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Architecture (classical Greek: αρχή, 'start', τέχνη, 'craftsmanship') is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. A wider definition would include within its scope the design of the total built environment, from the macrolevel of town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture to the microlevel of creating furniture. Architectural design usually must address both feasibility and cost for the ...

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"Pollutants" may be chemical, biological, thermal, radioactive, or even mechanical. Environmental engineering emphasizes several areas: process engineering, environmental chemistry, water and wastewater treatment (sanitary engineering), waste reduction, and pollution prevention. It is a synthesis, incorporating elements from civil engineering, chemical engineering, public health, mechanical engineering, chemistry, biology, and geology. Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to the environmen ...

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The field of biogeochemistry involves scientific study of the chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes and reactions that govern the composition of the natural environment (including the biosphere, the hydrosphere, the pedosphere, the atmosphere, and the lithosphere), and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earth's chemical components in time and space. Biogeochemistry is a systems science. Biogeochemistry - Biogeochemistry research. There are biogeochemistry research groups i ...

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Agrophysics is a new branch of science bordering on physics and agronomy, whose objects of study are the ecosystem and the biological object affected by human activity, studied and described using the methods of physical sciences. Agrophysics is closely related to biophysics, but is restricted to the biology of the plants and animals involved in agricultural activities and biodiversity. It is different from biophysics in having the necessity of taking into account the specific features of the research objects, which involves the knowledge of ag ...

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, is made up of some 34,600 civilian and 650 military men and women. The Corps' mission is to provide engineering services to the United States, including: Planning, designing, building and operating dams and other civil engineering projects Designing and managing the construction of military facilities for the Army and Air Force Providing design and c ...

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Bioethics is the ethics of biological science and medicine. Bioethics - Definition and scope. Bioethics concerns the ethical questions that arise in the relationships between biology, medicine, cybernetics, politics, law, philosophy, and theology. Disagreement exists about the proper scope for the application of ethical evaluation to questions involving biology. Some bioethicists would narrow ethical evaluation only to the morality of medical treatments or technological innovations, and the timing of ...

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Science (from Latin scientia - knowledge) refers to a system of acquiring knowledge - based on empiricism, experimentation, and methodological naturalism - aimed at finding out the truth. The basic unit of knowledge is the theory, which is a hypothesis that is predictive. The term science also refers to the organized body of knowledge humans have gained by such research. Most scientists feel that scientific investigation must adhere to the scientific method, a process for evaluating empirical knowledge under the w ...

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Ecology, or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how these properties are affected by interactions between the organisms and their environment. The environment of an organism includes both the physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors like climate and geology, as well as the other organisms that share its habitat. The term oekologie was coined in 1866 by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel; the word is derived from the G ...

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• Ecology - Fundamental principles of ecology
• Ecology - Biosphere and biodiversity
• Ecology - The ecosystem concept
• Ecology - Dynamics and stability
• Ecology - Spatial relationships and subdivisions of land
• Ecology - Ecosystem productivity
• Ecology - Ecological crisis

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The idea of a universal language is at least as old as the Biblical story of Babel. Babel's fall has the mythical point that there was once a time of a universal Adamic language (now often associated with the Kabbalah) — and then something happened, analogous to the Fall of Man. In the Christian tradition there are various attitudes to regaining the supposed golden age, before Babel; these include optimism, pessimism, and recourse to parody and warnings on hu ...

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According to the very earliest surviving work on the subject, Vitruvius' De architectura, good buildings satisfy three core principles: Firmness, Commodity, and Delight[1]; architecture can be said to be a balance and coordination among these three elements, with none overpowering the others. A modern day definition sees architecture as addressing aesthetic, structural and functional considerations. However, looked at another way, function itself is seen as encompassing all ...

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Architecture first evolved out of the dynamics between needs (shelter, security, worship, etc.) and means (available building materials and attendant skills). Prehistoric and primitive architecture constitute this early stage. As humans progressed and knowledge began to be formalised through oral traditions and practices, architecture evolved into a craft. Here there is first a process of trial and error, and later improvisation or replicati ...

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The difference between architecture and building is a subject matter that has engaged the attention of many. According to Nikolaus Pevsner, European historian of the early twentieth century, "A bicycle shed is a building, Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture". In current thinking, the division is not too clear. Bernard Rudofsky's famous Architecture Without Architects consolidated a whole range of structures ...

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NSF’s workforce numbers about 1700, nearly all working at its Arlington, Virginia headquarters. That includes about 1200 career employees, 150 scientists from research institutions on temporary duty, 200 contract workers, and the staff of the National Science Board office and the Office of the Inspector General, which examines the foundation's work and reports to the NSB and Congress. ...

