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Environment (biophysical)
The biophysical environment is the combined modeling of the physical environment and the biological life forms within the environment, and includes all variables, parameters as well as conditions and modes inside the Earth's biosphere. The biophysical environment can be divided into two categories: the natural environment and the built environment, with some overlap between the two

Environmentalism
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements

Environments (album)
Environments is the first part in a series of planned releases by The Future Sound of London over 2007/2008 via digital download and then CD; released after years of speculation the series is like the long lost album of FSOL.-The album:

Envision
Envision means to conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine.Envision may also refer to:In business:* Envision EMI, LLC, a management company based in Virginia, USA

Envoy
Envoy may refer to:*an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary*a Special Envoy*a diplomat in general*Envoy , the British Vauxhall cars for Canadian market in 1960-'70*Envoy , a document reader and document file format

Envoy (title)
In diplomacy, an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary is, under the terms of the Congress of Vienna of 1815, a diplomat of the second class, ranking between an Ambassador and a Minister Resident.

Envoy (Wild Cards)
The Envoy is a fictional character from the Wild Cards anthology series and a member of The Four Aces, first appearing in the story "Witness" by Walter Jon Williams in the first book of the series, Wild Cards.-Character background:

Envy
Envy is best defined as a resentful emotion that "occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it."

Envy (album)
Envy is the debut studio album by American band Eve's Plum, released on August 31, 1993 on 550 Records. Before it was released, the debut single, "Blue" was promoted on MTV, appearing on an episode of Beavis and Butthead. However, the single and album failed to chart. Second Single Die Like Someone was released the following year and also failed to chart

Envy (Ambitious Lovers album)
Envy is the first official release by Ambitious Lovers. The album picks up where DNA left off.- Track listing :#"Cross Your Legs" #"Trouble Maker" #"Pagode Americano"

Envy (song)
"Envy" is the seventeenth single release by Northern Irish band Ash. The song was one of two new songs on their compilation album Intergalactic Sonic 7″s released in September 2002. The single itself reached number 21 on the UK singles chart when released in August 2002

Enzootic
Enzootic is the non-human equivalent of endemic and means, in a broad sense, "belonging to" or "native to", "characteristic of", or "prevalent in" a particular geography, race, field, area, or environment; native to an area or scope.

Enzyme
Enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process, called substrates, are converted into different molecules, called products. Almost all chemical reactions in a biological cell need enzymes in order to occur at rates sufficient for life

Eocene
The Eocene Epoch, lasting from about 56 to 34 million years ago , is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Palaeocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch. The start of the Eocene is marked by the emergence of the first modern mammals

EOH (disambiguation)
EOH may refer to* Olaya Herrera Airport, an airport in Colombia which has the IATA code EOH* Excise Overhead Handling, a term In US automotive sales

Eolianite
Eolianite or aeolianite is any rock formed by the lithification of sediment deposited by aeolian processes; that is, the wind. In common use, however, the term refers specifically to the most common form of eolianite: coastal limestone consisting of carbonate sediment of shallow marine biogenic origin, formed into coastal dunes by the wind, and subsequently lithified

Eolith
An eolith is a chipped flint nodule. Eoliths were once thought to have been artifacts, the earliest stone tools, but are now believed to be naturally produced by geological processes such as glaciation.

Eolith (company)
Eolith was a South Korean based company. They developed The King of Fighters 2001 and 2002 after SNK was bankrupted. They also developed Double Dragon EX for mobile phones. Their last title released was Chaos Breaker, for Taito.

Eon
-Science:* Aeon, a very long time* Eon , a collective problem solving project* Eon Mountain, in Canada* A measure of time in the geologic time scale- Fiction :* Eon , by Greg Bear

Eon (musician)
Ian Loveday, better-known as Eon was a rave pioneer.His tracks made their way to early 1990s pirate radio stations in London, and then out on vinyl through small labels like BAAD and Vinyl Solution

Eon (novel)
Eon is a 1985 science fiction novel by Greg Bear. It is the first story written in The Way fictional universe.Events in Eon take place in 2005, when the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. are on the verge of nuclear war. In that tense political climate, a 290 km asteroid appears within the solar system following an unusual supernova, and moves into a highly eccentric Near-Earth orbit

EON (radio)
Enhanced Other Networks is a radio system used to deliver traffic information to enabled devices. It is a component of the European Radio Data System .

Eon (role-playing game)
Eon is a fantasy role-playing game set in the fictitious world of Mundana. It's developed and published by Swedish company Neogames. Eon is the Swedish word for Aeon.-History:

Eons
Eons.com is a social networking site for baby boomers, launched by Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor in July 2006. The site provides games, photo and video sharing, groups, how-to lists, interviews, links and information on health, relationships, fitness, debt, retirement and insurance.Eons is backed by venture capital financing from General Catalyst Partners, Sequoia Capital, Charles

Eos (genus)
Eos is a genus of parrots belonging to the Lories and lorikeets. There are six species which are all endemic to islands of eastern Indonesia, most within very restricted ranges. They have predominantly red plumage with blue, purple or black markings. Males and females are similar in appearance.Their habitats include forest, coconut plantations and mangroves

