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process costing (accounting)
...The most fully developed methods of cost finding are used to estimate the costs that have been incurred in a factory to manufacture specific products. The simplest of these methods is known as process costing. In this method, the accountant first accumulates the costs of each production operation or process for a specified time frame. This sum is then restated as an average by dividing the......
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process geomorphology (geology)
...It is, however, more nearly aimed at actual surficial changes that pertain to landforms than were Werner’s notions. The idea championed by Hutton formed the basis of what is now often referred to as process geomorphology. In this area of study, research emphasis is placed on observing what can be accomplished by a contemporary geologic agency such as running water. Later, the role of mov...
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process metallurgy
Following separation and concentration by mineral processing, metallic minerals are subjected to extractive metallurgy, in which their metallic elements are extracted from chemical compound form and refined of impurities....
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Process of Education, The (work by Bruner)
Bruner’s studies helped to introduce Piaget’s concept of developmental stages of cognition into the classroom. His much-translated book The Process of Education (1960) was a powerful stimulus to the curriculum-reform movement of the period. In it he argued that any subject can be taught to any child at any stage of development, if it is presented in the proper manner. Accordin...
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Process of Government: A Study of Social Pressures, The (work by Bentley)
In The Process of Government: A Study of Social Pressures (1908), his most noted work, Bentley attempted to develop a methodology of behavioral social-science research and urged concentration of study on overt human activity, the raw material of the political process. He arranged political data in terms of groups, interests, and pressures (a given activity might be viewed as the activity......
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Process of National Reorganization (Argentine history)
...municipal government under military control. Meanwhile, Videla initiated the infamous Process of National Reorganization, known subsequently as the “Guerra Sucia” (“Dirty War”), in which some 13,000–15,000 citizens were killed, often following their imprisonment and torture. The Argentine government, which maintained that......
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process painting (art)
direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that involves the spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes and the chance effects of dripping and spilling paint onto the canvas. The term was coined by the American art critic Harold Rosenberg to characterize the work of a group of American Abstract Expr...
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process philosophy
a 20th-century school of Western philosophy that emphasizes the elements of becoming, change, and novelty in experienced reality; it opposes the traditional Western philosophical stress on being, permanence, and uniformity. Reality—including both the natural world and the human sphere—is essentially historica...
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process synchronization (computing)
Process synchronization is required when one process must wait for another to complete some operation before proceeding. For example, one process (called a writer) may be writing data to a certain main memory area, while another process (a reader) may be reading data from that area and sending it to the printer. The reader and writer must be synchronized so that the writer does not overwrite......
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process theology (Christianity)
...thinkers. Hartshorne’s work was also shaped by Whitehead, his friend and mentor. He adapted Whitehead’s philosophy into a creative variation of metaphysics, which came to be known as “process theology” or, as Hartshorne called it, “panentheism” (“all in God”). In Hartshorne’s philosophy, God’s perfection is seen in the evolut...
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processing (photography)
Black-and-white processing and printing...
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processing fabric
Processing fabrics are used by various manufacturers for such purposes as filtration, for bolting cloths used for various types of sifting and screening, and in commercial laundering as press covers and as nets segregating lots during washing. In textile finishing back grays are used as backing for fabrics that are being printed....
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processing, food
any of a variety of operations by which raw foodstuffs are made suitable for consumption, cooking, or storage. A brief treatment of food processing follows. For fuller treatment of storage methods, see food preservation....
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processing, materials
the series of operations that transforms industrial materials from a raw-material state into finished parts or products. Industrial materials are defined as those used in the manufacture of “hard” goods, such as more or less durable machines and equipment produced for industry and consumers, as contrasted with disposable “soft” goods, such as chemicals, foodstuffs, pha...
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processing, production
Three types of automation in production can be distinguished: (1) fixed automation, (2) programmable automation, and (3) flexible automation....
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procession (religion)
in Christianity, organized body of people advancing in formal or ceremonial manner as an element of Christian ritual or as a less official expression of popular piety. Public processions seem to have come into vogue soon after the recognition of Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire by Constantine in the 4th century....
