pseudepigraphal work (not included in any canon of scripture) whose only complete extant version is an Ethiopic translation of a previous Greek translation made in Palestine from the original Hebrew ... [4 Related Articles]
pseudepigraphal work whose only extant version is a Slavonic translation of the Greek original. The Slavonic edition is a Christian work, probably of the 7th century Ad, but it rests ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Dependent States") It was reported in May 2005 that as of January 1, Greenland had 56,969 inhabitants, including 14,874 in the capital, Nuuk. The ruling coalition of Prime Minister Hans Enoksen's centrist ...
(from the article "heredity") ...form occasionally changes spontaneously to the enol form, which has different base-pairing properties. For example, the keto form of cytosine pairs with guanine (its normal pairing partner), but the enol ...
(from the article "metabolism") The 3-phosphoglycerate in step [7] now forms 2-phosphoglycerate, in a reaction catalyzed by phosphoglyceromutase [8]. During step [9] the enzyme enolase reacts with 2-phosphoglycerate to form phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), water being ...
(from the article "acid-base reaction") ...to give beta-hydroxy aldehydes. The prototype of this reaction is the conversion of acetaldehyde to beta-hydroxybutyraldehyde, or aldol. The first step of this reaction is the production of an enolate ...
(from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") ...2,460 charred grape seeds and 300 grape skins that were discovered within the remains of a 6,500-year-old house at the Neolithic site Diliki Tash appeared to provide the earliest-known evidence ...
Japanese naval officer and statesman who was the last supporter of the Tokugawa family-which ruled Japan for 264 years-to capitulate to the forces that favoured the restoration of power to ...
(from the article "Thompson, John Griggs") ...factors. Thompson's revolutionary ideas inspired and permeated an effort, hitherto considered hopeless, to determine all the finite simple groups. The solution of this problem, the so-called "Enormous Theorem," was announced ...
(from the article "Cyprus") ...1959 between representatives of the governments of Greece and Turkey, was not widely accepted by the citizens of the new republic. The Greek Cypriots, whose struggle against the British had ...
(from the article "metabolism") ...reversal of reaction [24]). NADP+ is thus a product in [65]. In [66] beta-hydroxybutyryl-S-ACP is dehydrated (i.e., one molecule of water is removed), in a reaction catalyzed by enoyl-ACP-hydrase, and ...
(from the article "plant disease") ...or among people"). A more precise term when speaking of plants, however, is epiphytotic ("on plants"); for animals, the corresponding term is epizootic. In contrast, endemic (enphytotic) diseases occur at ...
any of a group of extreme revolutionaries in France in 1793, led by a former priest, Jacques Roux, and Varlet, a postal official, who advocated social and economic measures in ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "cereal processing") Enrichment of breakfast cereals with minerals, and especially with vitamins, is now common practice. In many of the manufacturing processes employed in breakfast-food production, considerable vitamin destruction occurs. The various ...
(from the article "nuclear reactor") ...is found in natural uranium, there are just a few combinations and arrangements of this and other materials that can be brought to criticality. To increase the range of feasible ...
(from the article "Literature") Also unexpected was the awarding of the 2007 Man Booker Prize-Britain's most prestigious literary award-to Irish writer Anne Enright. The other six novels on the short list were higher profile ...
(from the article "children's literature") ...The American-style, wholesome, humorous family story was more than competently developed by Eleanor Estes, with her "Moffat" series (1941-43) and Ginger Pye (1951); Elizabeth Enright, with her Melendy family (1941-44); ...
(from the article "Admiral carpet") ...with coats of arms against a background diaper (all-over pattern) of small octagons, many of which contain eight-pointed stars; the shields of some of these carpets bear the arms of ...
(from the article "Dominican Republic") ...of Haiti; its high peaks reach approximately 7,200 feet (2,200 metres). Water flowing off the Neiba range drains partly to the Caribbean, via the Yaque del Sur system, and partly ...
(from the article "Bounty System") ...along with states and localities, paid about $750,000,000 in recruitment bounties. Congress authorized a $100 bounty in July 1861 to men enlisting for three years. With the passage of the ...
As 2002 began, energy trader Enron Corp. found itself at the centre of one of corporate America's biggest scandals. In less than a year, Enron had gone from being considered ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "metaphysics") ...existence of something else. When Aristotle sought to inquire into the most real of all things, or when medieval philosophers attempted to establish the characteristics of what they called the ...
gemeente (municipality), eastern Netherlands, on the Twente Canal, near the German border, comprising the villages of Lonneker, Glanerbrug, and Boekelo and the town of Enschede. Chartered in ...