Eos (yacht)
The Eos is a three-masted Bermuda rigged schooner. The ship is one of the largest private sailing yachts in the world, and as of 2009 was owned by movie and media billionaire Barry Diller, husband of fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg. According to a 2007 article in Harper's Bazaar, Eos features a figurehead of von Fürstenberg sculpted by Anh Duong

EP (Guns N' Roses EP)
The second EP by Guns N' Roses, released after Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide, was released in Japan only. It is known as Live from the Jungle, named so because part of the large red text on the album's obi strip reads "raibu furomu za janguru", meaning "live from the jungle". This is a reference to the song "Welcome to the Jungle", even though the song itself doesn't appear on the EP

EP (Mogwai EP)
EP is an EP by Scottish post-rock group Mogwai, released in various countries in 1999.-Overview:EP is Mogwai's third EP. It features four tracks, "Stanley Kubrick" , "Christmas Song", "Burn Girl Prom Queen", and "Rage:Man" EP is an EP by Scottish post-rock group Mogwai, released in various countries in 1999.-Overview:EP is Mogwai's third EP. It features four tracks, "Stanley Kubrick" (recorded at Sub Station Studio in Cowdenbeath, Scotland and produced by Michael Brennan Jr., assisted by Kevin Lynch), "Christmas Song", "Burn Girl Prom Queen", and "Rage:Man" EP is an EP by Scottish post-rock group Mogwai, released in various countries in 1999.-Overview:EP is Mogwai's third EP. It features four tracks, "Stanley Kubrick" (recorded at Sub Station Studio in Cowdenbeath, Scotland and produced by Michael Brennan Jr., assisted by Kevin Lynch), "Christmas Song", "Burn Girl Prom Queen", and "Rage:Man" (all recorded at CaVa Studios in

Epe (disambiguation)
Epe or EPE may refer to:Places:* Epe, the Netherlands* Epe, Nigeria* Epe, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyOther:* Elvis Presley Enterprises, a corporate entity created by the "Elvis Presley Trust"

Epenthesis
In phonology, epenthesis is the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially to the interior of a word. Epenthesis may be divided into two types: excrescence, for the addition of a consonant, and anaptyxis for the addition of a vowel.

EPER
EPER may refer to:* European Pollutant Emission Register* European Political Economy Review* Fiat ePER - a spare parts catalogue of the Fiat group manufacturers

Ephah
Ephah was one of Midian's five sons as listed in the Hebrew Bible. The son of Abraham, Midian's five sons were Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah

Ephebos (disambiguation)
Greek ephebos εφηβος , anglicised as ephebe , or Latinate ephebus is the term for an adolescent male.It may also refer to:*Ephebus ;

Ephebus (personal name)
As well as being a general epithet, Ephebus often occurs as an individual name, as in the cases of:*Ephebus, a martyr from Terni, a city in central Italy

Ephemera
Ephemera are transitory written and printed matter not intended to be retained or preserved. The word derives from the Greek, meaning things lasting no more than a day. Some collectible ephemera are advertising trade cards, airsickness bags, bookmarks, catalogues, greeting cards, letters, pamphlets, postcards, posters, prospectuses, stock certificates, tickets and zines

Ephemera (genus)
Ephemera is a genus of mayfly in family Ephemeridae. It contains the following species:*Ephemera danica*Ephemera glaucops*Ephemera hellenica*Ephemera lineata*Ephemera parnassiana*Ephemera vulgata*Ephemera zettana

Ephemeral
Ephemeral things are transitory, existing only briefly. Typically the term is used to describe objects found in nature, although it can describe a wide range of things.

Ephemeral
Ephemeral things are transitory, existing only briefly. Typically the term is used to describe objects found in nature, although it can describe a wide range of things.

Ephemeron
In computer science, finalization occurs when a garbage collector informs an application that an object is "almost collectable." It is used to help an application maintain its invariants. To make finalization more useful, "almost collectable" is defined in terms of a new class of objects, called ephemerons

Epic
-Comics:* Epic Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics* Epic Illustrated, a 1980s anthology series published by Marvel Comics-Gaming:* Epic , a 1992 computer game* Epic , a series of wargames

EPIC
-Technology:* Explicitly parallel instruction computing, a design philosophy based on VLIW used in Itanium CPUs* EPIC , Executive-Process/Interactive Control, for artificial intelligence studies* Electromagnetic Personal Interdiction Control

EPIC (form factor)
Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing is a computer form factor standard put forth by a combined effort from , , , Micro/sys, and .EPIC is a new standard that solves the need for an industrial-quality SBC

Epic (skyscraper)
Epic Tower is an urban residential skyscraper in Downtown Miami, Florida, United States. Epic is 500 ft tall and has 48 floors. The tower is located on the north bank of the Miami River in Downtown's Central Business District. It is bordered by Biscayne Boulevard Way on the west, Southeast 2nd Street to the north, the Miami River to the south, and Southeast 5th Avenue to the east

Epicene
Epicene is an adjective for loss of gender distinction, often specific loss of masculinity. It includes:* effeminacy — a man with characteristics that are traditionally feminine

Epicenter
The epicenter or epicentre is the point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or underground explosion originates

Epicenter (book)
Epicenter is a 2006 non-fiction Christian commentary by political column poster Joel C. Rosenberg. It is about present day Middle East and the world, and how recent events are beginning to bring to life prophecies in the Book of Ezekiel.