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Procession of the Magi (painting by Gozzoli)
...where he painted the frescoed chapel of the Medici-Riccardi Palace (dating from 1459 to 1460). Gozzoli’s work as a whole has a rather empty facility, but in the latter commission, his “Procession of the Magi” reveals an artist of great decorative talent, with a pronounced gift for landscape and portraiture. By 1463 he was working at ......
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Procession of the Three Magi, The (painting by Schnorr)
...of the Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg into Basel in 1273” (c. 1809; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main) and Schnorr’s “The Procession of the Three Magi” (1819; Museum of Fine Art, Leipzig). Alfred Rethel, a late arrival, however, manages to avoid such an effect in his haunting “King Dav...
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processional staging (theatre)
The fifth type of staging employed movable settings. Processional staging was particularly popular in Spain. The wagons, called carros, on which the scenery was mounted were positioned next to platforms that had been erected in every town. Developments were somewhat different in England and the Netherlands. There, the mansions themselves became portable, being called pageant wagons in......
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Processional Way (road, Middle East)
In Babylon about 615 bc the Chaldeans connected the city’s temples to the royal palaces with the Processional Way, a major road in which burned bricks and carefully shaped stones were laid in bituminous mortar....
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processionary caterpillar (insect larva)
larval stage characteristic of the small insect family Thaumetopoeidae (order Lepidoptera), sometimes classified as part of the prominent moth family (Notodontidae). These hairy caterpillars live in communal webs and march in columns to their food source. During the mov...
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Procházka, Jan (Czech author)
...rebellion with sanctions: Jan Beneš was sent to prison for antistate propaganda; Ludvík Vaculík, Antonín J. Liehm, and Ivan Klíma were expelled from the party; and Jan Procházka was dismissed from the party’s Central Committee, of which he was a candidate member. This repression merely streng...
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Prochlorales (bacteria)
...OxyphotobacteriaGram-negative bacteria that carry out oxygen-evolving photosynthesis. Includes the cyanobacteria and the order Prochlorales; gliding or nonmotile forms. Most cyanobacteria are photoautotrophs and can fix dinitrogen gas. Often form long cell filaments.Division......
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prochlorophyte algae (biology)
The algae as treated in this article do not include the prokaryotic (nucleus-lacking) blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) or prochlorophytes. Beginning in the 1970s, some scientists suggested that the study of the prokaryotic algae should be incorporated into the study of bacteria because of certain shared cellular features. However, other scientists consider the oxygen-producing photosynthetic......
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Próchno (work by Berent)
...to the Young Poland movement, though he was never a member of that group, he voiced criticism of Positivism in his first novel, Fachowiec (1895; “A Specialist”). In Próchno (1903; “Rotten Wood”) Berent expressed interest in the decadent lifestyle of artistic bohemians in contemporary urban settings—Berlin, in this case—a...
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Procida, Island of (island, Italy)
island near the northwest entrance to the Bay of Naples, Campania regione, southern Italy. It lies between Ischia Island and Cape Miseno on the mainland, and its highest point reaches 250 feet (76 metres) above sea level. Of v...
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Prock, Markus (Austrian luger)
...in 1992 at Albertville, France, with polished starts, a refined technique, and an older style of sled. He took first place easily by winning three of the four runs and beating silver medalist Markus Prock (Austria) by 0.3 second in the final standings....
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Proclamation Society (British organization)
...trader who had repented and who had been the pastor at Wilberforce’s church when he was a child. In 1787 Wilberforce helped to found a society for the “reformation of manners” called the Proclamation Society (to suppress the publication of obscenity) and the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade—the latter more commonly called the Anti-Slavery Societ...
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Proclus (Greek philosopher)
the last major Greek philosopher. He was influential in helping Neoplatonic ideas to spread throughout the Byzantine, Islāmic, and Roman worlds....
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Proclus of Constantinople (patriarch of Constantinople)
A number of theologians and ecclesiastics either prepared the way for or contributed to the Chalcedonian solution. Three who deserve mention are Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Proclus of Constantinople, and John Cassian. The first was probably responsible for drafting the Formula of Union (433) that became the basis of the Chalcedonian Definition. Proclus was an outstanding pulpit orator, and several of......
