Portal United States Marine Corps The Marine Corps IntelligenceActivity MCIA , is a field activity of Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps and a member of both the Defense Intelligence Agency Defense Intelligence Enterprise and the United States Intelligence Community . The MCIA describes itself as a vital part of military intelligence corporate enterprise, and functions in a collegial, effective manner with other service agencies and with the joint intelligence centers of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Unified Combatant Command Unified Commands . The Marine Corps IntelligenceActivity mission is to provide intelligence services to the Marine Corps and the U.S. Intelligence Community. These services are based on expeditionary mission profiles in littoral zone littoral areas . It supports the development of service doctrine, force structure, training and education, and acquisition. MCIA determines what missions the Corps needs to carry out as well as who will need to be trained for that mission. MCIA is in partnership with Office of Naval Intelligence and Coast Guard Intelligence Office of Coast Guard Intelligence in the National Maritime Intelligence Center and at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia . External links http www.quantico.usmc.mil activities ?Section MCIA US Marine Corps navbox Intelligence agencies of USA Category Military units and formations of the United States Marine Corps Category United States intelligence agencies USMC stub de Marine Corps IntelligenceActivity ru ... more details
Use dmy dates date May 2011 Infobox military unit unit name Intelligence Support Activity image Image ISA badge.jpg 180px caption Intelligence Support Activity patch dates 1981 country United States allegiance ... br Operation Iraqi Freedom anniversaries The United States Army Intelligence Support Activity USAISA , frequently shortened to Intelligence Support Activity or ISA , and nicknamed The Activity is a United ... Intelligence Support Activity. ref name richelson This activity should not be confused with a later activity known as the Ground Intelligence Support Activity GISA , as subordinated to the Army G2. Badge ... clan s badges. The US Army Intelligence Support Activity Build up In 1981 the Intelligence Support ... Activity, 1981 1989 , by Jeffrey T. Richelson , article of the International Journal of Intelligence ... document8.pdf Charter of U.S. Army Intelligence Support Activity , circa mid 1983 http www.gwu.edu ... United States Army Intelligence Support Activity 1986 Historical Report http www.gwu.edu nsarchiv NSAEBB NSAEBB46 document12b.pdf United States Army Intelligence Support Activity 1987 Historical ... index.php?title Intelligence Support Activity SourceWatch s article about the ISA. US Special Operations ... Operations Command de Intelligence Support Activity fr Intelligence Support Activity pl Intelligence ... of the battlefield, provides HUMINT and signals intelligence SIGINT size command structure current commander garrison ceremonial chief colonel of the regiment nickname The Activity patron motto ... to the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command US Army Intelligence and Security Command INSCOM . It is tasked to collect actionable intelligence in advance of missions by other ... the U.S. shortfall in intelligence gathering, ref http www.gwu.edu nsarchiv NSAEBB NSAEBB46 document6.pdf Memorandum for Director, Defense Intelligence Agency ref in spite of the attempts by Major ... Jerry King military Jerry King , and operated in Iran , accomplishing various covert intelligence ... more details
deliberate and unintentional espionage activities. Intelligenceactivity worldwide In recent years ...Multiple issues refimprove March 2009 cleanup March 2008 Chinese intelligence is believed to be highly ... Online Asia Times date 2008 04 03 accessdate 2008 04 07 ref China is the largest intelligence collector in the Netherlands , as well as in several other EU countries, and one of the top five intelligence collectors in the United States . Chinese human intelligence operations primarily rely on collecting ... Method of operation It is generally believed that Chinese intelligence agencies operate differently ... Human Intelligence Collection work Public Broadcasting Service PBS date 2004 04 22 accessdate 2008 ... Washington Post date 2008 04 03 accessdate 2008 04 07 ref Much information about the Chinese intelligence ..., said that Chinese intelligence operatives work by approaching ethnic Chinese by reminding them of Chinese ... intelligence agency 2011 04 08 AF14S00C story.html publisher The Washington Post author The Associated ... on Uighur exiles for Chinese intelligence agency ref Poland In May 2009, Stefan Zielonka, a Poles ... Polish cipher officer worked for Chinese intelligence? publisher Polskie Radio date 22 December 2009 ... worked for chinese intelligence .html ref Zielonka s body was later retrieved from the Vistula river ... , Germany and the United States , and ultimately sentenced for illegal espionage activity. ref http ... ref United Kingdom UK officials, including experts at its MI5 intelligence agency, are fearful that China ... embedded within it. And, India s intelligence service, Research and Analysis Wing RAW believes ... to China since 2007 Military intelligence officer Lo Chi cheng was found to have been acting ... in Canada,June 15, 2005 ref The head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Richard Fadden ... and municipal levels had ties to Chinese intelligence, but he withdrew the statement a few days later ... publisher The Sydney Morning Herald ref United States Main Chinese intelligence operations in the United ... more details