(from the article "chamber music") music composed for small ensembles of instrumentalists. In its original sense chamber music referred to music composed for the home, as opposed to that written for the theatre or church. ...
(from the article "theatrical production") During the 19th century there evolved new theories of production that affected both styles of performance and methods of rehearsal. Gradually, the idea of ensemble arose, stressing harmony of ideal ...
Spanish statesman who, as prime minister from 1743 to 1754, pursued a vigorous reform policy that succeeded in advancing internal prosperity and promoting military strength. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "eastern Africa") The presence of distinct agricultural zones at different elevations is most marked in Ethiopia, where the distinctive "false banana," or ensete, is grown at medium elevations in the forest belt ...
(from the article "Gurage") Settled agriculturalists, the Gurage centre their lives on the cultivation of their staple crop, the Ethiopian banana (Ensete ventricosum), prized not for its "false" (or inedible) fruit ...
(from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") The lords of Lagash rarely fail to call themselves by the title of ensi, of as yet undetermined derivation; "city ruler," or "prince," are only approximate translations. Only seldom do ...
floor covering, usually about 1.4 × 1.5 metres (4.5 feet × 5 feet), of a type apparently woven by all Turkmen tribes, with enough similarity in format to suggest that ...
any of a group of wasps (order Hymenoptera) that are so named because the small, oval abdomen is held high like an ensign, or flag. A few hundred species of ...
(from the article "bivalve") ...right valves. In deeper-burrowing species the shells are laterally compressed, permitting more rapid movement through the sediments. The shells of the most efficient burrowers, the razor clams Ensis and Solen, ...
meteorite whose descent from the sky onto a wheat field in Alsace (now part of France) in 1492 is one of the earliest instances of a meteorite fall on record. ...
(from the article "gas") ...predicted theoretically before it was observed experimentally, but a rather elaborate explanation was required because simple theory suggests no such phenomenon. It was predicted in 1911-12 by David Enskog in ...
(from the article "Feminism Reimagined: The Third Wave") ...self-presentations. Slang used derogatorily in most earlier contexts became proud and defiant labels. The spirit and intent of the third wave shone through the raw honesty, humour, and horror of ...
common silicate mineral in the pyroxene family. It is the stable form of magnesium silicate (MgSiO3, often with up to 10 percent iron) at low temperatures. See orthopyroxene. [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "chondrite") ...Chondrites are divided into three main classes based on their bulk chemical compositions, oxygen isotopic compositions, and petrology. These are carbonaceous chondrites, ordinary chondrites, and enstatite chondrites.meteorites
in architecture, assemblage of horizontal moldings and bands supported by and located immediately above the columns of Classical buildings or similar structural supports in non-Classical buildings. [2 Related Articles]
in feudal English law, an interest in land bound up inalienably in the grantee and then forever to his direct descendants. A basic condition of entail was that if the ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "applied logic") Here item 3 is a form of the entailment principle, but with &obvconseq; representing entailment of the simplest sort, designating obvious consequence-say, deducibility by fewer than two (or n) inferential ...
protozoan genus of the rhizopodian order Amoebida. Most species are parasitic in the intestines of many vertebrates, including humans; E. histolytica is the cause of human amebic dysentery. The cell ...
(from the article "Entamoeba") Another species, E. gingivalis, is found around the gum margins, especially in unhealthy or pyorrheic mouths. It has not, however, been shown to cause disease.
(from the article "Entamoeba") ...droppings. Excystment (emergence from the cyst) occurs in the vertebrate intestine. The species sometimes is separated by size into the larger, pathogenic form and the smaller, nonpathogenic form, E. hartmanni.
(from the article "dysentery") Amebic dysentery, or intestinal amebiasis, is caused by the protozoan Entamoeba histolytica. This form of dysentery, which traditionally occurs in the tropics, is usually much more chronic and insidious than ...
(from the article "opalinid") ...is ingested by another host. Opalinids are found worldwide, although species vary with location. One species, Zelleriella opisthocarya, is itself parasitized by another protozoan, Entamoeba paulista.