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Procne (Greek mythology)
in Greek legend, king of Thrace, or of Phocis, who married Procne, daughter of Pandion, king of Athens. Later Tereus seduced his wife’s sister Philomela, pretending that Procne was dead. In order to hide his guilt, he cut out Philomela’s tongue. But she revealed the crime to her sister by working the details in embroidery. Procne...
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Procnias (bird genus)
Four bellbird species live in Central and South America and constitute the genus Procnias, although only one, the white bellbird (P. alba), has a call that can actually be described as “bell-like.” Females are drably coloured, but the males are mostly or entirely white. Only the males vocalize, and.....
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Procnias alba (bird)
Four bellbird species live in Central and South America and constitute the genus Procnias, although only one, the white bellbird (P. alba), has a call that can actually be described as “bell-like.” Females are drably coloured, but the males are mostly or entirely white. Only the males vocalize, and.....
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Procnias averano
...in three of the four species, the males possess fleshy ornamentation on the head. The white bellbird has a tapering black spike, sparsely feathered, on the forehead. The mossy-throated, bearded, or black-winged bellbird (P. averano) has many thin wattles hanging from the throat. The three-wattled bellbird (P. tricarunculata), confined to ......
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Procnias nudicollis (bird)
...three bill wattles. One hangs from each corner of the mouth, and another dangles from the bill’s upper base, each wattle measuring about one-third the length of the entire 30-cm (12-inch) bird. The naked-throated bellbird (P. nudicollis) has a green face and throat. These jay-sized, fruit-eating birds produce calls that can be heard for long distances....
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Procnias tricarunculata (bird)
...has a tapering black spike, sparsely feathered, on the forehead. The mossy-throated, bearded, or black-winged bellbird (P. averano) has many thin wattles hanging from the throat. The three-wattled bellbird (P. tricarunculata), confined to Central America, has three bill wattles. One hangs from each corner of......
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Procolobus (primate)
...more or less thumbless and can be distinguished by colour: black-and-white colobus (genus Colobus), red colobus (genus Piliocolobus), and olive colobus (genus Procolobus)....
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Procolophonia (reptile order)
...and cowlike. Dermal sculpturing of large tuberosities and deep pits on skull; limbs well developed; often possess a robust limb and trunk skeleton.†Order Procolophonia (procolophonians)Upper Permian to Upper Triassic. Three or 4 families, about 30 genera. Small (typically less than 0.5 metr...
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proconodontid (fossil)
a small toothlike structure found in marine rocks formed over a long span of geologic time, that is among the most primitive of the conodonts. It lived during the Late Cambrian Period (the Cambrian Period began about 542 million years ago and ended abou...
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Proconsul (fossil anthropoid)
...apes. Later deposits have yielded such fossils as Pliopithecus, once thought to be related to gibbons but now known to be primitive and long separated from them. Closer to the modern apes are Proconsul, Afropithecus, Dryopithecus, and Sivapithecus, the latter being a possible ancestor of the orangutan....
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proconsul (ancient Roman official)
in the ancient Roman Republic, a consul whose powers had been extended for a definite period after his regular term of one year. From the mid-4th century bc the Romans recognized the necessity, during lengthy wars, of extending the terms of certain magistrates; such extension was termed prorogatio. Initially prorogation was voted by the people, but soon the Senate assumed this...
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Proconsul africanus (fossil)
Among the other important finds made by Leakey’s team was the discovery in 1948 at Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria, Kenya, of the remains of Proconsul africanus, a common ancestor of both humans and apes that lived about 25 million years ago. At Fort Ternan (east of Lake Victoria) in 1962, Leakey’s team discovered the remains of ......
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Proconsulidae (fossil primate family)
...diverged from the modern ape/human lineage before any of the living members of this group began to diverge from each other, and this led him to classify it in a separate family, Proconsulidae. Since the 1980s a number of other genera (Limnopithecus, Dendropithecus, Afropithecus, Kamoypithecus, and others) have been......