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity IARPA is a United States research agency under the Director of National Intelligence s responsibility. In January 2008, Lisa Porter , an administrator at NASA with experience at DARPA , was appointed director ref http www.usatoday.com tech news techinnovations 2007 05 31 iarpa spy tools N.htm New IARPA agency developing spy tools , USA Today ref of the activity formed in 2006 from the National Security Agency s Disruptive Technology Office DTO , the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency s National Technology Alliance and the Central Intelligence Agency s Intelligence Technology Innovation Center. ref http www.afcea.org signal articles templates SIGNAL Article Template.asp?articleid 1399 Igniting a Technical Renaissance , Maryann Lawlor, Signal, October 2007 ref Goals Quote box quote IARPA s mission is to invest in high risk high payoff research programs that have the potential to provide the United States with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries. source FBI National Press Release, 2009 ref http www.fbi.gov news pressrel press releases national security higher education advisory board meets at fbi headquarters Federal Bureau of Investigation National Press Release, 03 November, 2009 ref width 40 align right The Director of National Intelligence in a September 2006 speech stated that the goal of the agency ... of National Intelligence Ambassador John D. Negroponte , Woodrow Wilson International Center ... across multiple United States Intelligence Community IC agencies Targets new opportunities that lie ... www.nature.com news 2009 090603 full 459625a.html Spooky research cuts US intelligence agency axes ... form&id 4a9f5f34b6cf627e247ca91920de5bcf&tab core& cview 1&cck 1&au &ck National Intelligence ... States government Category United States intelligence agencies no Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity ... more details
wiktionary Activity may mean Action philosophy , in general The Aristotelian concept of energeia , Latinized as actus Physical exercise Activity UML , a major task in Unified Modeling Language Activity diagram , a diagram representing activities in Unified Modeling Language Activity , an alternative name for the game charades Activity , the rate of catalytic activity, such as enzyme activity enzyme assay , in physical chemistry and enzymology Activity chemistry , the effective concentration of a solute for the purposes of mass action Activity project management Activity radioactivity , radioactive decay Radioactive decay rates , the number of radioactive decays per second Activity software engineering Activity soil mechanics HMS Activity D94 , an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy in military parlance, a military agency or unit e.g. Intelligence Support ActivityActivity Theory , social constructivism learning theory , Education The special spelling Activiti may mean Activiti software Activiti , an open source Business Process Management BPM Platform See also Active disambiguation disambig ca Activitat cs Aktivita de Aktivit t es Actividad desambiguaci n eu Jarduera argipena fr Activit it Attivit nl Activiteit pl Aktywno pt Atividade ru sk Aktivita uk ur ... more details
Infobox Book name On Intelligence title orig translator image Image OnInt.png 200px border On Intelligence image caption Front Cover author Jeff Hawkins & Sandra Blakeslee illustrator cover artist country Image Flag of the United States.svg 20px United States language English language English series subject Psychology genre publisher Times Books release date 2004 english release date media type Paperback ... by followed by On Intelligence How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly ... intelligence and building intelligent machines have failed. I then introduce and develop ... intelligence research. Hawkins uses a story of his failed application to the Massachusetts Institute ... creating true artificial intelligence will only be possible with intellectual progress in the discipline ... historically rejected the relevance of neuroscience to artificial intelligence. Indeed, some artificial intelligence researchers have taken pride in ignoring neurobiology p. 12 . Hawkins is an electrical ... Predictions Enhanced neural activity in anticipation of a sensory event 1. In all areas of Cerebral .... In layers 2 and 3, predictive activity neural firing should stop propagating at specific cells, corresponding ... activity 8. Hawkins predicts a cascade of predictions, when recognition occurs, propagating down ... cells should detect coincidences of synaptic activity on thin dendrites 9. Pyramidal cell s should ... Intelligence Meets Neuroscience By Bob Colwell, published in IEEE s Computer , January 2005 Above ... 01381247.pdf Machine Intelligence Meets Neuroscience full text for IEEE Explore s online subscribers ...&DOI 10.1109 MC.2005.24 Machine Intelligence Meets Neuroscience citation only http future.iftf.org ...?id 112204B On Intelligence, People and Computers Arnold Kling, Tech Central Station, 22 November ... Intelligence A review by Ben Goertzel 7 Oct 2004 Category 2004 books Category Psychology books Category Artificial intelligence publications ru ... more details