(from the article "net") ...surrounding (encircling, or encompassing) nets, and trap nets. Drift nets-which include gill and trammel nets used at the surface and bottom-set nets used on the seabed-capture fish by entangling them. ...
in architecture, the convex curve given to a column, spire, or similar upright member, in an attempt to correct the optical illusion of hollowness or weakness that would arise from ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Flumendosa River") river that rises in the Gennargentu Mountains in southeastern Sardinia, Italy, and flows 79 miles (127 km) west and southeast, entering the Tyrrhenian Sea near Muravera. The Ente Autonomo del ...
city, south-central Uganda, eastern Africa, at the end of a peninsula jutting into Lake Victoria 21 miles (34 km) south of Kampala. Founded as a garrison post in 1893, it ... [1 Related Articles]
(July 3-4, 1976), rescue by an Israeli commando squad of 103 hostages from a French jet airliner en route from Israel to France that, after stopping at Athens, had been ... [4 Related Articles]
(from Greek entelecheia), in philosophy, that which realizes or makes actual what is otherwise merely potential. The concept is intimately connected with Aristotle's distinction between matter and form, or the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "artiodactyl") ...appears as successive waves of groups, each better adapted than its predecessors to the changing environment. In the suiform line, the earlier palaeodonts are succeeded by other groups such as ...
(from the article "Lagash") ...Lagash monuments of that period is the Stele of the Vultures, erected to celebrate the victory of King Eannatum over the neighbouring state of Umma. Another is the engraved silver ...
(from the article "African music") ...pitch and timbre are frequently played in ensembles, with or without other instruments, to accompany dancing. Though the role of drums is usually rhythmic, the entenga drum ...
(April 8, 1904), Anglo-French agreement that, by settling a number of controversial matters, ended antagonisms between Great Britain and France and paved the way for their diplomatic cooperation against German ... [12 Related Articles]
(from the article "drug") Drugs are given by two general methods: enteral and parenteral administration. Enteral administration involves the esophagus, stomach, and small and large intestines (i.e., the gastrointestinal tract). Methods of administration include ...
(from the article "pharmaceutical industry") ...where it will be absorbed, to simplify dosing schedules, and to assure that concentration of drug is maintained over an appropriate time interval. One type of modified-release dosage form is ...
(from the article "salmonellosis") ...a type of food poisoning in humans and of several diseases in domestic animals. The term salmonellosis has been used generally for two main kinds of gastrointestinal diseases in humans: ...
(from the article "nervous system, human") The enteric nervous system is composed of two plexuses, or networks of neurons, embedded in the wall of the gastrointestinal tract. The outermost plexus, located between the inner circular and ...
inflammation of the intestines (especially of the small intestine), caused by irritants, poisons, viral or bacterial infections, or unknown factors. The symptoms are extremely variable but usually include continuous or ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "drug") ...and Proteus species. Cefamandole is active against many strains of Haemophilus influenzae and Enterobacter, while cefoxitin is particularly active against
(from the article "rectocele") ...the rectum and back wall of the vagina are weakened, usually due to repeated childbirth or to aging, and the rectum sags until it abuts the vagina. A rectocele often ...
(from the article "receptor") ...to which they respond (photoreceptor, chemoreceptor, etc.). More broadly, they are sometimes categorized by the source of their stimuli, exteroceptors reacting to stimuli from outside the organism, enteroceptors to stimuli ...
(from the article "digestive system, human") Serotonin, or 5-hydroxytryptamine, is an amine that is formed from amino acid 5-hydroxytrytophan in the enterochromaffin cells (EC) and in other similar cells called enterochromaffin-like cells (ECL). These cells also ...
(from the article "digestive system, human") Serotonin, or 5-hydroxytryptamine, is an amine that is formed from amino acid 5-hydroxytrytophan in the enterochromaffin cells (EC) and in other similar cells called enterochromaffin-like cells (ECL). These cells also ...
any animal in which the mesoderm-lined body cavity (coelom) arises in the embryonic stage as an outpocketing of the developing gut (enteron). This form of development, found in echinoderms (e.g., ...
(from the article "enteritis") ...bloody, accompanied by painful abdominal cramps. Fever is common and sometimes overshadows the digestive symptoms; serious complications may occur, especially in infants and the elderly. Enterocolitis involves the colon as ...
(from the article "digestive system, human") Peptidase activity commences outside the enterocytes (in the mucus and brush border) and continues inside the cell. A different peptidase appears to be involved in each stage of the breakdown ...
a hormone secreted by the duodenal mucosa when fatty food is in the stomach or small intestine; it is also thought to be released when sugars and proteins are in ...
(from the article "tunicate") Fixed as adults, solitary or colonial, oral and atrial apertures usually directed away from substrate; about 2,500 species.Gonads unpaired, either within or behind intestinal loop; body may be divided ...
