Friday, December 15, 2006

Psychology

Psychology is an academic and practical field relating the scientific study of mental procedures and conduct. Psychology as well refers to the application of such knowledge to a variety of spheres of human action, with troubles of persons' daily lives and the treatment of mental illness.

Psychology varies from the other social sciences — anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology — in looking for to make clear the mental procedures and conduct of individuals. Psychology differs from biology and neuroscience in that it is mainly concerned with the communication of mental procedures and actions on an entire level, as opposed to learning the biological or neural procedures themselves. Biological psychology is the scientific learning of the biological basis of conduct and mental conditions.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Rose

A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. There are more than a hundred species of wild roses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate regions. The species form a group of generally prickly shrubs or climbers, and sometimes trailing plants, reaching 2–5 m tall, rarely reaching as high as 20 m by climbing over other plants.

The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed through Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr).

The leaves of most species are 5–15 cm long, pinnate, with (3–) 5–9 (–13) leaflets and basal stipules; the leaflets usually have a serrated margin, and often a few small prickles on the underside of the stem. The vast majority of roses are deciduous, but a few (particularly in southeast Asia) are evergreen or nearly so.

The flowers of most species roses have ten parts (five petals and five sepals) with the exception of Rosa sericea which often has only four of each; and are usually white or pink, though in a few species yellow or red. The ovary is inferior, developing below the petals and sepals.