Fire Refugia: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter for Global Change?

Type I and Type II errors: what are they and why do they matter?

When examining the characteristics of organisms, there are two basic categories of organismsliving and non-living. There are seven characteristics that exist to classify an organism as a living thing. Living organisms must be made of cells, reproduce, use energy, grow and develop, respond to stimuli, adapt to their environment, and maintain homeostasis. Non-living organisms, then, lack one or m...

Open Educational Resources: What they are and why do they matter

Intangible Values of Protected Areas : What Are They ? Why Do They Matter ?

tangible values are, the reasons why people care deeply about protected areas ultimately have little or nothing to do with them. There is another arena of values, values whose benefits are difficult or impossible to quantify, but which lie at the heart of the protective impulse that drives the modern conservation movement. These intangible values (also referred to as nonmaterial values) include...

Enterprise Knowledge Portals: What They Are and What They Do

The Enterprise is a continuous, dynamic “swirl” of problem-solving knowledgerelated Interactions from which knowledge is produced and integrated with the business processes of the enterprise. For a given problem generated by a business process, it is useful to abstract from the swirl and to conceptualize an iteration of a knowledge life cycle encompassing knowledge processes targeted on solving...

Neo-Kraepelinian Divergences from Kraepelin; What Are They and Why They Matter