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Procopius (Byzantine historian)
Byzantine historian whose works are an indispensable source for his period and contain much geographical information....
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Procopius (Roman emperor)
...the influence of legists, such as the praetorian prefect Modestus. The beginning of Valens’ reign was shadowed by the attempted usurpation of Procopius (365–366), a pagan relative of Julian’s who failed and was killed by the army, which remained faithful to Valens. Modestus instituted harsh persecutions in Antioch of th...
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Procopius Anthemius (Roman emperor)
Western Roman emperor who reigned from April 12, 467, to July 11, 472....
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Procopius the Great (Bohemian priest)
Bohemian warrior-priest who was the foremost leader of the Hussite Reformation forces in the later period of the Hussite wars....
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Procoptas (Greek mythological figure)
in Greek legend, a robber dwelling somewhere in Attica—in some versions, in the neighbourhood of Eleusis. His father was said to be Poseidon. Procrustes had an iron bed (or, according to some accounts, two beds) on which he compelled his victims to lie. Here, if a victim was shorter...
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Procris (insect)
any of a group of moths in the family Zygaenidae (order Lepidoptera) that are closely related to the burnet moths. The adult forester moth has shining green forewings with a span of about 3 cm (1.2 inches), translucent, dark hind wings, and an iridescent body. The insect’s green appearance at rest may have given rise to the common name forester. Young larvae mine in leaves of various ...
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Procris (Greek mythology)
...the vixen of Teumessus that had ravaged Boeotia. Ovid (Metamorphoses, Book VII) confused this Cephalus with Cephalus, son of Deion, king of Phocis, and husband of Procris, daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens. In this version of the story, Cephalus’s devotion to hunting aroused in Procris suspicions that she had a rival, and so she followed him. Emerging......
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Procrustes (Greek mythological figure)
in Greek legend, a robber dwelling somewhere in Attica—in some versions, in the neighbourhood of Eleusis. His father was said to be Poseidon. Procrustes had an iron bed (or, according to some accounts, two beds) on which he compelled his victims to lie. Here, if a victim was shorter...
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procryptic coloration (biology)
in animals, the use of biological coloration to mask location, identity, and movement, providing concealment from prey and protection from predators. Background matching is a type of concealment in which an organism avoids recognition by resembling its background in coloration, form, or movement. In disruptive coloration, the identity and location of an animal may be concealed t...
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Procter & Gamble Company (American company)
major American manufacturer of soaps, cleansers, and other household products. Headquarters are in Cincinnati, Ohio....
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Procter, Henry A. (British brigadier general)
After the U.S. naval triumph in the Battle of Lake Erie in September 1813, the British commander at Detroit, Brigadier General Henry A. Procter, found his position untenable and began a hasty retreat across the Ontario peninsula. He was pursued by about 3,500 U.S. troops under Major General William Henry Harrison, who was supported by the......
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Procter, Thomas (English engineer)
...meet that demand. In 1585 the Italian engineer Guido Toglietta wrote a thoughtful treatise on a pavement system using broken stone that represented a marked advance on the heavy Roman style. In 1607 Thomas Procter published the first English-language book on roads. The first highway engineering school in Europe, the School of Bridges and Highways, was founded in Paris in 1747. Late in the 18th....
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Procter, William Cooper (American businessman)
American manufacturer who established the nation’s first profit-sharing plan for employees....
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proctitis (pathology)
acute inflammatory infection of the anus and rectum. The most common cause of proctitis is the direct inoculation of pathogenic microorganisms into the rectum during anal intercourse, but it may be caused by sexually transmitted diseases, Crohn disease...
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proctocele (medical disorder)
disorder in which the rectum bulges into the back wall of the vagina. It is caused when the muscles and connective tissues supporting the rectum and back wall of the vagina are weakened, usually due to repeated childbirth or to aging, and the rectum sags until it abuts the vagina. A rectocele often occurs together with an enterocele, which is a bulge of the ...
