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Amwoga Khalwale What is IMAP? IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is an Internet standard protocol used by email clients to retrieve email messages from a mail server over a TCP/IP connection.It stores email messages on a mail server and enables the recipient to view and manipulate them as though they were stored locally on their device(s). … Read more
What Is Physical Geography? Physical geography is the branch of geography that addresses the natural world. This includes mapping and studying landforms, geological processes affecting different areas, the distribution of ecosystems and the organisms within them, bodies of water, and issues of local climates and weather patterns. As the natural world involves a wide and diverse … Read more
What Are Isotopes? Isotopes are two or more types of atoms that have the same atomic number (number of protons in their nuclei) and position in the periodic table (and hence belong to the same chemical element), and that differ in nucleon numbers (mass numbers) due to different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei. While all isotopes of a given element have almost the same chemical properties, they … Read more
Chow Mein And Low Mein Both lo mein and Chow mein are noodle-based dishes originating from Northern China. They are generally found all over the world and they are an integral part of the Chinese-American food culture. To many people who patronize Chinese or American-Chinese restaurants, the names Cho mein and lo mein may sounds … Read more
What is a REST API? An API, or application programming interface, is a set of rules that define how applications or devices can connect to and communicate with each other. A REST API is an API that conforms to the design principles of the REST, or representational state transfer architectural style. For this reason, REST APIs are sometimes … Read more
What is a WebPage? A webpage is a document written in HTML and can be viewed on any web browser. It is contained within the web server, which can be accessed by entering the URL for that web page, and once it is loaded, it appears on the user’s web browser. Each webpage is linked … Read more
What Is Linear Text? Linear text refers to traditional text that requires to be read from the beginning to the end. This type of text has an order or sequence; it’s typically the author of the text who decides the order of the text or its reading path. Generally, texts printed on paper are considered … Read more
What is heat? Heat is the form of energy majorly due to temperature differences or increase in molecular kinetic energy. In other words, heat is energy transferred from one system to another solely by reason of a temperature difference between the systems. Heat exists only as it crosses the boundary of a system and the … Read more
What Is ADSL Cable? Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) is a type of digital subscriber line technology, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem can provide. ADSL is asymmetric in that it uses most of the channel to transmit downstream to the user and … Read more
In humans each lung is encased in a thin membraneous sac called the Pleura, and each is connected with the trachea (windpipe) by its main bronchus (large air passageway) and with the heart by the pulmonary arteries. Each Pleura can be divided into two parts: Visceral pleura-envelops the lung. Parietal pleura- covers the internal surface … Read more