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Enham Alamein
The village of Enham Alamein is a small rural community in the North of Hampshire, England. Etymology Enham This part of the name derives from an event that took place back in 1003 AD. At that time the village was just a collection of fields, possibly the site of a farm, on the outskirts of Andov..
Enhanced-definition television
EDTV redirects here. For the 1999 movie directed by Ron Howard, see EdTV. Enhanced-definition television, extended-definition television, or EDTV is a CEA marketing shorthand term for certain digital television (DTV) formats. EDTV generally refers to video with picture quality beyond what is broad..
Enhanced 911
Enhanced 911 or E911 service is a North American telephone network (NANP) feature of the 911 emergency-calling system that automatically associates a physical address with the calling party's telephone number. This is generally done by a form of reverse telephone directory that is supplied by t..
Enhanced biological phosphorus removal
Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is a wastewater treatment configuration applied to activated sludge systems. The common element in EBPR implementations is the presence of an anaerobic tank (nitrate and oxygen are absent) prior to the aeration tank. Under these conditions a group of ba..
Enhanced Cartridge Interface (ECI)
The Enhanced Cartridge Interface or (ECI) was a 14-pin extension to the cartridge slot on Atari 8-bit XE computers. This allowed external devices access to the system's data and bus lines. It was functionally compatible with the Parallel Bus Interface (PBI) on the XL computers. The ECI was found on..
Enhanced CD
Enhanced CD is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both compact disc and CD-ROM players. The primary data formats for Enhanced CD disks are mixed mode (Yellow Book/Red Book), CD-i, hidden trac..
Enhanced Chip Set
Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) is the name used for the enhanced version of the Amiga computer's original chipset (OCS). ECS was introduced in 1990 debuting in the Amiga 3000. Amigas produced from 1990 onwards featured a mix of OCS and ECS chips, or even a full Enhanced Chipset. In 1991 ECS was officially ..
Enhanced Compressed Wavelet File
ECW (Enhanced Compressed Wavelet File) is a bitmap image format designed for geospatial imagery. This is a lossy compression format. It has the following properties: embeds map projection informationfast compression (about 1.5 MB of compressed file per second on 1GHz processor)typical compression r..
Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
Mobile phone and datastandards 0G PTTMTSIMTSAMTS 0.5G Autotel/PALMARP 1G NMTAMPSHicapCDPDMobitexDataTac 2G GSMiDEND-AMPSIS-95/cdmaOnePDCCSDPHS 2.5G GPRSHSCSDWiDEN 2.75G CDMA2000 1xRTT/IS-2000EDGE 3G W-CDMA* UMTS* FOMA1xEV-DO/IS-856TD-SCDMAGAN/UMA 3.5G HSDPA 3.75G HSUPA 4G Frequency ban..
Enhanced Dr-DOS
Enhanced Dr-DOS is a patch kit to update release 7.01 of OpenDOS, a derivative of DR-DOS made available as source code by Caldera in 1996. The licence terms of this release were incompatible with most if not all existing open source licences, and not surprisingly Caldera did not get the developer r..
Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificate
Enhanced ETC/PTC – Known as double Equipment Trust Certificates (EETC), it is similar to a conventional ETC/PTC (see below) except that the security has been traunched into two or more classes of securities, each with different payment priorities and asset claims. These securities also usually hav..
Enhanced external counterpulsation
Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) is a procedure performed on individuals with ischemic cardiomyopathy in order to diminish the symptoms of their ischemia. In various studies, EECP has been shown to relieve angina1,2, improve exercise tolerance3, and decrease the degree of ischemia in a car..
Enhanced Full Rate
Enhanced Full Rate or EFR or GSM-EFR is a speech coding standard that was developed in order to improve the quite poor quality of GSM-Full Rate (FR) codec. Working at 12.2 kbit/s the EFR provides wirelike quality in any noise free and background noise conditions. The EFR 12.2 kbit/s speech coding st..
Enhanced Graphics Adapter
Screenshot from the EGA game Darnit, which uses the 640×350 graphics mode. The screenshot contains 14 colours, of which 5 are not in the CGA 16-colour palette. The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) is the IBM PC computer display standard specification located between CGA and VGA in terms of gr..