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proctocolitis (pathology)
...sexually transmitted infections in the same individual. When the infection extends beyond the rectum to the sigmoid colon, it is termed proctocolitis; this disorder usually involves the additional symptoms of diarrhea, abdominal cramping, and fever....
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proctodaeum (anatomy)
Other herbivores make efficient use of leafy foods through hindgut fermentation. In animal species generally, the main breakdown of foods by enzymes and absorption into the bloodstream occurs in the small intestine. The main function of the large intestine is then to absorb most of the water remaining so as to conserve losses when the......
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proctor (law)
in English law, formerly a practitioner in ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, who performed duties similar to those of solicitors in ordinary courts. After the Judicature Act of 1873, the title of proctor in this sense became obsolete, the term solicitor being extende...
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proctoscope (medical instrument)
A rigid, 25-centimetre sigmoidoscope is less expensive and allows direct visualization of the bowel, but it is less popular because of the greater discomfort its rigidity causes. The proctoscope and anoscope, shorter rigid instruments used to visualize the lower rectum and anus, are used to diagnose and treat hemorrhoids and other lesions in the anorectal area....
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proctosigmoidoscope (medical instrument)
...for abnormalities. A fecal test may also be used to detect the presence of blood in the stool. In order to examine the rectum more carefully, a physician may use a narrow, flexible tube called a sigmoidoscope to look at the lining of the rectum and the end of the colon. Colonoscopy uses a similar device to examine the entire colon. A biopsy may also be conducted in which abnormal tissue is......
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procuracy (Soviet law)
in the former Soviet legal system, a government bureau concerned with ensuring administrative legality. The Soviet constitution invested the procurator general (Russian: generalny prokuror) with the responsibility of supervising the observance of the law by all government ministries and institutions subordinate to the...
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procurador (Spanish official)
...in Catalonia from 1218, Valencia (1283), Aragon (1274), and Navarre (1300). The Cortes of Leon and Castile were composed of three estates: nobles, clergy, and the procuradores (attorneys or town clerks) of the concejos (fortified municipalities), who bore poderes......
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procurator (ancient Roman official)
government financial agent in ancient Rome. From the reign of the emperor Augustus (27 bc–ad 14), procurators were regularly appointed to official posts in the imperial administration of the provinces or in the departments of the imperial government concerning such matters as the grain supp...
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Procurator Giovanni Querini (painting by Tiepolo)
...of sensual existentialism to the decorative ensemble. Interspersed among his many decorations, Tiepolo painted many portraits. A unique example is the superb portrait of the Procurator Giovanni Querini (?), owned by the Galleria Querini-Stampalia of Venice; it represents not only a man but also an undermined aristocracy destined to fall....
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procurator-fiscal (Scottish official)
...is not part of either the police or the judicial system; a wide variety of terms have been used to designate this official (e.g., district attorney in the state jurisdictions of the United States, procurator-fiscal in Scotland, and crown attorney in Canada). The prosecutor may be an elected local official (as in many jurisdictions in the United States) or a member of an organization......
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procuratores (ancient Roman official)
government financial agent in ancient Rome. From the reign of the emperor Augustus (27 bc–ad 14), procurators were regularly appointed to official posts in the imperial administration of the provinces or in the departments of the imperial government concerning such matters as the grain supp...
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procurement (business)
Closely related to production scheduling is purchasing, because many of the inputs needed for production must be purchased from outside vendors. The logistics staff advises as to the transportation services that must be used to ensure that the purchased materials arrive on schedule. If the vendor assumes responsibility for the delivery of the inputs, the buyer’s logistics staff monitors the...
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Procuress, The (painting by Baburen)
...“Christ Crowned with Thorns” (c. 1621–22), based on a lost painting by the master. Baburen was especially fond of genre scenes (subjects from everyday life), such as “The Procuress” (1622; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). A certain coarseness in conception, irregular compositional rhythms, and less atmospheric quality distinguish Baburen’s art from ...
