Integration may refer to:

Biology

Multisensory integration Multisensory integration, also known as multimodal integration, is the study of how information from the different sensory modalities (such as sight, sound, touch, smell, self-motion, and taste) may be integrated by the nervous system. A coherent r ...

Path integration Path integration is the method thought to be used by animals for dead reckoning. History Charles Darwin first postulated an inertially-based navigation system in animals in 1873.Pre-integration complex The pre-integration complex (PIC) is a nucleoprotein complex of viral genetic material and associated viral and host proteins which is capable of inserting a viral genome into a host genome. The PIC forms after uncoating of a viral particle after e ...

, viral genetic material used to insert a viral genome into a host genome *DNA integration, by means of

site-specific recombinase technology Site-specific recombinase technologies are genome engineering tools that depend on recombinase enzymes to replace targeted sections of DNA. History In the late 1980s gene targeting in murine embryonic stem cells (ESCs) enabled the transmission ...

, performed by a specific class of recombinase enzymes ("integrases")

Economics and law

Economic integration Economic integration is the unification of economic policies between different states, through the partial or full abolition of tariff and Non-tariff barriers to trade, non-tariff restrictions on trade. The trade-stimulation effects intended b ...

, trade unification between different states *

Horizontal integration Horizontal integration is the process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain. A company may do this via internal expansion, acquisition or merger. The process can lead to monopoly if a co ...

and

vertical integration In microeconomics, management and international political economy, vertical integration is a term that describes the arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is integrated and owned by that company. Usually each member of the suppl ...

, in microeconomics and strategic management, styles of ownership and control *

Regional integration Regional Integration is a process in which neighboring countries enter into an agreement in order to upgrade cooperation through common institutions and rules. The objectives of the agreement could range from economic to political to enviro ...

, in which states cooperate through regional institutions and rules *

Integration clause In contract law, an integration clause, merger clause, (sometimes, particularly in the United Kingdom, referred to as an entire agreement clause) is a clause in a written contract which declares that contract to be the complete and final agreeme ...

, a declaration that a contract is the final and complete understanding of the parties *A step in the process of

money laundering Money laundering is the process of concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source. It is a crime in many jurisdictions ...

Integrated farming Integrated Farming (IF), integrated production or Integrated Farm Management is a whole farm management system which aims to deliver more sustainable agriculture. Integrated Farming combines modern tools and technologies with traditional practices ...

, a farm management system * Integration (tax), a feature of corporate and personal income tax in some countries

Engineering

Data integration Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of them. This process becomes significant in a variety of situations, which include both commercial (such as when two similar companies ...

* Digital integration *

Enterprise integration Enterprise integration is a technical field of enterprise architecture, which is focused on the study of topics such as system interconnection, electronic data interchange, product data exchange and distributed computing environments. It is a c ...

*Integrated architecture, in an

Enterprise architecture framework An enterprise architecture framework (EA framework) defines how to create and use an enterprise architecture. An architecture framework provides principles and practices for creating and using the architecture description of a system. It struct ...

approach such as DoDAF *

Integrated circuit An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny ...

, an electronic circuit whose components are manufactured in one flat piece of semiconductor material *

Integrated design Integrated design is a comprehensive holistic approach to design which brings together specialisms usually considered separately. It attempts to take into consideration all the factors and modulations necessary to a decision making process. A few ...

, an approach to design which brings together specialisms usually considered separately *

Integrated product team An integrated product team (IPT) is a multidisciplinary group of people who are collectively responsible for delivering a defined product or process. IPTs are used in complex development programs/projects for review and decision making. The emphas ...

, use of a team including multiple disciplines (e.g. customer, engineer, support, testing) *

Integrated software Integrated software is a software for personal computers that combines the most commonly used functions of many productivity software programs into one application. The integrated software genre has been largely overshadowed by fully functional o ...

System integration System integration is defined in engineering as the process of bringing together the component sub- systems into one system (an aggregation of subsystems cooperating so that the system is able to deliver the overarching functionality) and ensuring ...

, engineering practices for assembling large and complicated systems from units, particularly subsystems

Mathematics

* Integration, the computation of an

integral In mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented i ...

** Indefinite integration, the computation of

antiderivative In calculus, an antiderivative, inverse derivative, primitive function, primitive integral or indefinite integral of a function is a differentiable function whose derivative is equal to the original function . This can be stated symbolically ...

s **

Numerical integration In analysis, numerical integration comprises a broad family of algorithms for calculating the numerical value of a definite integral, and by extension, the term is also sometimes used to describe the numerical solution of differential equations ...

, computing an integral with a numerical method, usually with a computer **

Integration by parts In calculus, and more generally in mathematical analysis, integration by parts or partial integration is a process that finds the integral of a product of functions in terms of the integral of the product of their derivative and antiderivative. ...

, a method for computing the integral of a product of functions **

Integration by substitution In calculus, integration by substitution, also known as ''u''-substitution, reverse chain rule or change of variables, is a method for evaluating integrals and antiderivatives. It is the counterpart to the chain rule for differentiation, and can ...

, a method for computing integrals, by using a change of variable **

Symbolic integration In calculus, symbolic integration is the problem of finding a formula for the antiderivative, or ''indefinite integral'', of a given function ''f''(''x''), i.e. to find a differentiable function ''F''(''x'') such that :\frac = f(x). This is also ...

, the computation, mostly on computers, of antiderivatives and definite integrals in term of formulas * Integration, the computation of a solution of a differential equation or a system of differential equations: **

Integrability conditions for differential systems In mathematics, certain systems of partial differential equations are usefully formulated, from the point of view of their underlying geometric and algebraic structure, in terms of a system of differential forms. The idea is to take advantage of the ...

** Integrable system * Order of integration, in statistics, a summary statistic for a time series

Sociology

*Social integration, in social science, a movement of newcomers or marginalized minorities into the mainstream of a society *Racial integration, including desegregation and other changes in social opportunity and culture **Desegregation, ending a separation of races, particularly in the context of the American civil rights movement *Educational integration of students with disabilities

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