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Any treatment or therapy that is primarily psychological in nature. In recent years, counseling also has been included in this categorization. The number of different forms of psychotherapy has increased tremendously, particularly in the past three or four decades. Once the main forms of psychotherapy were Freud's psychoanalysis and those of his former disciples. Now there are at least 400 different forms of psychotherapy.
Industry:Science
Broadly, the various ways and means by which people communicate with one another over some distance. In a narrow sense, a teleconference is a two-way, interactive meeting, between relatively small groups of people (approximately 1 to 10 at each end), who usually use permanent teleconferencing facilities. A teleconference involves audio communication between the locations, but may also involve video, graphics, or facsimile.
Industry:Science
Identifying storm formation, monitoring subsequent storm evolution, and assessing the potential for destruction of life and property through application of various methods and techniques. Doppler radars, satellite-borne instruments, lightning detection networks, and surface observing networks are used to detect the genesis of storms, to diagnose their nature, and to issue warnings when a threat to life and property exists.
Industry:Science
Classes of conjugated proteins consisting of a protein combined with a lipid. The normal functioning of higher organisms requires movement of insoluble lipids between tissues. These lipids include cholesterol, used for cell membranes, steroid hormones, and bile; and triglyceride, a major form of dietary and stored energy. To accomplish this movement, lipids are incorporated into macromolecular complexes called lipoproteins.
Industry:Science
Centriole-based, motile cell extensions. These organelles are usually indistinguishable in fine structure as seen with the electron microscope, but quantitatively there are many (several hundred) cilia and few or fewer (usually one or two) flagella, on one cell. Bacterial or prokaryotic flagella are entirely different organelles that are not considered in this article, which concerns only eukaryotic (higher-cell) flagella.
Industry:Science
Changes of state brought about by a change in an intensive variable (for example, temperature or pressure) of a system. Some familiar examples of phase transitions are the gas-liquid transition (condensation), the liquid-solid transition (freezing), the normal-to-superconducting transition in electrical conductors, the paramagnet-to-ferromagnet transition in magnetic materials, and the superfluid transition in liquid helium.
Industry:Science
Any alcohol burned as a fuel. Generally, the term alcohol refers to ethanol, the first organic chemical produced by humans. If available, any alcohol may be used as a fuel, but ethanol and methanol are the only ones which are sufficiently inexpensive. Alcohols are useful fuels, even though the oxygen atom in any alcohol molecule reduces its heating value, because the molecular structure increases the combustion efficiency.
Industry:Science
Any of seven species of deciduous, nut-bearing trees of the genus <i> Castanea</i> (order Fagales) native to the Northern Hemisphere and introduced throughout the world. The nuts are actually fruits, with the shells enclosing cotyledons. Trees bear both male and female flowers in late spring but must be cross-pollinated for nut production. Nuts are borne in a spiny involucre or bur that opens to release the nuts in late fall.
Industry:Science
Consciousness has become an important subject of scientific research, due in part to the emergence of B. J. Baars' global workspace theory of consciousness. One direction of this research involves designing and building “conscious” software agents that implement global workspace theory. Such implementations serve to flesh out the theory and to provide testable hypotheses for cognitive scientists and cognitive neuroscientists.
Industry:Science
In astronomy the motion of a material body through space under the influence of its own inertia, a central force, and other forces. Johannes Kepler found empirically that the orbital motions of the planets about the Sun are ellipses. Isaac Newton, starting from his laws of motion, proved that an inverse-square gravitational field of force requires a body to move in an orbit that is a circle, ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
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