Useful Narragansett Bay Web Sites: 1  Narragansett Bay Commission. 2  Narragansett Bay Estuary Program. 3  Narragansett Bay PORTS. 4  National Estuary Research Reserve, Narragansett Bay. 5  Monitoring Network for Narragansett Bay Waters. 6  Save the Bay. 7  Rhode Island Sea Grant.
DEFINITION of 'Information Silo'. An information management system that is unable to freely communicate with other information management systems. Communication within an information silo is always vertical, making it difficult or impossible for the system to work with unrelated systems.
The International System of Units (SI) is system of units of measurements that is widely used all over the world. This modern form of the Metric system is based around the number 10 for convenience. A set unit of prefixes have been established and are known as the SI prefixes or the metric prefixes (or units). The prefixes indicate whether the unit is a multiple or a fraction of the base ten.