Enhanced Indexing
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Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is a Cisco proprietary routing protocol based on their original IGRP. EIGRP is a balanced hybrid IP routing protocol, with optimizations to minimize both the routing instability incurred after topology changes, as well as the use of bandwidth and pr..
Enhanced keyboard
The enhanced keyboard is a type of computer keyboard first made by IBM which has 101 or 102 keys. The major difference between this and previous XT/AT keyboards is the twelve function keys arranged in a line across the top of the keyboard as opposed to ten grouped on the left hand side of the keyboa..
Enhanced Messaging Service
Abbreviated as EMS, an application-level extension to Short Message Service (SMS) for cellular phones available on GSM, TDMA and CDMA networks. An EMS enabled mobile phone can send and receive messages that have special text formatting (such as bold or italic), animations, pictures, icons, sound e..
Enhanced Network Selection
Enhanced Network Selection (sometimes referred to as Enhanced Network Service, or simply ENS) extends GSM by making it possible for a GSM cellular device (e.g., handset) to be "homed" OTA (over the air) to different networks. This makes it possible for Cingular Wireless, while it is still operating ..
Enhanced oil recovery
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) is a technique for increasing the amount of oil that can be extracted from an oil field. Using EOR, 30-60 %, or more, of the reservoir's original oil can be extracted compared with 20-40 % using primary and secondary recovery. Enhanced oil recovery is also called improve..
Enhanced Performance Profiles
Enhanced Performance Profiles (EPP) is a memory technology for PC's delevoped by NVIDIA, primarily designed to make overclocking easier. It is a feature of the nForce 5 chipset. Corsair, along with NVIDIA, were the primary parties in developing the specification. EPP will likely be available only ..
Enhanced Permeability and Retention effect
The Enhanced Permability and Retention (EPR) effect is the property by which certain sizes of drug delivery carriers, typically liposomes, are able to penetrate deep into the leaky vasculature surrounding solid tumor cells. ..
Enhanced Programmable ircII Client
The Enhanced Programmable ircII Client (ircII-EPIC) is an IRC client for Unix systems descended from the ircII client. EPIC was forked from ircII around September 1994 by Jeremy Nelson, and is now maintained by EPIC Software Labs. EPIC was intended to, among other things, extend the scripting su..
Enhanced remake
In the video game subculture, an enhanced remake (also called updated classics) is an updated version of a video or computer game that was originally developed for a less advanced system. They are also known as "Super Mario All-Stars format", because an early occurrence of the idea was Super Mario ..
Enhanced service
Enhanced service is service offered over commercial carrier transmission facilities used in interstate communications, that employs computer processing applications that act on the format, content, code, protocol, or similar aspects of the subscriber's transmitted information; provides the subscribe..
Enhanced Small Disk Interface
Enhanced Small Disk Interface (ESDI) was a disc interface designed by Maxtor Corporation in the early 1980s to be a follow-on to the ST-506 interface. ESDI improved on ST-506 by moving certain parts that were traditionally kept on the controller (such as the data separator) into the drives themselve..
Enhanced Traction System (ETS)
Enhanced Traction System (ETS) The Enhanced Traction System is a traction control system used by General Motors in various cars such as the Grand Am. In some models, the driver has the option to disable this system by pushing a button marked "ETS". ..
Enhanced TV
Enhanced TV (ETV) is generally synonymous with interactive TV. It is used in particular in reference to "two-screen" TV + PC services. Generally users of these ETV services have their TV and computer in the same room, and navigate their web browser to a particular program-specific Web site that is ..
Enhanced Versatile Disc
-->The Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD) was announced on November 18 2003 by China's Xinhua news agency as a response to the popular DVD Video format and its licensing costs (which some considered excessive). It uses an optical storage medium in CD size (120 mm) that is physically a DVD disc with th..
Enhanced Virus Protection
Often abbreviated as EVP, Enhanced Virus Protection is a proprietary technology used by AMD which attempts to prevent malicious computer code from being executed without the user's knowledge or permission. EVP is a feature of CPUs, and it allows the operating system to designate certain areas of RA..
