Enrichment
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Enrichment may mean:
- EducationEducationEducation in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
. - The process of adding nutrients to cereals or grain: see food fortificationFood fortificationFood fortification or enrichment is the process of adding micronutrients to food. It can be purely a commercial choice to provide extra nutrients in a food, or sometimes it is a public health policy which aims to reduce numbers of people with dietary deficiencies in a population.Diets that lack...
. - The process of adding sugar to grape must during winemaking in order to achieve a higher alcohol content of the wine, more commonly referred to as chaptalizationChaptalizationChaptalization is the process of adding sugar to unfermented grape must in order to increase the alcohol content after fermentation. The technique is named after its developer, the French chemist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal...
. - Behavioral enrichment, the practice of providing animals under managed care with stimuli such as natural and artificial objects.
- Environmental enrichment (neural)Environmental enrichment (neural)Environmental enrichment concerns how the brain is affected by the stimulation of its information processing provided by its surroundings . Brains in richer, more stimulating environments, have increased numbers of synapses, and the dendrite arbors upon which they reside are more complex...
, how the brain is affected by the stimulation of its information processing provided by its surroundings - The process of enhancing breathing gas for scuba diving (e.g. in Enriched Air Nitrox).
- Job enrichmentJob enrichmentJob enrichment is an attempt to motivate employees by giving them the opportunity to use the range of their abilities. It is an idea that was developed by the American psychologist Frederick Hertzberg in the 1950s. It can be contrasted to job enlargement which simply increases the number of tasks...
, improving work processes and environments so they are more satisfying for employees. - Unjust enrichmentUnjust enrichmentUnjust enrichment is a legal term denoting a particular type of causative event in which one party is unjustly enriched at the expense of another, and an obligation to make restitution arises, regardless of liability for wrongdoing.Definition:...
, in civil law, a term for someone who has benefitted another party with the expectation of compensation, but who has not been justly compensated. - The Enrichment Center Percussion EnsembleEnrichment Center Percussion EnsembleThe Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble is a musical group based at the Enrichment Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina formed from adults with developmental disabilities and professional musicians...
from the Enrichment Centre in Winston-Salem NC - The United States Enrichment CorporationUnited States Enrichment CorporationThe United States Enrichment Corporation, a subsidiary of USEC Inc. , is a corporation that contracts with the United States Department of Energy to produce enriched uranium for use in nuclear power plants.-History:...
, a manufacturer of enriched uranium. - The Living Enrichment CenterLiving Enrichment CenterLiving Enrichment Center, often referred to as LEC, was a New Thought megachurch and retreat center in the U.S. state of Oregon. Originally founded in the Scholls, Oregon farmhouse of senior minister Mary Manin Morrissey in the mid-1970s, the church grew so exponentially that it moved to a 94,500...
, a church in Portland, Oregon. - The notion of enriched categoryEnriched categoryIn category theory and its applications to mathematics, enriched category is a generalization of category that abstracts the set of morphisms associated with every pair of objects to an opaque object in some fixed monoidal category of "hom-objects" and then defines composition and identity solely...
in mathematics.