Informing America, One Click at a Time
Amwoga Khalwale 
Sensory Neuron Sensory neurons also referred to as afferent neurons, are nerve cells within the nervous system responsible for converting external stimuli from an organism’s environment into internal electrical impulses. The sensory information travels along afferent nerve fibers in an afferent or sensory nerve to the brain through the spinal cord. The stimuli can come … Read more
InnoDB is a storage engine for the database management system MySQL. It provides the standard ACID-Compliant transaction features, along with foreign key support (Declarative Referential Integrity). InnoDB supports: Tablespaces Foreign Keys Full text search indexes Spatial operations Virtual columns Both SQL and XA transactions. MyISAM is the default storage engine for the MySQL relational database … Read more
Myopia also referred to as Nearsightedness is a common vision in which you can see objects near to you clearly, but objects farther away are blurry. It occurs when the shape of the eyes causes light rays to bend (refract) incorrectly, focusing image in front of the retina instead of at the center of retina. … Read more
Von Neumann and Harvard architectures are two fundamental computer architecture designs that have been influential in shaping the way computers process and store data. As computing technologies continue to advance, understanding the differences between these two architectures becomes crucial for engineers, developers and technology enthusiasts alike. Let us talk about Von Neumann and Harvard architectures … Read more
Get to understand the difference between Shopify, Magneto and wooCommerce. The basis of comparison include: Market share, Security, Performance, Customer service, Design & Templates, SEO score, User-friendliness, Advantages, Disadvantages and Pricing. The Key Difference Market Share Usually, the statistics about usage of any eCommerce platform give a hint about popularity of the platform. The more … Read more
Anti-diuretic hormone (ADH) is also referred to as vasopressin or arginine vasopressin (AVP). It is a neuro-secretary peptide hormone, produced naturally in an area of the brain referred to as the hypothalamus. It is then released by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain. ADH being a hormone is a protein in nature … Read more
Nucleoside is a structural sub-unit of nucleic acids, the heredity-controlling component of all living cells, consisting of a molecule of sugar linked to a nitrogen-containing organic ring compound. Nucleosides are usually obtained by chemical or enzymatic decomposition of nucleic acids. In nucleosides, the sugar is either ribose or deoxyribose and the nitrogen-containing compound is either … Read more
What Are Deuterostomes And Protostomes? Deuterostomes are the animals whose embryonic development undergoes radial cleavage. In other words, the cell division planes take place radially during the formation of the blastula through cleavage of the fertilized egg embryo. In deuterostomes, the first cavity formed by the blastopore ends up as the organism’s anus, while the … Read more
Nutrition is a biological study of food and various modes of nutrition of living organisms. It is one of the ways the living organisms obtain energy required for all the vital processes of the body. On the basis of nutrition, all the organisms are divided into two main groups- autotrophs and heterotrophs. Their corresponding modes … Read more
Cilia and Flagella are small hair like cytoplasmic processes arising from the free margins of the cell. These structures have the same internal length; however they differ in size, length, number and chemical composition. Cilia and flagella are made up of microtubules and are covered by an extension of the plasma membrane. They also motile … Read more