other uses Human intelligenceIntelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities ... , plan ning, and problem solving . Intelligence is most widely studied in humans, but has also been observed in animals and plants. Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines or the simulation of intelligence in machines. Numerous definitions of and Hypothesis hypotheses about intelligence have been proposed since before the twentieth century, with no consensus reached by scholars. Within the discipline of psychology, various approaches to human intelligence have been adopted ... 0003 066X.51.2.77 Article in Wikipedia Intelligence Knowns and Unknowns ref TOC limit limit 3 History of the term Main Nous Intelligence derives from the Latin verb wikt intelligere which derives from ... of the Active Intellect also known as the Active Intelligence . This entire approach ... version . ref The term intelligence has therefore become less common in English language philosophy ... psychology. Definitions How to define intelligence is controversial. Groups of scientists have stated the following ol li from Mainstream Science on Intelligence 1994 , an editorial statement by fifty ... Gottfredson, L.S. year 1997 title Foreword to intelligence and social policy journal Intelligence ... reprints 1997specialissue.pdf format pdf accessdate 2008 03 18 ref li li from Intelligence Knowns ... on different occasions, in different domains, as judged by different criteria. Concepts of intelligence ... asked to define intelligence, they gave two dozen, somewhat different, definitions. ref name Neisser1998 ..., S.J. Halpern, D.F. Loehlin, J.C. Perloff, R. Sternberg, R.J. Others, year 1998 title Intelligence ... 9780876308707 url http books.google.com ?id gLWnmVbKdLwC&pg PA95&dq Intelligence Knowns and unknowns ..., R.J. Urbina, S. year 1996 title Intelligence knowns and unknowns journal American Psychologist volume ... defined intelligence as class wikitable width 140 Researcher Quotation Alfred Binet Judgment, otherwise ... more details
Infobox musical artist See Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians name The Intelligence image TheIntelligenceatSalaRossaMontreal ctober2009.JPG alt caption L R Lars Finberg guitar, vocals ,Beren Ekine Huet drums , Susanna Welbourne keyboard image size background group or band alias origin Seattle Seattle, Washington , United States USA genre Post punk , garage punk years active 1999 present label Dragnet Records br In the Red Records br Dirtnap Records br S S Records br Plastic Idol Records associated acts A Frames band A Frames br Eat Skull br Factums br Children s Hospital br The Dipers br The Popular Shapes br Unnatural Helpers website http www.intheredrecords.com pages intelligence.html current ... br Matthew Ford musician Matthew Ford The Intelligence is a Low fidelity lo fi post punk rock band from Seattle , founded by Lars Finberg, drummer of the A Frames band A Frames . Biography The Intelligence ... guitarist Erin Sullivan, and bassist Min Yee the Dipers, Unnatural Helpers . A Frames and the Intelligence ... recorded with Woodhouse & Soriano in early 2005. The Intelligence The Intelligence s first release ..., The Intelligence got signed to In the Red Records . On In the Red their second album was released ... opened two shows for The Fall band The Fall at CMJ. The Intelligence first toured in Europe ... 10 06 ref The current as of 2009 line up of the Intelligence consists of Finberg and his girlfriend ... title CMA Interview The Intelligence publisher Compost Modern Art date 2009 06 04 accessdate 2009 10 07 ref November 23, 2009 it was announced on the band s myspace page that The Intelligence had completed ... announced that Woodhouse had joined The Intelligence as a second guitarist. ref cite web ... http www.myspace.com theworldisadrag The Intelligence on myspace http www.intheredrecords.com pages ..., mp3 download DEFAULTSORT Intelligence, The Category American noise rock music groups Category American ... Musical groups established in 1999 fr The Intelligence nl The Intelligence ... more details