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Bioethics concerns the ethical questions that arise in the relationships between biology, medicine, cybernetics, politics, law, philosophy, and theology. Disagreement exists about the proper scope for the application of ethical evaluation to questions involving biology. Some bioethicists would narrow ethical evaluation only to the morality of medical treatments or technological innovations, and the timing of medical treatment of humans. Other bioethicists would broaden the scope of ethical evaluation to include the morality of all actions that might help o ...

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The NSF is considered by some historians of science to be an unsatisfactory compromise between too many clashing visions of the purpose and scope of the federal government. It has suffered from chronic underfunding for decades, even after the passage of the controversial Mansfield Amendment, which was partially intended to reaffirm the role of NSF as the primary civilian government agency for the funding of basic science.See also:

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At first blush, executive agency rulemaking appears to be an oxymoron. Executive agencies are usually charged with executing, not making, the rules. Given the scope of modern regulation, however, legislatures frequently find areas where it is impractical for lawmakers to apply the level of detail or expertise required to establish complete standards. These they delgate to agencies for follow-on rulemaking. Common purposes of rulemaking include: Adding scientific expertise. For example, in the U.S., the Federal Food ...

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Ecology is usually considered a branch of biology, the general science that studies living organisms. Organisms can be studied at many different levels, from proteins and nucleic acids (in biochemistry and molecular biology), to cells (in cellular biology), to individuals (in botany, zoology, and other similar disciplines), and finally at the level of populations, communities, and ecosystems, to the biosphere as a whole; these latter strata are the primary subjects of ecological inquiries. Ecology is a multi-disciplinary science. Because of ...

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Ecology, Ecology - Scope, Ecology - Disciplines of ecology, Ecology - History of ecology, Ecology - Fundamental principles of ecology, Ecology - Biosphere and biodiversity, Ecology - The ecosystem concept, Ecology - Dynamics and stability, Ecology - Spatial relationships and subdivisions of land, Ecology - Ecosystem productivity, Ecology - Ecological crisis

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Throughout the 1950's and 1960's, various branches of federal, state and local governments conducted studies into the numerous sources of air pollution. These studies ultimately attributed a significant portion of existing air pollution to the automobile, and concluded air pollution is not bounded by local geographical or political boundaries. The limited scope local pollution regulations were gradually superseded with more strategically comprehensive, and therefore more effective, state and federal regulations. By 1967 the state of Californ ...

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Fuel injection, Fuel injection - Benefits, Fuel injection - Regulatory Motivation, Fuel injection - Basic Function, Fuel injection - Type of Fuel, Fuel injection - Detailed Function, Fuel injection - Typical EFI Components, Fuel injection - Functional Description, Fuel injection - Sample Pulsewidth Calculations, Fuel injection - Various Injection Schemes, Fuel injection - Throttle Body Injection TBI or CFI, Fuel injection - Continuous Injection, Fuel injection - Central Port Injection CPI, Fuel injection - Sequential Central Point Injection SCPI, Fuel injection - Multi-Port Fuel Injection PFI or EFI or SEFI, Fuel injection - Direct Injection, Fuel injection - Evolution, Fuel injection - Post Emission Era

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Throughout the 1950's and 1960's, various branches of United States federal, state and local governments conducted studies into the numerous sources of air pollution. These studies ultimately attributed a significant portion of existing air pollution to the automobile, and concluded air pollution is not bounded by local geographical or political boundaries. The limited scope local pollution regulations were gradually superseded with more strategically comprehensive, and therefore more effective, state and federal regulations. By 1967 the sta ...

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Fuel injection, Fuel injection - Benefits, Fuel injection - Regulatory Motivation, Fuel injection - Basic Function, Fuel injection - Type of Fuel, Fuel injection - Detailed Function, Fuel injection - Typical EFI Components, Fuel injection - Functional Description, Fuel injection - Sample Pulsewidth Calculations, Fuel injection - Various Injection Schemes, Fuel injection - Throttle Body Injection TBI or CFI, Fuel injection - Continuous Injection, Fuel injection - Central Port Injection CPI, Fuel injection - Sequential Central Point Injection SCPI, Fuel injection - Multi-Port Fuel Injection PFI or EFI or SEFI, Fuel injection - Direct Injection, Fuel injection - Evolution, Fuel injection - Pre-Emission Era, Fuel injection - Post Emission Era

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The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are perhaps alone today in awarding the B.A. for all undergraduate degrees. However, in most universities over the last hundred years the range of bachelor's degrees has expanded enormously, especially in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, where the B.A. degree is becoming increasingly uncommon. Some of these new degrees and their abbreviations include: A.L.B. — Bachelor of Liberal Arts B.A.S. — Bachelor of Architectural Studies B.A.Sc. — Bachelor of ...

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Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree - Honours degrees and academic distinctions, Bachelor's degree - Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees, Bachelor's degree - Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery, Bachelor's degree - New bachelor's degrees

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