Informing America, One Click at a Time
Amwoga Khalwale 
Organizational communication can take on a variety of forms. The most common categories of communication are diagonal, horizontal and vertical. Each of these types of communication has its own specific qualities, but at the same time, certain factors can overlap from one category to another. In this article, I discuss the two most common (Horizontal … Read more
What Is OLTP (Online Transaction Processing)? Online transaction processing system (OLTP) is designed to support transaction-oriented applications related to 3-tier architecture. OLTP stores day-to-day business transactions and is well-suited for querying specific records for example email address of a customer. OLTP is carried in a client server system and many organizations use database management system … Read more
GSM (Global System For Mobile Communication) GSM (Global System For Mobile Communication) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to describe the protocols for second-generation digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets. The idea of GSM was first developed at Bell Laboratories in 1970, and was … Read more
What Is 8085 Microprocessor? The Intel 8085 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Intel in March 1977 using NMOS technology. During its operation, data is stored in the accumulator and temporary registers. Also, the output of the operation is stored in the accumulator and in accordance with the outcome generated; the flags get set and … Read more
A Trophic State Index is a standard used to determine the nutritional state of a water body i.e the quantity of biologically useful nutrients like phosphorus, nitrogen etc dissolved in a water body. The most commonly used trophic indices is the Carlson’s index, whereby the trophic state of a water body is described as the … Read more
Learn the differences between protic and aprotic solvents in the context of their definition, molecular characteristics, properties and applications. What Is Protic Solvent? Protic solvents are a class of solvents characterized by the presence of hydrogen atoms (H) bonded to electronegative atoms, such as oxygen (O) or nitrogen (N). These hydrogen atoms have a tendency … Read more
Cis and Trans Isomers Two molecules are isomers if they contain the exact same number and types of atoms, with just a different arrangement or rotation around a chemical bond. Molecules are not isomers if they have a different number of atoms or different types of atoms from each other. Cis–trans isomerism also referred to … Read more
UNION The SQL UNION operator is used to combine the result sets of two or more SELECT statements. It removes duplicate rows between the various SELECT statements. Each SELECT statement within the UNION must have the same number of fields in the result sets with similar data types. What You Need To Know To Know … Read more
What Is Router? A router is a physical or virtual appliance that passes information between two or more packet-switched computer networks. Routers can analyze the data being sent over a network, change how it is packaged and send it to another network or over a different network. For example, routers are commonly used in home … Read more
What Is ODBC (Open Database Connectivity)? In computing, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard application programming interphase (API) for communicating and accessing database management systems. ODBC consists of four components working together to enable to enable functions. ODBC allows programs to use SQL requests that access database without knowing the proprietary interfaces to the … Read more