Activity recognition aims to recognize the actions and goals of one or more agents from a series of observations ... of study such as medicine, human computer interaction, or sociology. To understand activity recognition ... have been studied by researchers in activity recognition examples include assisting the sick ... to its many faceted nature, different fields may refer to activity recognition as plan recognition ... services. Types of activity recognition Sensor based, single user activity recognition Sensor based activity recognition integrates the emerging area of sensor networks with novel data mining and machine ... Borriello, et al. The Mobile Sensing Platform An Embedded System for Activity Recognition. Appears in the IEEE Pervasive Magazine Special Issue on Activity Based Computing, April 2008. ref ref Nishkam Ravi, Nikhil Dandekar, Preetham Mysore, Michael Littman. Activity Recognition from Accelerometer Data. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence ... power to enable physical activity recognition to provide an estimation of the energy consumption during everyday life. Sensor based activity recognition researchers believe that by empowering ubiquitous ... will be better suited to act on our behalf. Levels of sensor based activity recognition Sensor based activity recognition is a challenging task due to the inherent noisy nature of the input ... goal or subgoals of an agent from the activity sequences through a mixture of logical and statistical reasoning. Scientific conferences where activity recognition work from wearable and environmental ... ubicomp2011 UbiComp . Sensor based, multi user activity recognition Recognizing activities for multiple ... such as acceleration sensors were used for identifying group activity patterns during office scenarios ... from this work. Vision based activity recognition It is a very important and challenging problem ... technique employed is computer vision. Vision based activity recognition has found many applications ... more details
Evoked activity is brain activity that is the result of a task, sensory input or motor output. It is opposed to spontaneous activity spontaneous brain activity during the absence of any explicit task. Most experimental studies in neuroscience investigate brain functioning by administering a task or stimulus and measure the resulting changes in neuronal activity and behavior. In EEG research, evoked activity or evoked response evoked responses specifically refers to activity that is phase locked to the stimulus onset and is opposed to induced activity , which is a stimulus related change in the amplitude of neural oscillations oscillatory activity . See also spontaneous activity evoked potential ongoing brain activity evoked field Category Neuroscience ... more details
Empire Activity was the name of a number of ships. SS Empire Activity , a cargo ship built in 1919 as the SS http www.mariners l.co.uk EmpireA.html Belgian and later in service as the Amelia Lauro , Seized at Immingham during World War Two and renamed Empire Activity , sunk by U 96 off Newfoundland in 1943 MV Empire Activity , a refrigerated cargo ship laid down in 1940 as MV Telemachus , requisitoned as Empire Activity and converted to an escort carrier as HMS Activity , converted to merchant vessel MV Breconshire in 1947 and scrapped in 1967 Disambig shipindex ... more details
Unreferenced date August 2008 An activity in Unified Modeling Language UML is a major task that must take place in order to fulfill an operation contract. Activities can be represented in activity diagram s An activity can represent the invocation of an operation, a step in a business process , or an entire business process. Activities can be decomposed into subactivities, until at the bottom where we find atomic actions . The underlying conception of an activity has changed between UML 1.5 and UML 2.0. In UML 2.0 an activity is no longer based on the state chart rather it is based on a Petri net like coordination mechanism. There the activity represents user defined behavior coordinating actions. Action in turn are pre defined UML offers for this a series of actions . uml stub UML DEFAULTSORT Activity Uml Category Unified Modeling Language de Aktivit t UML sq Aktiviteti UML ... more details
Play is essentially an activity which is enjoyed alone, though it can involve others, who perceive ... or child at heart. Play can consist of an amusing, pretend or imaginary activity alone or with another ... activity yet juveniles at play often display a transfixed seriousness and trance entrancing absorption ... and goal orientated it is often presented as a game. Play can also be seen as the activity ... characteristic of play, we might call it a free activity standing quite consciously outside ordinary life as being not serious but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly. It is an activity ... a separate and independent sphere of human activity is sometimes referred to as the magic ... as intelligence, suggesting further that play is the meta intelligence behind, together with, and changing, the various forms of intelligences people have. He argues that play intelligence is not a form of intelligence, it is intelligence in all its forms. He is known for his 3 dimensional models which demonstrate the principles of how intelligence and play function together. ref http www.playfoundation.com ... psychologists have begun to expound the phylogenetic relationship between higher intelligence ... more details
