievan Rus' as well as the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, the language developed into a form called the Ruthenian language
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The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; Chinese: 中国科学院), with historical origins in the Academia Sinica
Academia Sinica during the Republic of China era, is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China
China (PRC). Collectively known as the "Two Academies (两院)" along with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, it is an institution of China, functioning as the national scientific think tank and academic governing body, providing advisory and appraisal services on issues stemming from the national economy, social development, and science and technology progress. It is headquartered in Beijing, with branch institutes all over mainland China
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The Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO; English: National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity) is a permanent inter-ministerial commission of the Federal Mexican government, created in 1992. It has the primary purpose of coordinating, supporting and executing activities and projects designed to foment understanding of biodiversity within Mexico and the surrounding region. As a governmental agency CONABIO produces and collates biodiversity data and assessments across Mexico's varied ecosystems. It also either administers or guides a range of biological conservation and sustainability projects with the intention of securing benefits to Mexican society as a whole. The mission of CONABIO is to promote, coordinate, support and carry out activities aimed at increasing awareness of biodiversity and its conservation and sustainable use for the benefit of society
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In terrestrial zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and New Latin
New Latin fauna "animal life") are large or giant animals. The most common thresholds used are weight over 40 kilograms (90 lb)[1] or 44 kilograms (100 lb)[2][3] (i.e., comparable or larger in mass than a human) or over a metric ton, 1,000 kilograms (2,205 lb)[1][4][5] (i.e., comparable or larger in mass than an ox). The first of these include many species not popularly thought of as overly large, such as white-tailed deer and red kangaroo. In practice, the most common usage encountered in academic and popular writing describes land mammals roughly larger than a human that are not (solely) domesticated
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The National Science
Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an annual budget of about US$7.0 billion (fiscal year 2012), the NSF funds approximately 24% of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities.[3] In some fields, such as mathematics, computer science, economics, and the social sciences, the NSF is the major source of federal backing. The NSF's director and deputy director are appointed by the President of the United States, and confirmed by the United States Senate, whereas the 24 presidentially appointed members of the National Science
Science Board (NSB)[4] do not require Senate confirmation
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The Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw
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Flickr
Flickr (pronounced "flicker") is an image- and video-hosting website and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp
Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo
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A book is a series of pages assembled for easy portability and reading, as well as the composition contained in it. The book's most common modern form is that of a codex volume consisting of rectangular paper pages bound on one side, with a heavier cover and spine, so that it can fan open for reading. Books have taken other forms, such as scrolls, leaves on a string, or strips tied together; and the pages have been of parchment, vellum, papyrus, bamboo slips, palm leaves, silk, wood, and other materials.[1] The contents of books are also called books, as are other compositions of that length. For instance, Aristotle's Physics, the constituent sections of the Bible, and even the Egyptian Book of the Dead
Book of the Dead are called books independently of their physical form. Conversely, some long literary compositions are divided into books of varying sizes, which typically do not correspond to physically bound units
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Foundation
Foundation may refer to:Contents1 Arts and entertainment1.1 Literature 1.2 Music 1.3 Television2 Education 3 Organizations 4 Science and technology 5 Other uses 6 See alsoArts and entertainment[edit] Literature[edit] Foundation
Foundation series, a series of science fiction books by Isaac Asimov Foundation
Foundation (Isaac Asimov novel), the first book in the series The Foundation
Foundation Trilogy (BBC Radio), a radio adaption of the series Foundation
Foundation – The International Review of Science Fiction, a literary journal Foundation
Foundation (b-boy book), by Joseph G
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In computing, a Digital Object Identifier or DOI is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization
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International Organization for Standardization (ISO).[1] An implementation of the Handle System,[2][3] DOIs are in wide use mainly to identify academic, professional, and government information, such as journal articles, research reports and data sets, and official publications though they also have been used to identify other types of information resources, such as commercial videos. A DOI aims to be "resolvable", usually to some form of access to the information object to which the DOI refers. This is achieved by binding the DOI to metadata about the object, such as a URL, indicating where the object can be found. Thus, by being actionable and interoperable, a DOI differs from identifiers such as ISBNs and ISRCs which aim only to uniquely identify their referents
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