Sunday, February 24, 2008

Jupiter

Jupiter (pronounced /'d?u?p?t?/) is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the solar system. It is two and a half times as enormous as all of the other planets in our solar system combined. Jupiter, next to Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the Jovian planets; somewhere Jovian is the adjectival form of Jupiter.

The planet was known by astronomers of ancient times and was connected with the mythology and religious beliefs of many cultures. The Romans named the planet subsequent to the Roman god Jupiter. When view from Earth, Jupiter can arrive at an apparent magnitude of -2.8, creation it the third brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Strawberry

The strawberry (Fragaria) (plural strawberries) is a type of plants in the family Rosaceae and the fruit of these plants. There are more than 20 named types and a lot of hybrids and cultivars. The most frequent strawberries grown commercially are cultivars of the Garden strawberry. Strawberries have a taste that varies by cultivar, and range from quite sweet to slightly tartlet.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Business cluster

A business cluster is a geographic combination of interconnected businesses, suppliers, and associated institutions in a particular field. Clusters are considered to increase the output with which companies can compete, nationally and globally.

This idea, also known as a spirited cluster, industry cluster or Porter's cluster, was first urbanized by Michael Porter in 1990. Cluster development has since developed into a focus for many government programs. The next development of the concept of interorganizational networks in Germany and practical growth of Clusters in the UK.

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Tomato

The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its secure cousin’s tobacco, chili peppers, potato, and eggplant. The tomato is topic to Central, South, and southern North America from Mexico to Peru. It is a perennial, often grown outdoors in temperate climates as an annual, classically attainment to 1–3 m (3 to 10 ft) in height, with a weak, woody stem that often vines over other plants.

The leaves are 10–25 cm long, pinnate, with 5–9 leaflets, each leaflet up to 8 cm long, with a pointy margin; both the stem and leaves are thickly glandular-hairy. The flowers are 1–2 cm across, yellow, with five sharp lobes on the corolla; they are bear in a cyme of 3–12 together. The word tomato derives from an appearance in the Nahuatl language, tomatl. The exact name, lycopersicum, means "wolf-peach" evaluate the related species S. lycocarpum, whose scientific name means "wolf-fruit", common name "wolf-apple".