Image Activity conducting.svg thumb upright 2 UML 1.x Activity diagram for a guided brainstorming mental process process UML diagram types Activity diagrams are graphical representations of workflow s of stepwise ... Retrieved 20 July 2008. ref In the Unified Modeling Language , activity diagrams can be used to describe the business and operational step by step workflows of components in a system. An activity diagram shows the overall flow of control. Construction Activity diagrams are constructed from a limited ... techniques lack constructs for expressing concurrency. However, the join and split symbols in activity ... combined with decisions or loops. While in UML 1.x, activity diagrams were a specialized form of state diagrams, in UML 2.x, the activity diagrams were reformalized to be based on Petri net like semantics, increasing the scope of situations that can be modeled using activity diagrams. These changes cause many UML 1.x activity diagrams to be interpreted differently in UML 2.x Applications File MESI protocol activity diagram.png thumb right An activity Diagram showing MESI protocol in a 2 cores processor. In Systems Modeling Language SysML the activity diagram has been extended ... data flows. Alternatives In UML 1.x, an alternative to activity diagrams is the State diagram UML state ... of that activity being performed , and transitions represent the start or completion of activities. This mapping of activity diagram features to state diagram were formalized in UML 1.x, leaving activity ... behavior within a work flow. Despite the small advantages of using UML 1.x activity diagram over state .... Activity diagrams and state diagram had similar abilities to express concurrency, though the run ... the most important reason why state machines were more popular in UML 1.x over activity diagrams was that the tool vendors were slow to implement robust activity diagram capabilities. With UML 2.x, the foundation of activity diagram changed from being based on state machine semantics to now being ... more details
Locomotor activity LMA refers to the movement from place to place. In psychopharmacology , locomotor activity of lab animal s is often monitored to assess the behavioural effects of these drugs. Locomotor activity is useful and less robust than most behavioural tests such as operant conditioning and radial arm maze. It is often used in primary evaluations of drugs. External links http www.addictionscience.net ASNlma.htm Addiction Science Network pharma stub Category Locomotion ms Aktiviti lokomotor ... more details
Tort law An ultrahazardous activity in the common law of torts is one that is so inherently dangerous that a person engaged in such an activity can be held strictly liable for injuries caused to another person, even if the person engaged in the activity took every reasonable precaution to prevent others from being injured. In the Restatement of the Law 2d, Torts 2d, the term has been abandoned in favor of the phrase inherently dangerous activity. Categories of ultrahazardous activity There are several categories of activities which are commonly recognized as being ultrahazardous, and therefore subject those who engage in them to strict liability. These include Transportation, storage, and use of dynamite and other explosives Transportation, storage, and use of radioactive materials Transportation, storage, and use of certain hazardous chemicals Keeping of wildlife wild animals i.e. animals that are not normally domesticated in that area Note that in this context domesticated does not merely refer to animals that are commonly bred and raised in captivity, such as alligator s. Keeping of domesticated animals that have a known propensity for dangerous behavior e.g., keeping a dog that has attacked people before ref The injury, however, must arise from what makes the animal dangerous. See Alwin v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. , 610 N.W.2d 218 Wis. Ct. App. 2000 . ref A person who ... engaged in the activity is barred from suing under a strict liability theory. Instead, they must ... established in Rylands v Fletcher . Determining if an activity is ultrahazardous Factors determining an activity is ultrahazardous ref See, e.g. Langan v. Velicopter 1977 ref The relative possibility of harm. The level of seriousness of potential harm. The level of activity ndash most persons ... with the utmost care. Whether the risk of the activity outweighs its social value. Inappropriateness of the activity in the area it is commenced. References reflist Category Tort law law term stub ko ... more details