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Procuress, The (painting by Vermeer)
...and Christ in the House of Mary and Martha (c. 1655). The most striking assimilation of the two traditions is apparent in Vermeer’s The Procuress (1656). The subject of this scene of mercenary love is derived from a painting by the Utrecht-school artist Dirck van Baburen in the collection of Vermeer’s mother-in-law, ...
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procureur (French official)
...with the responsibility for prosecuting criminal cases and representing the interests of society in civil litigation. The ministère public is represented by agents (procureurs) in most of the courts of France, except police courts....
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procureur général (French official)
...five civil chambers, including those that dealt specifically with financial and commercial problems or with social problems. The court as a whole has a premier president and a chief prosecutor (procureur général), who is assisted by several advocates. Petitions for appeal go directly to the relevant chamber, which decides whether it will hear them. Although most cases are.....
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procuticle (anatomy)
...system, contributes to efficient locomotion. The exoskeleton is composed of a thin, outer protein layer, the epicuticle, and a thick, inner, chitin–protein layer, the procuticle. In most terrestrial arthropods, such as insects and spiders, the epicuticle contains waxes that aid in reducing evaporative water loss. The procuticle consists of an outer exocuticle and......
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Procynosuchidae (fossil reptile family)
The suborder Cynodontia contains, according to some classifications, five families—Procynosuchidae, Galesauridae, Tritylodontidae, Chiniquodontidae, and Trithelodontidae. The first mammals probably derived from small carnivorous chiniquodontids or trithelodonts sometime in the Middle Triassic......
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Procyon (mammal)
any of seven species of nocturnal mammals characterized by bushy, ringed tails. The most common and well-known is the North American raccoon (Procyon lotor), which ranges from northern Canada and most of the United States southward into South America...
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Procyon (star)
brightest star in the northern constellation Canis Minor (Lesser Dog) and one of the brightest in the entire sky, with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.41. Procyon lies 11.4 light-years from Earth and is a visual binary, a bright y...
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Procyon cancrivorous (mammal)
The crab-eating raccoon (P. cancrivorus) inhabits South America as far south as northern Argentina. It resembles the North American raccoon but has shorter, coarser fur. The other members of genus Procyon are not well known. Most are tropical and probably rare. They are the Barbados raccoon (P. gloveralleni), the Tres Marías......
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Procyon lotor
any of seven species of nocturnal mammals characterized by bushy, ringed tails. The most common and well-known is the North American raccoon (Procyon lotor), which ranges from northern Canada and most of the United States southward into South America. It has a conspicuous......
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procyonid (mammal)
any of a group of tree-climbing mammals comprising raccoons, coatis, the New World ringtail, the cacomistle, and the kinkajou. Though the 18 species are classified as carnivores, procyonids are actually omnivorous and are closely related to bears (family Ursidae). In...
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Procyonidae (mammal)
any of a group of tree-climbing mammals comprising raccoons, coatis, the New World ringtail, the cacomistle, and the kinkajou. Though the 18 species are classified as carnivores, procyonids are actually omnivorous and are closely related to bears (family Ursidae). In...
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Prodanov, Christo (Bulgarian mountaineer)
Several teams attempted to repeat the Yugoslav West Ridge direct route without success, until a Bulgarian team did so in 1984. The first Bulgarian to reach the summit, Christo Prodanov, climbed without supplemental oxygen, was forced to bivouac overnight during the descent, and died—one of four summiteers who climbed without oxygen in the 1980s and failed to return....
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Prodea Systems (American company)
After completing her space mission, Ansari continued to work as a businesswoman and entrepreneur. In 2006 she cofounded Prodea Systems, a digital technology company, and served as the company’s first chief executive officer. Prodea announced a partnership with Space Adventures, Ltd., and the Federal Space Agency of Russia to create a fl...
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Proden, Maria Elena (British designer)
British costume and set designer (b. Feb. 16, 1949, Paris, France—d. Dec. 13, 2002, London, Eng.), created imaginative and innovative designs for more than 125 opera, ballet, and theatre productions in a career that spanned 32 years. She was most acclaimed for her work on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera (1986), for which she was honoured with two Tony, two Outer Cri...
