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LiteOS-LiteOS-Huawei Lite OS was a lightweight real-time operating system (RTOS) developed by Huawei. It is an open source, POSIX compliant operating system for Internet of things (IoT) devices, released under a three-clause BSD license. Microcontrollers of different architectures such as ARM (M0/3/4/7, A7/17/53, ARM9/... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
LiteOS-History-On 20 May 2015, at the Huawei Network Conference, Huawei proposed the '1+2+1' Internet of Things solution and release the IoT operating system named Huawei LiteOS. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
LiteOS-Key features-Lightweight, small kernel; <10 kilobytes (kB) Energy efficient Fast startup within milliseconds Support NB-IoT, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, BLE, Zigbee, and other different IoT protocols Support access to different cloud platforms | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
UBAP1-UBAP1-Ubiquitin-associated protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the UBAP1 gene.This gene is a member of the ubiquitin-associated domain (UBA) family, whose members include proteins having connections to ubiquitin and the ubiquitination pathway. The ubiquitin associated domain is thought to be a non... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
UBAP1-Model organisms-Model organisms have been used in the study of UBAP1 function. A conditional knockout mouse line, called Ubap1tm1a(EUCOMM)Wtsi was generated as part of the International Knockout Mouse Consortium program — a high-throughput mutagenesis project to generate and distribute animal models of disease to... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
VIVO (software)-VIVO (software)-VIVO is a web-based, open-source suite of computer software for managing data about researchers, scientists, and faculty members. VIVO uses Semantic Web techniques to represent people and their work. As of 2020, it is used by dozens of universities and the United States Department of Agr... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
VIVO (software)-History-The Cornell University Library originally created VIVO in 2003 as a "virtual life sciences community". In 2009, the National Institutes of Health awarded a $12.2 million grant to University of Florida, Cornell University, Indiana University, Ponce School of Medicine, The Scripps Research Institu... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
VIVO (software)-Data ingest-VIVO can harvest publication data from PubMed, CSV files, relational databases, or OAI-PMH harvest. It then uses a semi-automated process to match publications to researchers. It also harvests information about researchers from Human Resources systems and student information systems. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
VIVO (software)-Ontology-The VIVO ontology incorporates elements of several established ontologies, including Dublin Core, Basic Formal Ontology, Bibliographic Ontology, FOAF, and SKOS. The ontology can be used to describe several roles of faculty members, including research, teaching, and service.The Dutch Data Archiv... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Plate (dishware)-Plate (dishware)-A plate is a broad, mainly flat vessel on which food can be served. A plate can also be used for ceremonial or decorative purposes. Most plates are circular, but they may be any shape, or made of any water-resistant material. Generally plates are raised round the edges, either by a cur... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Plate (dishware)-Plate (dishware)-In Western culture and many other cultures, the plate is the typical form of vessel off which food is eaten, and on which it is served if not too liquid. The main rival is the bowl. The banana leaf predominates in some South Asian and Southeast Asian cultures. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Plate (dishware)-Design-Shape A plate is typically composed of: The well, the bottom of the plate, where food is placed.