An activity stream is a list of recent activities performed by an individual, typically on a single website . For example, Facebook s Facebook features News Feed News Feed is an activity stream. Since the introduction of the News Feed on September 6, 2006, ref http techcrunch.com 2006 09 06 facebook users revolt facebook replies Facebook Users Revolt, Facebook Replies . TechCrunch. Retrieved July 11, 2010. ref other major websites have introduced similar implementations for their own users. Since the proliferation of the activity stream on websites, there have been calls to standardize the format so that websites could interact with a stream provided by another website. The Activity Streams format Activity Streams project, for example, is an effort to develop an activity stream protocol computing protocol to syndicate activities across social Web applications. ref http activitystrea.ms schema 1.0 activity schema 01.html Atom Activity Base Schema Draft . Activity Streams. Retrieved July 11, 2010. ref Several major websites with activity stream implementations have already opened up their activity streams to developers to use, including Facebook and MySpace . ref name facebook opens ref name myspace opens Examples Facebook s Facebook features News Feed News Feed ref name facebook opens http www.computerworld.com s article 9132198 Facebook opens up activity stream to external developers Facebook opens up activity stream to external developers . Computer World . Retrieved July 11 ... opens activity stream to external developers.html MySpace Opens Activity Stream to External Developers ... cloud 2010 06 salesforcecom has facebook in.php Salesforce.com Heralds The Activity ... TeamPage Release 5.0 adds activity streams to Enterprise 2.0 social software platform ref http traction.tractionsoftware.com ... 15, 2010. ref Ektron CMS400.NET Release 8.0 adds activity streams to its social software suite ref ... ref http foragr.com Foragr Activity Stream unifies Facebook likes, Twitter retweets, Disqus comments ... more details
For the psychosocial theory of aging, see Activity theory aging Activity theory AT is a psychological .... ref cite book last1 Bedny first1 Gregory last2 Meister first2 David title The Russian Theory of Activity ... Psychology Press isbn 978 0 8058 1771 3 ref Activity theory is particularly useful as a lens ... a built in language and rhetoric. The lens of activity theory provides a number of constructs ... forms of mental processes manifested in constructs whether physical or psychological. Activity Theory ..., as well as the transformation or development that results from the interaction. The history of activity theory The origins of activity theory can be traced to several sources, which have subsequently ... founded cultural historical psychology, an important strand in the activity approach Leont ev, one of the principal founders of activity theory, both continued, and reacted against, Vygotsky s work. Leont ev s formulation of general activity theory is currently the most influential in post Soviet developments ... research. The second major line of development within activity theory involves scientists, such as P ... basis of activity its foundation is associated with the Soviet philosopher of psychology ... the work on systemic structural activity theory being carried out by G. Z. Bedny and his associates ... have an active relation to reality, which he called activity . In particular, the behaviour of higher ..., these actions only make sense in a social context of a shared work activity. This led him to a distinction .... Leont ev also argued that the activity in which a person is involved is reflected in their mental activity, that is as he puts it material reality is presented to consciousness, but only in its vital meaning or significance. Developments in activity theory Activity theory is dynamic. It can be used ... and Consciousness Activity Theory and Human computer Interaction. pp 1 20. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ISBN 0 262 14058 6 ref Scandinavian activity theory This major school of thought seeks to integrate ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Image 1911 Britannica Anatomy Muscular.png thumb right 350px Features of the human activity system Left image Serratus magnus , Deltoid , Biceps , Poupart s ligament , Patella , T.P. Tranpyloric plane , S.C. Subcostal plane , I.T. Intertubercular plane . Right image Dimple over posterior superior spine of Ilium bone ilium , Lower angle of scapula , External head of triceps , Depression over great trochanter Popliteal space , Gastrocnemius . The scale between the figures represents head lengths. The Activity system is the part of human anatomy responsible for movement with muscle s and the human skeleton structural support and protection with bone s, cartilage , ligament s, and tendon s . The term activity system is also used as a short hand for Soft systems methodology Human activity system human activity system . ref Beynon Davies, P. 2009 . Business Information Systems. Palgrave, Basingstoke ref This is a term used within Peter Checkland s Soft Systems Methodology to refer to a logical collection of activities designed to fulfill some purpose. ref Checkland, P.B. 1981 1998 Systems Thinking, Systems Practice, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester ref See also Human anatomy References reflist 1911 DEFAULTSORT Activity System Category Human anatomy anatomy stub ... more details