(from the article "lipid") ...in fat digestion (described in the section Fatty acids), they are reabsorbed in the lower small intestine, returned through the blood to the liver, and reused. This cyclic process, called ...
proteolytic enzyme (q.v.), secreted from the duodenal mucosa, that changes the inactive pancreatic secretion trypsinogen into trypsin, one of the enzymes that digest proteins. Enterokinase is believed to be produced ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "medusa") ...The medusoid body is bell- or umbrella-shaped. Hanging downward from the centre is a stalklike structure, the manubrium, bearing the mouth at its tip. The mouth opens into the main ...
(from the article "livestock farming") ...even loss of the hoof. The more persistent type is caused by a specific organism that is difficult to treat. The pain and the restricted movement of infected sheep result ...
(from the article "cholera") ...the bacterium's cell wall. The only strains of V. cholerae known to cause cholera-strains O1 and O139-have the ability to produce a type of toxin called an ...
(from the article "picornavirus") ...a large group of the smallest known animal viruses, "pico" referring to small size and "rna" referring to its core of ribonucleic acid (RNA). This group includes enteroviruses, which attack ...
city, Coffee county, southeastern Alabama, U.S., about 90 miles (145 km) southeast of Montgomery. It was founded in 1881 by John Henry Carmichael near the community of Drake Eye. In ...
(from the article "zaibatsu") After the signing of the peace treaty in 1951, many companies began associating into what became known as enterprise groups (kigyo shudan). Those created with companies that were formerly part ...
(from the article "economic growth") ...capital but that overall growth and technical progress will proceed at a much more rapid rate in one than in the other because of differences in the quality of new ...
(from the article "Computers and Information Systems") The struggle, which had begun with Oracle's initial bid for PeopleSoft in 2003, created turmoil in the market for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software-software that corporations used to record and ...
the organization of a single trade union within one plant or multiplant enterprise rather than within a craft or industry. It is especially prevalent in Japan, where nearly all Japanese ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Greene, Graham") ...Express), which plays off various characters against each other as they ride a train from the English Channel to Istanbul. This was the first of a string of novels that ...
the sum of the internal energy and the product of the pressure and volume of a thermodynamic system. Enthalpy is an energy-like property or state function-it has the dimensions of ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "reaction, heat of") ...present at the end of the reaction and the enthalpy of the substances present at the start of the reaction. Thus, the heat of reaction determined at constant pressure is ...
(from the article "biblical literature") ...The life setting of the hymns was generally an occasion of common worship. Two subgroups within this type are the Songs of Zion, which glorify Yahweh's presence in the city ...
in syllogistic, or traditional, logic, name of a syllogistic argument that is incompletely stated. In the argument "All insects have six legs; therefore, all wasps have six legs," the minor ... [2 Related Articles]
one of the 12 soil orders in the U.S. Soil Taxonomy. Entisols are soils defined by the absence or near absence of horizons (layers) that clearly reflect soil-forming processes. Occupying ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "famine") In the late 20th century the work of the Indian economist Amartya Sen led to a major reorientation in the study of famines. In works such as
(from the article "Nozick, Robert") ...the rectification of past injustices in the acquisition or transfer of holdings. According to Nozick, anyone who acquired what he has through these means is morally entitled to it. Thus ...
any ciliated protozoan of the order Entodiniomorphida. They are harmless parasites in the rumen and intestines of cattle, horses, and other herbivores. Entodiniomorphs are common and extremely numerous: one cow ...
branch of zoology dealing with the scientific study of insects. The Greek word entomon, meaning "notched," refers to the segmented body plan of the insect. The zoological categories of genetics, ... [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "fungus") ...parasitic; coenocytic or septate mycelium; rhizoids formed by some species; conidiophore branched or unbranched; conidia forcibly discharged; contains one order.Primarily parasitic on insects, some may be saprobic in soil; ...
(from the article "fungus") ...(thick-walled asexual spores); produces garliclike odour; example genera include Mortierella, Dissophora, and Modicella.Pathogenic, saprobic, or parasitic; coenocytic or septate mycelium; rhizoids formed by some...
(from the article "virus") ...least 40 proteins and lipids, as well as internal structures called lateral bodies. The 2 subfamilies are called Chordopoxvirinae, which infect vertebrates and are closely related antigenically, and Entomopoxvirinae, which ...
any member of the phylum Entoprocta, a group of aquatic invertebrate animals composed of about 150 species. Entoprocts occur throughout the world, primarily in marine habitats, although one genus, Urnatella, ... [1 Related Articles]