Enhancer
Enhancer can mean one of the following: In genetics, an Enhancer (genetics) is a short region of DNA that can be bound with proteinsExciter (effect), audio effect unit. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you t..
Enhancer (genetics)
In genetics, an enhancer is a short region of DNA that can be bound with proteins (namely, the trans-acting factors, much like a set of transcription factors) to enhance transcription levels of genes (hence the name) in a gene-cluster. An enhancer does not need to be particularly close to the gene..
Enhancesome
Enhancesome is a large nucleoprotein complex that assembles from transcription factors (activators and repressors) as they bind cooperatively to their multiple binding sites in an enhancer with the assistance of proteins that bend the DNA. Enhancesome assembly often requires small proteins that bin..
Enharmonic
In modern music, an enharmonic is a note which is the equivalent of some other note, but spelled differently. For example, in twelve-tone equal temperament (the modern system of musical tuning in the west), the notes C♯ (C sharp) and D♠(D flat) are enharmonically equivalent - that is, they are ..
Enharmonic genus
The enharmonic genus has historically been the most mysterious and controversial of the three Greek genera. Its characteristic interval is a major third, leaving the remainder of the tetrachord (the pyknon) to be divided by two intervals smaller than a semitone (approximately quarter tones). Because..
Enharmonic keyboard
An enharmonic keyboard is a musical keyboard based on an enharmonic scale. At the very least such keyboards will have 17 keys per octave, and enharmonically equivalent notes will have different pitches. A typical keyboard will have one key for, for instance, C sharp and D flat, but a basic 17 key en..
Enharmonic scale
An enharmonic scale is a musical scale in which there is no exact equivalence between a sharpened note and the flattened note it is enharmonically related to. As an example, F♯ and G♠are generally equivalent in a chromatic scale, but they would be distinguished in an enharmonic scale. Consider..
Enheduanna
Fertile Crescentmyth series Mesopotamian Levantine Arabian Mesopotamia Primordial beings The great gods Demigods & heroes Spirits & monsters Tales from Babylon 7 Gods who Decree 4 primary: AnuEnlilKiEnki 3 sky: IshtarSinSama Enheduanna (c. 2285-2250 B.C.E...
Enhydrina schistosa
Beaked seasnake (Enhydrina schistosa) is a species of sea snake. It is found in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf (off Oman), south of the Seychelles and Madagascar, the seas off South Asia (Pakistan, India and Bangladesh), Southeast Asia (Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, Vietnam), and Australi..
Enhydris
Enhydris is a genus of snakes that includes: Enhydris enhydrisEnhydris dussumieriEnhydris gyiiEnhydris plumbeaEnhydris sieboldi ..
Enhydris dussumieri
Dussumier's Water Snake Enhydris dussumieri is a species of snake found in India and Bangladesh. External links [EMBL reptile database] References Duméril, A. M. C., Bibron, G. & Duméril, A. H. A., 1854 Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septiÃ..
Enhydris enhydris
Rainbow Water Snake or Striped Water Snake Enhydris enhydris is a species of snake. Distribution: SE China Indonesia (Bangka, Belitung, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Sumatra, We); Bangladesh; Cambodia; C/E India; Laos; Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia, Borneo, Pulau Tioman; Myanmar (Burma); Ne..
Enhydris plumbea
Rice Paddy Snake Enhydris plumbea is a species of snake. Distribution: India, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia (Bali, Bangka, Belitung, Java, Kalimantan/Borneo, Sulawesi, Sumatra); Laos [see also HR 30 174] Pulau Bangka Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia, Pulau Tioman [HR 31 11..
Enhydris sieboldi
Siebold's Water Snake Enhydris sieboldi is a species of snake found in N/C India, Bangladesh, West Malaysia. External links [EMBL reptile database] References Schlegel, H. 1837 Essai sur la physionomie des serpens. Partie Généralxxviii +251 S. + Partie Descriptiv606 S. + xvi. La Hay..
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