Star activity is a relaxation or alteration of the specificity of restriction enzyme mediated cleavage of DNA that can occur under reaction conditions that differ significantly from those optimum for the enzyme. The result is typically cleavage at non canonical recognition site, or sometimes complete loss of specificity. Differences which can lead to star activity include low ionic strength , high pH , and high 5 v v glycerol concentrations ref Robinson CR and Sliger SG 1993 Molecular Recognition Mediated by Bound Water A Mechanism for Star Activity of the Restriction Endonuclease EcoRI. Journal of Molecular Biology. 234 302 306. ref . The latter condition is of particular practical interest, since commercial restriction enzymes are usually supplied in a Buffer solution buffer containing a substantial amount of glycerol 50 v v is typical , meaning insufficient dilution of the enzyme solution can cause star activity this problem most often arises during double or multiple digests. Star activity can happen because of presence of Mg sup 2 sup , as is seen in HindIII, for example. External links http www.neb.com nebecomm tech reference restriction enzymes star activity.asp Star Activity New England Biolabs http www.fermentas.com techinfo re restrstaract.htm Star Activity Relaxation of Specificity Fermentas http bio.takara.co.jp BIO EN catalog d.asp?C ID C0008 Star activity of restriction enzymes a detailed list from TaKaRa http www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov articlerender.fcgi?artid 2396408 The Fidelity Index provides a systematic quantitation of star activity of DNA restriction endonucleases References Reflist enzyme stub Category Restriction enzymes Category DNA de Star Aktivit t pl Aktywno star ... more details
incomplete date October 2010 In pharmacology , biological activity or pharmacological activity describes the beneficial or adverse effects of a drug on organism living matter . When a drug is a complex chemical mixture, this activity is exerted by the substance s active ingredient or pharmacophore but can be modified by the other constituents. Activity is generally dose biochemistry dosage dependent and it is not uncommon to have effects ranging from beneficial to adverse for one substance when going from low to high doses. Activity depends critically on fulfillment of the ADME criteria. clarify date October 2010 Whereas a material is considered bioactive if it has interaction with or effect on any cell biology cell tissue in the human body , pharmacological activity is usually taken to describe beneficial effects, i.e. the effects of drug candidate s. The main kind of biological activity is a substance s toxicity . Dubious date November 2010 In the study of biomineralisation , bioactivity is often meant as the formation of calcium phosphate deposits on the surface of objects placed in simulated body fluid , a buffer solution with ion content similar to blood . See also Lipinski s Rule of Five , describing molecular properties of drugs QSAR , quantitative structure activity relationship Chemical property Molecular property Physical property Chemical structure References unreferenced date December 2009 DEFAULTSORT Biological Activity Category Pharmacodynamics Pharma stub ca Activitat biol gica de Biologische Aktivit t es Actividad biol gica ja pl Aktywno biologiczna pt Atividade biol gica ... more details
No footnotes date May 2011 Activity centre is a term used in urban planning and Urban design design for a mixed use urban area where there is a concentration of commercial and other land uses. For example, the central business district s of cities CBD are also known as Central Activities Districts CAD also known as Downtown in North America or Central Activities Zone in the United Kingdom in recognition of the fact that commercial functions are not the only things that do or should occur there. The term activity centre can also be used to designate an area for mixed use development, whatever its current land use happens to be. Activity centres can vary greatly in size from the central districts of large cities to regional commercial areas to neighbourhood shopping centres and strips. They can also refer to specialised agglomerations of activities such as urban university campuses or research institutes. They are an important concept in urban planning for Transit oriented development or TOD , which seeks to intensify landuses around public transport nodes to facilitate greater sustainability in the way people and goods move around cities. Activity centres are a key component of contemporary strategic planning for large dispersed cities like those in Australia, Canada, the USA and New Zealand. Examples of such planning include the Melbourne 2030 strategy for Melbourne and the City of Cities metropolitan strategy for Sydney . See also New Urbanism Transit oriented development References ... 8fc6e140ef55837cca256c8c00183cdc eafc71b420ab2725ca25701300048fee?OpenDocument Media release on activity ... plans 05 activity.html Melbourne 2030 Activity centres http www.dse.vic.gov.au dse nrenpl.nsf childdocs FD2B253F910D1C05CA256D1900232D0D?open Activity centre design guidelines http www.buildingwa.wa.gov.au index.cfm?event roadRailMurdochActivityCentre Western Australian activity centre http www.metrostrategy.nsw.gov.au ... Strategy DEFAULTSORT Activity centre Category Urban studies and planning Category Urban design Category ... more details
