Scaffold (disambiguation)
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Scaffold and scaffolding may refer to:
- Instructional scaffoldingInstructional scaffoldingInstructional scaffolding is the provision of sufficient support to promote learning when concepts and skills are being first introduced to students...
, the provision of sufficient supports to promote learning when concepts and skills are being first introduced to students - ScaffoldingScaffoldingScaffolding is a temporary structure used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures. It is usually a modular system of metal pipes or tubes, although it can be from other materials...
, in construction, a temporary structure that supports workers and equipment above the ground or floor - Scaffold, in capital punishment, refers to a structure used as a gallowsGallowsA gallows is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging, or by means to torture before execution, as was used when being hanged, drawn and quartered...
that the condemned stands upon, often with a trap door; it can also refer to the elevated structure on which a condemned person is set to be beheaded - Scaffold, in chemistryChemistryChemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
, a structure that is used to hold up or support another material, such as a drug, crystal or protein - Scaffold, in drug designDrug designDrug design, also sometimes referred to as rational drug design or structure-based drug design, is the inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of the biological target...
, fixed part of a molecule on which functional groups are substituted or exchanged- The protein that is used as a starting point for the design of antibody mimeticAntibody mimeticAntibody mimetics are organic compounds that, like antibodies, can specifically bind antigens, but that are not structurally related to antibodies. They are usually artificial peptides or proteins with a molar mass of about 3 to 20 kDa...
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- The protein that is used as a starting point for the design of antibody mimetic
- Tissue scaffold, in tissue engineering, an artificial structure capable of supporting three-dimensional tissue formation
- The ScaffoldThe ScaffoldThe Scaffold were a comedy, poetry and music trio from Liverpool, England, consisting of Mike McGear , Roger McGough and John Gorman.-Career:...
, a United Kingdom musical group - Scaffold (programming)Scaffold (programming)Scaffolding is a meta-programming method of building database-backend software applications. It is a technique supported by some model-view-controller frameworks, in which the programmer may write a specification that describes how the application database may be used...
, a term that comes from the Ruby on Rails framework, which is a facility to construct most of the logic and views needed to do common data access operations, such as CRUD