Biological interaction — Biological interactions are the effects organisms in a community have on one another. In the natural world no organism exists in absolute isolation, and thus every organism must interact with the environment and other organisms. An organism s… … Wikipedia
Biological psychiatry — Biological psychiatry, or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system. It is interdisciplinary in its approach and draws on sciences such as… … Wikipedia
Biological neural network — From Texture of the Nervous System of Man and the Vertebrates by Santiago Ramón y Cajal. The figure illustrates the diversity of neuronal morphologies in the auditory cortex. In neuroscience, a biological neural network describes a population of… … Wikipedia
Biological small-angle scattering — Small angle scattering is a fundamental method for structure analysis of materials, including biological materials. Small angle scattering allows one to study the structure of a variety of objects such as solutions of biological macromolecules,… … Wikipedia
biological engineering — bioengineering. [1965 70] * * * biological engineering noun 1. The provision of (electrical, electronic, etc) aids for bodily functions, eg artificial limbs and joints, hearing aids, etc (also bioengineering) 2. The engineering required in… … Useful english dictionary
biological reference points — Indicators or signposts against which the status of a stock can be judged. Two types are often used: based on fishing mortality and based on the sustainability of recruitment. Reference points can be either desirable targets (target reference… … Fisheries — dictionary
biological overfishing — fishing levels higher than those required for extracting the maximum sustainable yield of a resource and when recruitment starts to decrease statistically. Spawning potential and stock biomass is below safe levels … Dictionary of ichthyology
biological reference point — a fishing mortality rate or biomass that may provide acceptable protection against growth overfishing and/or recruitment overfishing for a particular stock. It is usually calculated from equilibrium yield per recruit curves, spawning stock… … Dictionary of ichthyology
Maximum sustainable yield — In population ecology and economics, maximum sustainable yield or MSY is, theoretically, the largest yield (or catch) that can be taken from a species stock over an indefinite period. Fundamental to the notion of sustainable harvest, the concept… … Wikipedia
Chemical Biological Incident Response Force — CBIRF insignia Active April 1, 1996 – present Country U … Wikipedia