Infobox software name Activity Monitor logo Image ActivityMonitor.png 64px Activity Monitor screenshot Image Activity Monitor Screenshot.png 220px caption developer Apple Computer latest release version 10.7 710 latest release date October 12, 2011 operating system Mac OS X genre Utility license Proprietary software Proprietary website http www.apple.com macosx Mac OS X Website Activity Monitor is a task manager , a utility for performing different tasks to a computer process es, in the Mac OS X operating system . Some of its functions include Quitting or killing a computer process Viewing the computer s CPU load computing load Checking the amount of random access memory in use or Disk swapping swapped out Checking the amount of hard disk read ins and write outs Checking the capacity of storage devices Monitoring the computer s network usage Inspecting running computer processes Viewing a process identifier number Viewing information about a particular process Prior to Mac OS X v10.3 , the Activity Monitor was named the Process Viewer. Citation needed date March 2011 See also Activity Monitor is the Mac OS X counterpart of Microsoft s Windows Task Manager for Microsoft Windows Windows . However, some aspects of quitting stalled applications are divided between Apple Menu Force Quit and Activity Monitor. External links http theprimepixel.com list of mac osx common processes List of common processes on Mac OS X Mac OS X Category Apple Inc. software Category Mac OS X it Monitoraggio Attivit uk Activity Monitor zh ... more details
Refimprove date September 2010 An activity book is a type of book , generally aimed at children , which contains interactive content such as game games , puzzles , quiz zes, pictures to colour and other elements which involve writing or drawing in the book itself. The book may, or may not, have a loose narrative or contain other non interactive elements structured around the interactive elements. Activity books may be made for entertainment , education or a mixture of both. Specific types of activity book include colouring book s and puzzle book s. A book is normally referred to as an activity book if it combines a variety of interactive elements and does not fall neatly into one of these more specific categories. Examples Where s Wally? The Where s Wally series of books known as Where s Waldo in the USA by Martin Handford consists of both puzzle books, where the reader must search for characters hidden in pictures, and activity books such as Where s Waldo? The Ultimate Fun Book , which include a wider range of games and activities as well as the normal puzzles. Horrible Histories The Horrible Histories series by Terry Deary, and its spin offs, include a number of educational activity books ref http www5.scholastic.co.uk zone book horr histories activity.htm Scholastic Children s Books Horrible Histories ref . Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do It Yourself Book by Jeff Kinney is an activity book which contains space for readers to keep a written or drawn diary or Diary journal as well Wimpy Kid themedas puzzles and cartoons. References refimprove article date December 2009 Reflist DEFAULTSORT Activity Book Category Book terminology book stub ... more details
In chemical thermodynamics , activity symbol a is a measure of the effective concentration of a species in a mixture, meaning that the species chemical potential depends on the activity of a real solution in the same way that it would depend on concentration for an ideal solution . By convention, activity ... of standard state for the species. The activity of pure substances in condensed phases solid or liquids is normally taken as Unity mathematics unity the number 1 . Activity depends on temperature, pressure ... is usually referred to as fugacity . The difference between activity and other measures of composition ... or to repel each other. The activity of an ion is particularly influenced by its surroundings ... where the activity and the concentration are significantly different and, as such, it is not valid ... this point In a solution of potassium hydrogen iodate at 0.02 molar concentration M the activity ... ionic strength 0.1 M the activity coefficient approaches unity, this coefficient can actually ... Definition The activity of a species i , denoted a sub i sub , is defined ref name GoldBook GoldBookRef title activity relative activity , a file A00115 ref ref name GreenBook GreenBookRef2nd pages ... i mu i ominus RT ln a i math Hence the activity will depend on any factor that alters the chemical ... in a gravitational field. However the most common use of activity is to describe the variation in chemical potential with the composition of a mixture. The activity also depends on the choice ... conventional standard states which are usually used in different situations. Activity coefficient Main Activity coefficient The activity coefficient , which is also a dimensionless quantity, relates the activity to a measured amount fraction x sub i sub , molality b sub i sub or amount concentration ... concentration c sup s o s sup is necessary to ensure that both the activity and the activity coefficient are dimensionless, as is conventional. ref name GreenBook When the activity coefficient is close ... more details
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