Like other succulent plants, most cacti employ a special mechanism called " Crassulacean acid metabolism " ( CAM ) as part of photosynthesis.

CAM plants have a different leaf anatomy from plants, and fix the at night, when their stomata are open.

Sixteen thousand species of plants use CAM.

A group of mostly desert plants called " CAM " plants ( Crassulacean acid metabolism, after the family Crassulaceae, which includes the species in which the CAM process was first discovered ) open their stomata at night ( when water evaporates more slowly from leaves for a given degree of stomatal opening ), use PEPcarboxylase to fix carbon dioxide and store the products in large vacuoles.

Certain plants use alternative forms of photosynthesis, called Crassulacean acid metabolism ( CAM ) and C4.

Crassulacean acid metabolism ( CAM photosynthesis ) is named after the family, because the pathway was first discovered in crassulacean plants.

Crassulacean acid metabolism, also known as CAM photosynthesis, is a carbon fixation pathway that evolved in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions.

CAM is an adaptation for increased efficiency in the use of water, and so is typically found in plants growing in arid conditions.

Sodium is involved in the regeneration of phosphoenolpyruvate in CAM and C4 plants.

CAM plants, such as cacti and succulent plants, use the enzyme PEP carboxylase ( which catalyzes the combination of carbon dioxide with a compound called Phosphoenolpyruvate or PEP ) in a mechanism called Crassulacean acid metabolism, or CAM, in which PEP carboxylase sequesters carbon at night and releases it to the photosynthesizing cells during the day.

CAM plants that use Crassulacean acid metabolism as an adaptation for arid conditions.

The jade plant ( Crassula ovata ) and cacti are typical of CAM plants.

Sixteen thousand species of plants use CAM.

They are so-called to distinguish them from the CAM and C < sub > 4 </ sub > plants, and because the carboxylation products of the Calvin cycle are 3-carbon compounds.

They lack C < sub > 4 </ sub > dicarboxylic acid cycles, and therefore have higher carbon dioxide compensation points than CAM or C < sub > 4 </ sub > plants.

Some plants have more and less efficient photosynthesis reactions, such as the C3, C4, and CAM photosynthesis reactions.

This process happens when light is available independent of the kind of photosynthesis ( C3 carbon fixation, C4 carbon fixation, and Crassulacean Acid Metabolism ); CAM plants store malic acid in their vacuoles every night and release it by day in order to make this process work.

The RT found its home mostly in the CAD / CAM and CATIA areas, with some inroads into the scientific and educational areas, especially after the announcement of AOS and substantial discounts for the educational community.

On 5 June 2009, First Air received their first wide-body aircraft in the form of a Boeing 767-223 SF ( Super Freighter ) which is under a three-year dry lease from ( CAM ) Cargo Aircraft Management, a subsidiary of Air Transport Services Group ( ATSG ).

A sophisticated medical system dating back over 2, 500 years, its adoption outside the Asian communities was limited by its lack of specific exportable skills and English-language reference books until an adapted and modernised form – New Age Ayurveda – came under the umbrella of CAM in the 1970s.

It has been used as a form of complementary and alternative medicine ( CAM ), as well as a means of improving athletic success.

As part of the arena purchase in 2012, the Blue Jackets and the university, along with Nationwide Insurance and the FCCFA, will form Columbus Arena Management ( CAM ).

One of the advantages of computerized dentistry ( CAD / CAM technologies ) involves the use of machinable ceramics which are sold in a partially sintered, machinable state that is fired again after machining to form a hard ceramic.

To this end the system includes computer-aided design ( CAD ) in the form of a 3D modeling system and computer-aided manufacturing ( CAM ) software and drivers that convert RepRap users ' designs into a set of instructions to the RepRap hardware that turns them into physical objects.

CI Plus or Common Interface Plus implements a form of copy protection between a Conditional Access Module ( CAM ) and the television receiver ( Host ).

When stressed by low availability of water, purslane, which has evolved in hot and dry environments, switches to photosynthesis using Crassulacean acid metabolism ( the CAM pathway ): At night its leaves trap carbon dioxide, which is converted into malic acid ( the souring principle of apples ), and, in the day, the malic acid is converted into glucose.

Xerophytes, such as cacti and most succulents, also use PEP carboxylase to capture carbon dioxide in a process called Crassulacean acid metabolism ( CAM ).

Pineapple carries out CAM photosynthesis, fixing carbon dioxide at night and storing it as the acid malate and then releasing it during the day, aiding photosynthesis.

Bromeliads also use crassulacean acid metabolism ( CAM ) photosynthesis to create sugars.

W. mirabilis has been classified as a CAM plant ( crassulacean acid metabolism ) after reconciliation of some initially contradictory and confusing data.

Some become completely dormant for months at a time ; many epiphytes show CAM ( crassulacean acid metabolism ), which involves taking in CO < sub > 2 </ sub > at night, and photo-fixing it during the day with closed stomata to reduce water loss by transpiration.

In MBD, the information captured by the CAD software app is fed automatically into a CAM app ( computer-aided manufacturing ), and is translated via postprocessor into other languages such as G-code, which is executed by a CNC machine tool ( computer numerical control ).

Alternative medicine is frequently grouped with complementary medicine or integrative medicine, which, in general, refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.

In contrast to metabolism, which physically separates the fixation to PEP from the Calvin cycle, CAM temporally separates these two processes.

CAM is a subsequent computer-aided process after computer-aided design ( CAD ) and sometimes computer-aided engineering ( CAE ), as the model generated in CAD and verified in CAE can be input into CAM software, which then controls the machine tool.

Research groups like VLSI Design, CAD / CAM also have computing facilities which are accessible to other departments for development activities.

* Numerical computational geometry, also called machine geometry, computer-aided geometric design ( CAGD ), or geometric modeling, which deals primarily with representing real-world objects in forms suitable for computer computations in CAD / CAM systems.

Technovision was a modular CAD / CAM system which was internationally considered to be one of the best on the market.

Mastercam's name is a double entendre: it implies mastery of CAM ( computer-aided manufacturing ), which involves today's latest machine tool control technology ; and it simultaneously pays homage to yesterday's machine tool control technology by echoing the older term master cam, which referred to the main cam or model that a tracer followed in order to control the movements of a mechanically automated machine tool.

Unlike standard computer memory ( random access memory or RAM ) in which the user supplies a memory address and the RAM returns the data word stored at that address, a CAM is designed such that the user supplies a data word and the CAM searches its entire memory to see if that data word is stored anywhere in it.

Unlike a RAM chip, which has simple storage cells, each individual memory bit in a fully parallel CAM must have its own associated comparison circuit to detect a match between the stored bit and the input bit.

The additional circuitry increases the physical size of the CAM chip which increases manufacturing cost.

Binary CAM is the simplest type of CAM which uses data search words consisting entirely of 1s and 0s.

For example, a ternary CAM might have a stored word of " 10XX0 " which will match any of the four search words " 10000 ", " 10010 ", " 10100 ", or " 10110 ".

To counter the German long range patrol aircraft which targeted merchant convoys the British introduced the CAM ship which was a merchant vessel equipped with a single fighter aircraft which could be launched once to engage the enemy aircraft.