The lip, the flattish raised outer part of the plate (sometimes wrongly called the rim). Its width in proportion to the well can vary greatly. It usually has a slight upwards slope, or is parallel wi... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Plate (dishware)-Design-Materials Plates are commonly made from ceramic materials such as bone china, porcelain, earthenware, and stoneware, as well as other traditional materials like, glass, wood or metal; occasionally, stone has been used. Despite a range of plastics and other modern materials, ceramics and other tr... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Plate (dishware)-Design-Size and type As the food availability increased, so did the plate sizes. The increase in the diameter of a typical dinner plate is estimated as 65% since 1000 AD. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Plate (dishware)-Design-Modern plates for serving food come in a variety of sizes and types, such as: Dinner plate (also full plate, meat plate, joint plate): large, 9–13 inches (23–33 cm) in diameter, only buffet/serving plates are larger. This is the main (at times only) individual plate, during its disappearance in ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Plate (dishware)-Design-Dessert plate (also sweet plate, half plate, fruit plate) has a diameter of 8 inches (20 cm), usually is substituted by an entrée plate Side plate (also bread and butter plate, B&B plate, quarter plate, cheese plate) has a diameter of 7 inches (18 cm), also used as an underplate for soup bowl Sa... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Plate (dishware)-Design-Cereal bowl (also oatmeal bowl, cereal plate), at 7.5 inches (19 cm) in diameter, used for porridge and breakfast cereal at the breakfast time, as well as milk pudding, compote, apple pie with custard sauce Luncheon plate, typically 9–9.5 inches (23–24 cm) in diameter, fell out of popularity at ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Plate (dishware)-Design-Charger (also a buffet plate, cover plate, lay plate, place plate, all names are due to the various uses of this large plate in the past and in the present): a plate typically placed under a separate plate used to hold food, largest and therefore most expensive plate in the set at 11–14 inches (... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Plate (dishware)-Plates as collectibles-Objects in Chinese porcelain including plates had long been avidly collected in the Islamic world and then Europe, and strongly influenced their fine pottery wares, especially in terms of their decoration. After Europeans also started making porcelain in the 18th century, monarch... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Plate (dishware)-Plates as collectibles-The practice of collecting "souvenir" or "commemorative" plates was popularized in the 19th century by Patrick Palmer-Thomas, a Dutch-English nobleman whose plates featured transfer designs commemorating special events or picturesque locales—mainly in blue and white. It was an in... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Plate (dishware)-Sources-Wansink, B; Wansink, C S (23 March 2010). "The largest Last Supper: depictions of food portions and plate size increased over the millennium". International Journal of Obesity. 34 (5): 943–944. doi:10.1038/ijo.2010.37. eISSN 1476-5497. ISSN 0307-0565. PMID 20308996. S2CID 25106530.
Condrasky, M... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Floptical-Floptical-Floptical refers to a type of floppy disk drive that combines magnetic and optical technologies to store data on media similar to standard 3+1⁄2-inch floppy disks. The name is a portmanteau of the words "floppy" and "optical". It refers specifically to one brand of drive and disk system, but is also... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Floptical-Floptical-The original Floptical technology was announced in 1988 and introduced late in 1991 by Insite Peripherals, a venture funded company set up by Jim Adkisson, one of the key engineers behind the original 5+1⁄4-inch floppy disk drive development at Shugart Associates in 1976. The main shareholders were ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Floptical-Technical aspects-The technology involves reading and writing data magnetically, while optically aligning the read/write head in the drive using grooves in the disk being sensed by an infrared LED and sensor (a form of visual servo). The magnetic head touches the recording surface, as it does in a normal flop... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Floptical-Technical aspects-At least two models were produced, one with a manual lever that mechanically ejected the disc from the drive, and another with a small pinhole into which a paperclip can be inserted, in case the device rejected or ignored SCSI eject commands. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Floptical-Market performance-Insite licensed the floptical technology to a number of companies, including Matsushita, Iomega, Maxell/Hitachi and others. A number of these companies later formed the Floptical Technology Association, or FTA, to try to have the format adopted as a replacement of standard floppy disks. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Floptical-Market performance-Around 70,000 Insite Flopticals are believed to have been sold worldwide in the product's lifetime. Silicon Graphics used them in their SGI Indigo and SGI Indy series of computer workstations. It was also reported that Commodore International had selected the Insite Floptical for its Amiga ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Floptical-Market performance-Iomega licensed the Floptical technology as early as 1989 and produced a compatible drive known as the Insider.