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Prodi, Romano (prime minister of Italy)
Italian politician who was twice prime minister of Italy (1996–98; 2006–08) and who served as president of the European Commission (1999–2004)....
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Prodicus (Greek Sophist)
Other authors too contributed to a growing Greek interest in inference and proof. Early rhetoricians and sophists—e.g., Gorgias, Hippias, Prodicus, and Protagoras (all 5th-century bc)—cultivated the art of defending or attacking a thesis by means of argument. This concern for the techniques of argument on occasion merely led to verbal displays of debating skills,...
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Pródiga (work by Gonçalves)
...“História de Tempo Antigo” (1960; “Story of Former Times”) involves the death of the narrator’s mother and emphasizes familial bonds between mother and child. Pródiga (1956; “The Prodigal Daughter”) examines the life of a wayward daughter who leaves home, has an affair, and returns to the fold. O Enterro de Nhá Cand...
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Prodigal Son, The (sculpture by Brancusi)
...the time, Brancusi was interested in the “primitive” qualities of African arts. His first sculpture in wood, The Prodigal Son, in 1914, was very close to abstraction; it is a piece of rudely carved oak with the scarcely perceptible features of a human......
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Prodigal Son, The (ballet by Prokofiev)
...in the world repertoire: Apollo (1928), the first example of his individual neoclassical style, and Le Fils prodigue (The Prodigal Son, 1929)....
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Prodigal, The (poem by Walcott)
...paintings. (The latter are mostly watercolours of island scenes. Walcott’s father had been a visual artist, and the poet began painting early on.) The book-length poem The Prodigal (2004), its setting shifting between Europe and North America, explores the nature of identity and exile. Selected......
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prodigy
a child who, by about age 10, performs at the level of a highly trained adult in a particular sphere of activity or knowledge. In this sense, neither high intelligence nor eccentric skills by themselves qualify a child as a prodigy. Rather, it is the capacity to perform in a recognized area of endeavour in such a way as to receive broad acclaim that defines the prodigy. Therefore, individuals who ...
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Prodigy, the (British music group)
...touch of the Detroit originators and their inheritors Carl Craig and Jeff Mills, a rowdy, rock-and-roll mutant of techno invaded the American mainstream in 1997, with the success of albums by the Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers....
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prodomal period (medicine)
...chickenpox, in which the growth of the specific virus in the mucosal cells of the throat during the first few days of infection usually results in mild fever and achiness; this stage is called the prodromal period of the illness. During the next few days, the virus enters the draining lymph nodes and then the bloodstream, where it is spread throughout the tissues of the body, resulting in......
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Prodoxidae (insect family)
The study of the coevolution between moths of the family Prodoxidae and their host plants illustrates the interplay of phylogeny and ecology. Prodoxid moths include some species that have become major pollinators of plants. These pollinators include yucca moths (of the genera Tegeticula and Parategeticula) and Greya moths (see above Interspecific interactions and the......
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Prodoxinae (insect)
(genus Tegeticula), any of four species of insects of the Prodoxidae family of moths (order Lepidoptera). The adults are small, diurnal, and have tiny spines covering their wings....
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Prodoxus (insect)
...formed. The larvae eat about half the approximately 200 seeds produced by the plant. The yucca can be fertilized by no other insect, and the moth can utilize no other plant. Larvae of the related bogus yucca moth (Prodoxus) feed in the stems and seed capsules of the yucca plant and also attack the century plant....
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Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae… (work by Brown)
...his time to classifying the approximately 3,900 species he had gathered, almost all of which were new to science. The results of his Australian trip were partially published in 1810 as his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae . . . , a classic of systematic botany and Brown’s major work, in which he laid the foundations for Australian botany while refining the prevailing systems of.....
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Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno’s Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid, The (work by Steno)
Steno traveled extensively in Italy, and in 1669 he published his geological observations in De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus (The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno’s Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid). In this work, a milestone in the literature of geology, he laid the foundations of the science of...
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Prodromus, Theodore (Byzantine author)
Byzantine writer, well known for his prose and poetry, some of which is in the vernacular....
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