Fixation may refer to the following:
In science:
- Fixation (psychology) Whether a particularly obsessive attachment is a fixation or a defensible expression of love is at times debatable. Fixation to intangibles can also occur. The obsessive factor is also found in symptoms pertaining to obsessive compulsive disorder, the state in which an individual becomes obsessed with an attachment to another human, an animal, or an inanimate object
- Fixation (visual) Fixation or visual fixation is the maintaining of the visual gaze on a single location. Humans typically alternate saccades and visual fixations, the notable exception being in smooth pursuit, controlled by a different set of ocularmotor muscles that appear to have developed for hunting prey. There are three categories of fixational eye movements: maintaining the gaze in a constant direction
- Fixation (alchemy) Fixation in alchemy refers to a process by which a previously volatile substance is "transformed" into a form that is not affected by fire, one of the 12 vital alchemical processes required for transformation
- Carbon fixation Carbon fixation refers to any process through which gaseous carbon dioxide is converted into a solid compound. It mostly refers to the processes found in autotrophs , usually driven by photosynthesis, whereby carbon dioxide is changed into sugars. Carbon fixation can also be carried out by the process of calcification in marine, calcifying, a biochemical process, usually driven by photosynthesis, whereby carbon dioxide is converted into organic compounds
- Nitrogen fixation Nitrogen fixation usually refers to the biological process by which nitrogen in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia. This process is essential for life because fixed nitrogen is required to biosynthesize the basic building blocks of life, e.g. nucleotides for DNA and amino acids for proteins. Formally, nitrogen fixation also refers to other, a process by which nitrogen is converted from its inert molecular form to a compound more readily available and useful to living organisms
- Fixation (population genetics) In population genetics, fixation is the change in a gene pool from a situation where there exist at least two variants of a particular gene to a situation where only one of the alleles remains. The term can refer to a gene in general or particular nucleotide position in the DNA chain (locus), the state when every individual in a population has the same allele at a particular locus
- Fixation (histology) In the fields of histology, pathology, and cell biology, fixation is a chemical process by which biological tissues are preserved from decay, either through autolysis or putrefaction. Fixation terminates any ongoing biochemical reactions, and may also increase the mechanical strength or stability of the treated tissues in biochemistry, histology, cell biology and pathology, the technique of preserving a specimen for microscopic study
- Fixation agent A fixation agent is a chemical that is capable to fixate one substance to another substance that the first substance have little affinity to is a process chemical Categories: Chemistry | Industrial processes | Catalysis | Chemical processes
In business and law:
- Fixation in business A business is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners and grow the business itself. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main refers to a company's reluctance to change to suit current market conditions, thus increasing the probability that the company will make larger numbers and greater severities of poor decisions.
- Fixation in law Law is a system of rules, usually enforced through a set of institutions. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a primary social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus ticket to trading on derivatives markets. Property law defines rights and obligations related refers to works entitled to copyright Copyright is the set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. Copyright lasts for a certain time period after which the work is said to enter the public domain. Copyright applies to a wide range of works that are substantive and fixed in a medium. Some protection (e.g. music, literature, paintings, etc.). Only works fixed in a medium can be copyrighted, not the ideas behind those works.
In online marketing
- Fixation online eye tracking Eye tracking is the process of measuring either the point of gaze or the motion of an eye relative to the head. An eye tracker is a device for measuring eye positions and eye movement. Eye trackers are used in research on the visual system, in psychology, in cognitive linguistics and in product design. There are a number of methods for measuring refers to the test subject fixing on a particular portion of the page. It is used to determine which areas of a web page receive the most views. This is used to adjust where content resides on a web page to maximize its exposure.
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