A few years later, a number of other companies introduced Floptical-like but incompatible systems: Iomega introduced their own ZIP-100 system storing 100 MB in 1994, which would g... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Floptical-Operating system support-Support of Floptical drives is present in all Microsoft Windows NT operating systems up to Windows 2000, where it figures as 20.8 MB drive format option in the FORMAT command options. The FORMAT command in Windows XP and newer lacks support of the Floptical drive. Floptical support ex... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Adaptive voltage scaling-Adaptive voltage scaling-Adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) is a closed-loop dynamic power minimization technique that adjusts the voltage supplied to a computer chip to match the chip's power needs during operation. Many computer chips, especially those in mobile devices or Internet of things devi... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Adaptive voltage scaling-Background-Technological advances have enabled very powerful and versatile computing systems to be implemented on smaller chips. As this allows a larger number of functions to take place in the same area, both current density and the associated power dissipation become more concentrated compare... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Adaptive voltage scaling-Advantages of AVS-Adaptive voltage scaling is a closed-loop DVS approach that evaluates different factors, such as process variations from device to device on a chip, temperature fluctuations during chip operations, and load variations, and establishes a voltage-frequency relationship for the c... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Adaptive voltage scaling-Comparison between DVS and AVS-The primary difference between DVS and AVS is that the former has an open loop control architecture whereas the latter is closed-loop. That is, in AVS there is direct feedback between the performance of the chip and the voltage provided to it. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Adaptive voltage scaling-Comparison between DVS and AVS-DVS A generic DVS system has a performance manager, a phase-locked loop and a voltage regulator. The performance manager uses a software interface to predict the performance requirements of the next task. Once the power requirements have been determined, the volta... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Adaptive voltage scaling-Comparison between DVS and AVS-AVS In closed-loop systems such as AVS, actual on-chip conditions are measured and used to determine the target voltage and frequency. Several different implementations of AVS have been developed. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Adaptive voltage scaling-Comparison between DVS and AVS-Critical Path Emulation One way to determine the voltage-frequency relationship of the chip is to use a critical path emulator. The emulator is tuned during the manufacturing process to closely model the behavior of the chip, and adapts to environmental and proces... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Adaptive voltage scaling-Comparison between DVS and AVS-Another type of emulator is a "delay chain" of inverters, NAND gates, wire segments, etc. The exact setting of the delay chain is determined during manufacturing after testing. The delay chain is then used to measure the time taken for a process to traverse the ch... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Adaptive voltage scaling-Comparison between DVS and AVS-Direct measurement of circuit behavior An alternative to simulating the behavior of the critical path is to measure circuit performance directly. One implementation of this approach, called Razor, is based on the idea that only a subset of input patterns will acti... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Adaptive voltage scaling-Comparison between DVS and AVS-Compensation for age-related performance degradation Over time, chips develop negative-bias temperature instability, which increases the voltage required to operate correctly. AVS can be used to mitigate this issue by increasing the voltage to match the new requir... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cytochrome c nitrite reductase-Cytochrome c nitrite reductase-Cytochrome c nitrite reductase (ccNiR) (EC 1.7.2.2) is a bacterial enzyme that catalyzes the six electron reduction of nitrite to ammonia; an important step in the biological nitrogen cycle. The enzyme catalyses the second step in the two step conversion of ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cytochrome c nitrite reductase-Cytochrome c nitrite reductase-This enzyme belongs to the family of oxidoreductases, specifically those acting on other nitrogenous compounds as donors with a cytochrome as acceptor. The systematic name of this enzyme class is ammonia:ferricytochrome-c oxidoreductase. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cabotegravir-Cabotegravir-Cabotegravir, sold under the brand name Vocabria among others, is a antiretroviral medication used for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. It is available in the form of tablets and as an intramuscular injection, as well as in an injectable combination with rilpivirine under the brand name Cabenuva.It ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cabotegravir-Medical uses-Cabotegravir in combination with rilpivirine is indicated for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) in adults. The combination injection is intended for maintenance treatment of adults who have undetectable HIV levels in the blood (viral load less than 50 copies/mL) with... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cabotegravir-Contraindications and interactions-Cabotegravir must not be combined with the drugs rifampicin, rifapentine, carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, phenytoin or phenobarbital, which induce the enzyme UGT1A1. These drugs significantly decrease cabotegravir concentrations in the body and thus may reduce its effective... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cabotegravir-Adverse effects-The most common side effects of the injectable combination therapy with rilpivirine are reactions at the injection site (in up to 84% of patients) such as pain and swelling, as well as headache (up to 12%) and fever or feeling hot (in 10%). For the tablets, headache and a hot feeling were s... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cabotegravir-Pharmacology-Mechanism of action Cabotegravir is an integrase strand transfer inhibitor. This means it blocks the HIV's enzyme integrase, thereby preventing its genome from being integrated into the human cells' DNA. As this is a necessary step for the virus to replicate, its further spread is hampered. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cabotegravir-Pharmacology-Pharmacokinetics When taken by mouth, cabotegravir reaches highest blood plasma levels after three hours. Taking the drug together with food slightly increases its concentrations in the blood, but this is not clinically relevant. After injection into the muscle, cabotegravir is slowly absorbed... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cabotegravir-Pharmacology-Pharmacogenomics UGT1A1 poor metabolizers have 1.3- to 1.5-fold increased cabotegravir concentrations in the body. This is not considered clinically significant. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cabotegravir-Chemistry-Cabotegravir is a white to off-white, crystalline powder that is practically insoluble in aqueous solutions under pH 9, and slightly soluble above pH 10. It is slightly acidic with a pKa of 7.8 for the enolic acid and 11.1 (calculated) for the carboxamide. The molecule has two asymmetric carbon a... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cabotegravir-Chemistry-Formulation In studies, the agent was packaged into nanoparticles (GSK744LAP) conferring a biological half-life of 21 to 50 days following a single dose. The marketed injection achieves its long half-life not via nanoparticles but with a suspension of the free cabotegravir acid. The tablets conta... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cabotegravir-History-Cabotegravir was examined in the clinical trials HPTN 083 and HPTN 084. In 2020, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion, recommending the granting of a marketing authorization for the medicinal product Vocabria int... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cabotegravir-Society and culture-Names Cabotegravir is the United States Adopted Name (USAN) and the international nonproprietary name (INN). | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cabotegravir-Research-Pre-exposure prophylaxis In 2020, results for some studies were released showing success in using injectable cabotegravir for long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with greater efficacy than the emtricitabine/tenofovir combination being widely used for PrEP at the time.The safety and efficac... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-COVID Moonshot-COVID Moonshot is a collaborative open-science project started in March 2020 with the goal of developing an un-patented oral antiviral drug to treat SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-COVID Moonshot-COVID Moonshot researchers are targeting the proteins needed to form functioning new viral proteins. They are particularly interested in proteases such as 3C-like protease (Mpro), a coronavirus nonstructural protein that mediates the breaking and replication of proteins.COVID Moonshot may ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Project history-Development of antiviral drugs is a complicated and time-consuming multistage process. The public sharing of information in the early stages of genome identification and protein structure identification has accelerated the process of searching for COVID-19 treatments and established a bas... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Project history-Genome identification On January 3, 2020, Chinese virologist Yong-Zhen Zhang of Fudan University and the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center received a test sample from Wuhan, China, where patients had a pneumonia-like illness. By January 5, Zhang and his team had sequenced a virus fro... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Project history-By January 11, 2020, Edward C. Holmes of the University of Sydney had Zhang's permission to publicly release the genome.
Protein structures With that information, structural biologists world-wide began examining its protein structures. Investigators from the Center for Structural Genomics... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Project history-Rao began coordinating with David Stuart and Martin Walsh at Diamond Light Source, the United Kingdom's synchrotron facility. The Diamond group was able to develop and release a high-resolution crystal structure of unbound Mpro.Approaches to accelerating drug development have been suggest... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Project history-Possible targets Identifying and recreating viral proteins in the lab is a first step to developing drugs to attack them and vaccines to protect against them. The COVID Moonshot initiative follows an approach to structure-based drug design in which researchers attempt to find a molecule t... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Project history-Fragment screening In collaboration with the University of Oxford and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, the facilities at Diamond Light were used to develop fragment screens utilizing crystallography and mass spectrometry.
