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McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, publishing, and business services.
Brands are developed and supported to provide consumers with a trusted experience or expected quality level, which is expected to result in repeat sales and a premium price over unknown products. The protection of brands from attacks, illegal infringement, or risks is called brand security and is also sometimes referred to as brand protection, brand integrity, or product protection.
Industry:Science
Cognitive psychology seeks to understand the integral processes involved in solving problems. Problems represent gaps between where one is and where one wishes to be, or between what one knows and what one wishes to know. Problem solving is the process of closing these gaps by finding missing information, reevaluating what is already known, or, in some cases, redefining the problem.
Industry:Science
Extinct members of the order of mammals to which humans belong. All current classifications divide the living primates into two major groups (suborders), but zoologists differ as to whether the tarsier (<i>Tarsius</i>) should be classified with the lower primates (lemurs, lorises, and bushbabies) or the higher primates (New and Old World monkeys, greater and lesser apes, and humans).
Industry:Science
Extremely small—usually 0.3 to 2.0 micrometers in diameter—and relatively simple microorganisms possessing the prokaryotic type of cell construction. Although traditionally classified within the fungi as Schizomycetes, they show no phylogenetic affinities with the fungi, which are eukaryotic organisms. The only group that is clearly related to the bacteria are the blue-green algae.
Industry:Science
Any of a number of textile fibers produced from chemical substances of natural origin or synthetic origin; the latter are also known as synthetic fibers. Among the natural sources of manufactured fibers are plant cellulose and protein, rubber, metals, and nonmetallic inorganics. The synthetic fibers are produced from organic intermediates derived from petroleum, coal, and natural gas.
Industry:Science
Cessation of life functions. This can involve the whole organism (somatic death), individual organs (organ death), individual cells (cellular death), and individual parts of cells (organelle death). Although the next smaller level or organization, the macromolecules that make up the cell organelles, may also cease to function, their disintegration is ordinarily not spoken of as death.
Industry:Science
Gene therapy is the transfer of genetic material into specific cells of a patient to treat disease. It has been successfully used to treat several inherited metabolic diseases in pet animals, although none of the treatments is near to being routine in clinical veterinary medicine. The diseases have been studied primarily as a means to develop therapy for humans with homologous disorders.
Industry:Science
General mental ability due to the integrative and adaptive functions of the brain that permit complex, unstereotyped, purposive responses to novel or changing situations, involving discrimination, generalization, learning, concept formation, inference, mental manipulation of memories, images, words and abstract symbols, eduction of relations and correlates, reasoning, and problem solving.
Industry:Science
Fire may be extinguished by the following methods: (1) cooling the burning materials; (2) blanketing the fire with inert gas that chokes it for lack of oxygen; (3) introducing materials that inhibit combustion; and (4) covering the burning matter with a blanket or a layer of solid particles that prevent access of air. Fire extinguishers operate on one or a combination of these principles.
Industry:Science
In a formal deductive system, a proposition accepted without proof, from which other propositions are deduced by the conventional methods of formal logic. There is a certain arbitrariness as to which propositions are to be treated as postulates, because when certain proved propositions are treated as such, other propositions which were originally postulates often become proved propositions.
Industry:Science
