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Amwoga Khalwale A mechanized manipulation of the soil to provide favorable condition for crop growth is referred to as tilling or ploughing. Soil tillage or ploughing consists of several steps such as breaking the compact surface to a certain depth and loosen the soil mass to enable the crops to penetrate and spread into the soil. Ploughing … Read more
Hot springs and geysers are manifestations of volcanic activity. They result from the interaction of groundwater with magma or with solidified but still hot igneous rocks at shallow depth. What Is A Hot Spring? A hot spring is a spring that is produced when geothermally heated groundwater emerges from the Earth’s crust. Some hot springs … Read more
What Is WiFi? WiFi is a wireless networking technology that uses radio waves to provide wireless high-speed internet access. A common misconception is that the term WiFi is an acronym for ‘’wireless fidelity’’, however Wi-Fi is a trademarked phrase that refers to IEEE 802.11x standards. Wi-Fi networks have no physical wired connection between sender and … Read more
What Is A Passive Attack? A passive attack attempts to learn or make use of information from the system but does not affect system resources. Passive attacks are in nature of eavesdropping on or monitoring of transmission. In other words, the attacks focus on monitoring all the transmission and gaining the data. The attacker does … Read more
Computers have evolved fast from the time they were introduced. Computers were originally launched to be able to solve mathematical applications. These computers were slow to process data and could only run one operating at a time, which means another action or operation had to wait for one operation to become over, before another operation … Read more
Who Are Jobbers? They are professional independent brokers engaged in buying and selling of specified securities in their own name. Jobbers cannot deal on behalf of public and are barred from taking commission. They deal with brokers who in turn transact on behalf of the public. A jobber deals in a limited number of securities which he … Read more
What Is Starch? Starch is the most important source of carbohydrates in the human diet and accounts for more than 50% of our carbohydrate intake. It occurs in plants in the form of granules, and these are particularly abundant in seeds (especially the cereal grains) and tubers, where they serve as a storage form of … Read more
What is Scope? Scope determines the accessibility or visibility of variables to JavaScript. There are three types of scope in JavaScript: Global scope Function (local) scope Block scope (new with ES6) Variables declared outside a function are in the global scope. Global variables can be accessed and changed in any other scope. Variables defined within … Read more
What Is Postinor-1? Postinor-1 has one blister sheet containing one flat white tablet. The tablet contains 1.5 milligrams of levonorgestrel progestogen and the following inactive ingredients: potato starch, maize starch, colloidal anhydrous silica, magnesium stearate, talc and lactose. Postinor-1 is effective after one or several acts of intercourse in a row provided that all the … Read more
UTF-16 UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 non-surrogate code points of Unicode (in fact this number of code points is dictated by the design of UTF-16). The encoding is variable-length, as code points are encoded with one or two 16-bit code units. UTF-16 arose from an earlier fixed-width 16-bit encoding known as UCS-2 (for 2-byte Universal Character Set) … Read more