Epicureanism
Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of Epicurus, founded around 307 BC. Epicurus was an atomic materialist, following in the steps of Democritus. His materialism led him to a general attack on superstition and divine intervention. Following Aristippus—about whom very little is known—Epicurus believed that pleasure is the greatest good

Epicycloid
In geometry, an epicycloid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle — called an epicycle — which rolls without slipping around a fixed circle

Epidemic
In epidemiology, an epidemic , occurs when new cases of a certain disease, in a given human population, and during a given period, substantially exceed what is expected based on recent experience

Epidemic (disambiguation)
An epidemic is a disease that spreads rapidly.Epidemic may also refer to:* Epidemic , a 1987 film* Epidemic , a San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal band from the late 1980s and early 1990s.* Epidemic Records

Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study of health-event, health-characteristic, or health-determinant patterns in a population. It is the cornerstone method of public health research, and helps inform policy decisions and evidence-based medicine by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive medicine

Epidemiology (journal)
EPIDEMIOLOGY is a bi-monthly, peer-reviewed journal for epidemiologic research, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.The journal publishes original research from all fields of epidemiology, as well as review articles, meta-analyses, novel hypotheses, descriptions and applications of new methods and discussions of research theory and public health policy

Epidermis
Epidermis may refer to:* Epidermis , in plants, the outermost layer of cells covering the leaves and young parts of a plant* Epidermis , the outermost layer of the skin of a human

Epididymis
The epididymis is part of the male reproductive system and is present in all male amniotes. It is a narrow, tightly-coiled tube connecting the efferent ducts from the rear of each testicle to its vas deferens. A similar, but probably non-homologous, structure is found in cartilaginous fishes.-Regions:The epididymis can be divided into three main regions* The head

Epidural
The term epidural is often short for epidural analgesia, a form of regional analgesia involving injection of drugs through a catheter placed into the epidural space

Epidural (disambiguation)
The term epidural is an adjective referring to the epidural space, part of the spinal canal in mammals.It is commonly used as a shorthand for epidural anaesthesia or epidural analgesia.However, it may also refer to:Anatomy related* Epidural space

Epifania
Epifania is a cartoon or full-scale drawing in black chalk by Michelangelo, produced in Rome around 1550–1553. It is 2.32 metres tall by 1.65 m wide, and is made up of 26 sheets of paper.

Epigenesis
Epigenesis may refer to:* Epigenesis , describes morphogenesis and development of an organism* By analogy, a philosophical and theological concept, part of the concept of spiritual evolution* The Epigenesis, a 2010 album by Melechesh

Epigenesis (biology)
In biology, epigenesis has at least two distinct meanings:* the unfolding development in an organism, and in particular the development of a plant or animal from an egg or spore through a sequence of steps in which cells differentiate and organs form;

Epiglottis
The epiglottis is a flap that is made of elastic cartilage tissue covered with a mucous membrane, attached to the entrance of the larynx. It projects obliquely upwards behind the tongue and the hyoid bone, pointing dorsally. The term, like tonsils, is often incorrectly used to refer to the uvula

Epigram
An epigram is a brief, interesting, usually memorable and sometimes surprising statement. Derived from the epigramma "inscription" from ἐπιγράφειν epigraphein "to write on inscribe", this literary device has been employed for over two millennia.

Epigram (disambiguation)
An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist, or a concise and witty statement.Epigram may also refer to:* Epigram , a functional programming language with dependent types

EPIK
EPIK is affiliated with the Korean Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology Development and is operated by the National Institute for International Education

EPilation
EPilation is the first full-length release from Brisbane musician Tara Simmons. Although a full-length, EPilation contains no new material and is a compilation of Tara's first two EPs Pendulum and All The Amendments

Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain.About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, and nearly two out of every three new cases are discovered in developing

Epilog (album)
Epilog was the second and last studio album fromSwedish progressive rock group Änglagård. A darkerand completely instrumental work, it was supposed to be the finalchapter of Änglagård, hence the name. -Availability:

Epilogue
An epilogue, epilog or afterword is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or drama, usually used to bring closure to the work

Epilogue (album)
Epilogue is the second album by Finnish Gothic-Doom Metal band To/Die/For.-Track listing:# Crimson Twins - 3:53# Vale Of Tears - 3:46# Hollow Heart - 3:53# Veiled - 3:07# The Unknown - 4:26# Frail Without You - 3:32# In Solitude - 4:56

Epilogue (disambiguation)
An epilogue or epilog is a piece of writing usually used to bring closure to a work of literature or drama.Epilogue or epilog may also refer to:In Music:* Epilog , album by progressive rock band Änglagård

Epilogue (Graveland album)
Epilogue is the third demo album by the black metal band Graveland. It was originally released on cassette format in 1993 on Witching Hour Productions, but was then later released on CD on No Colours Records in 2008.-Track listing:#Intro - 1:55