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Bios or BIOS may refer to:
- English transliteration of the ancient Greek term for life, βίος, giving rise to the common prefix bio-, as in biology
- BIOS, the Basic Input/Output System firmware of an IBM PC-compatible computer
- Informal abbreviation of Biographies, written accounts of people's lives
- Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS)
- British Institute of Organ Studies (BIOS)
- British and Irish Orthoptic Society (BIOS)
- Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS)
- Bios (album), the third album by Costa Rican music group Gandhi
- BIOS Faction, in the Allegiance (video game)
- BIOS, the society journal of the Tri Beta society
- BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom
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Bios (album)
BIOS is the third album of the Costa Rican music group Gandhi.
Track listing
I: STUDIO
O: LIVE
El otro gol
"El otro gol" (English: The other goal or The another goal), known in some compilation albums as "Y otro gol" (English: And another goal), was a song made by Gandhi in honor to the Costa Rica national football team that classified to the 2002 Fifa World Cup. It was first released as "Y otro gol" in the album ¡Si se pudo! then as "El otro gol" in Bios. The song features a prominent fusion between reggae, pop and rock.
BIOS-3
BIOS-3 is a closed ecosystem at the Institute of Biophysics in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Its construction began in 1965, and was completed in 1972. BIOS-3 consists of a 315 m3 habitat suitable for up to three persons, and was initially used for developing closed ecosystems capable of supporting humans. It was divided into 4 compartments — one of which is a crew area. Initially one other compartment was an algal cultivator, and the other two 'phytrons' for growing wheat or vegetables. Later the algal cultivator was converted into a third phytron. A level of light comparable to sunlight was supplied in each of the 4 compartments by 20 kW xenon lamps, cooled by water jackets. The facility used 400 kW of electricity, supplied by a nearby hydroelectric power station.
Chlorella algae were used to recycle air breathed by humans, absorbing carbon dioxide and replenishing it with oxygen through photosynthesis. The algae were cultivated in stacked tanks under artificial light. To achieve a balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide, one human needed 8 m2 of exposed Chlorella. Air was purified of more complex organic compounds by heating to 600 °C in the presence of a catalyst. Water and nutrients were stored in advance and were also recycled. By 1968, system efficiency had reached 85% by recycling water. Dried meat was imported into the facility, and urine and feces were generally dried and stored, rather than being recycled.
