Encyclopedia Of Life

picture info	Encyclopedia Of Life Early research and development:1965 (1965): NPL network planning starts 1966 (1966): Merit Network Merit Network founded 1966 (1966): ARPANET [...More...]
picture info	Malay Language Thai alphabet Thai alphabet (in Thailand)Malay BrailleHistorically Pallava alphabet, Kawi alphabet, Rencong alphabet, Rejang scriptSigned formsManually Coded MalaySistem Isyarat Bahasa IndonesiaOfficial statusOfficial language in Brunei Indonesia [...More...]
picture info	FishBase 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 [...More...]
picture info	Alexa Internet Alexa Internet, Inc. is an American web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon. Alexa was founded as an independent company in 1996 and acquired by Amazon in 1999 for $250M in stock. Its toolbar collects data on Internet Internet browsing behavior and transmits them to the Alexa website, where they are stored and analyzed [...More...]
picture info	German Language German (Deutsch, [dɔʏtʃ] (listen)) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol South Tyrol in Italy, the German-speaking Community German-speaking Community of Belgium Belgium and Liechtenstein. It is one of the three official languages of Luxembourg and a co-official language in the Opole Voivodeship Opole Voivodeship in Poland. The languages that are most similar to German are the other members of the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German/Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish. There are strong similarities in vocabulary with Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although those belong to the North Germanic group [...More...]
picture info	English Language 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 [...More...]
picture info	Ukrainian Language Ukrainian /juːˈkreɪniən/ (listen) (українська мова ukrains'ka movaukrɑ'jınʲsʲkɑ 'mɔwɑ) is an East Slavic language. It is the official state language of Ukraine Ukraine and 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 script 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' Kievan Rus' as well as the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, the language developed into a form called the Ruthenian language [...More...]
picture info	Chinese Academy Of Sciences 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 [...More...]
	CONABIO 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 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 [...More...]
picture info	Megafauna 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 [...More...]
picture info	National Science Foundation 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 [...More...]
picture info	Missouri Botanical Garden 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 [...More...]
picture info	Flickr 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 [...More...]
picture info	Book As a physical object, a book is a stack of usually rectangular pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) oriented with one edge tied, sewn, or otherwise fixed together and then bound to the flexible spine of a protective cover of heavier, relatively inflexible material.[1] The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex (in the plural, codices). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its immediate predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf, and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and a still considerable, though not so extensive, investment of time to read. This sense of book has a restricted and an unrestricted sense [...More...]
	All Species Foundation 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 [...More...]
picture info	Digital Object Identifier In computing, a digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to identify objects uniquely, standardized by the 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 identify their referents uniquely [...More...]