Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program produces a comprehensive tabulation of employment and wage information for workers covered by California Unemployment Insurance laws.
confluence (plural confluences) 1  The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river. 2  The act of combining which occurs at the place where rivers and the lake meet. 3  A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things. The confluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project. (biology) The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
Definition. Refers to the process used by the brain to combine (or bind) the results of many sensory operations into a single percept. This occurs, for example, when sensations of color, shape, boundary, and texture are combined to produce the percept of a person's face. No one knows exactly how the brain does this.