Nir London's laboratory at the Weizmann Instit... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Project history-Designing candidates The open release of the data and its announcement on Twitter on March 7, 2020, mark a critical point in the formation of COVID Moonshot. The scientists shared their information and challenged chemists worldwide to use that information to design potential openly availa... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Project history-The design submissions were stored in Collaborative Drug Discovery's CDD Vault, a database used for large-scale management of chemical structures, experimental protocols and experimental results. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Project history-Alpha Lee and Matt Robinson brought computational expertise from PostEra to the project. PostEra used techniques from artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop analysis tools for computational drug discovery, chemical synthesis and biochemical assays. When COVID Moonshot's a... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Project history-Chris Schofield at the University of Oxford synthesized and tested 4 of the most promising of the novel designed peptides to demonstrate their ability to block and inhibit Mpro. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Project history-Freely available data from COVID Moonshot has also been used to assess the predictive ability of docking scores in suggesting the potency of SARS-CoV-2 M-pro inhibitors.To go beyond the design phase, possible drug candidates must be created and tested for both effectiveness and safety in ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Potential for antiviral treatments-COVID Moonshot anticipates that they will select three pre-clinical candidates by March 2022, to be followed by preclinical safety and toxicology testing and identification of needed chemistry, manufacturing and control (CMC) steps. Based on that data, the most promisin... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Open science-Among the many participants in the COVID Moonshot project are the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Diamond Light Source, Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel,Temple University,Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, PostEra, University of Johannesburg, and the Drugs... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
COVID Moonshot-Open science-Support for the project has come from a variety of philanthropic sources including the Wellcome Trust, COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator (CTA), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, LifeArc, and through crowdsourcing.Because COVID Moonshot is based in open science and shared open data, any drug t... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
GraphHopper-GraphHopper-GraphHopper is an open-source routing library and server written in Java and provides a web interface called GraphHopper Maps as well as a routing API over HTTP. It runs on the server, desktop, Android, iOS or Raspberry Pi. By default OpenStreetMap data for the road network and elevation data fr... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
GraphHopper-GraphHopper-GraphHopper can be configured to use different algorithms such as Dijkstra, A* and its bidirectional versions. To make routing fast enough for long paths (continental size) and avoid heuristical approaches GraphHopper uses contraction hierarchies by default. In the Java Magazine from Oracle, the... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
GraphHopper-Users-Notable users of GraphHopper are Rome2rio, Deutsche Bahn, Komoot, Gnome and Flixbus. Since February 2015, GraphHopper has been one of the APIs powering routing on the official OpenStreetMap website and version 0.4 was released shortly afterwards in March 2015. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
GraphHopper-Company-In January 2016, the developers of GraphHopper and jsprit formed the company GraphHopper GmbH.
GraphHopper Directions API The GraphHopper Directions API is an offering of the GraphHopper GmbH and includes a Geocoding API, a Distance Matrix API, a Map Matching API, an Isochrone API and a Route Optimi... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Karen Aardal-Karen Aardal-Karen I. Aardal (born 1961) is a Norwegian and Dutch applied mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and operations researcher. Her research involves combinatorial optimization, integer programming, approximation algorithms, and facility location, with applications such as positioning e... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Karen Aardal-Education and career-Aardal is originally from Norway. She earned her Ph.D. in 1992 at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Her dissertation, On the Solution of One and Two-Level Capacitated Facility Location Problems by the Cutting Plane Approach, was supervised by Laurence Wolsey. Her dissert... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Gliese 357 d-Gliese 357 d-Gliese 357 d is an exoplanet, considered to be a "Super-Earth" within the circumstellar habitable zone of its parent star. The planet orbits GJ 357, 31 light-years from the Solar System, The system is part of the Hydra constellation.The planet was discovered by the TESS team and announced in J... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Boat service-Boat service-A boat service is regularly scheduled transport using one or more boats, typically on a river, at a set charge, normally depending on the length of the trip and the type of passenger. The service may only be available for foot passengers. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Boat service-Examples-London, England: there is a boat service between Tate Britain and Tate Modern on the River Thames. London River Services (part of Transport for London) also provide a network of boat services on the Thames, for use by tourists and commuters.
Scotland: Caledonian MacBrayne ferry company operates a ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
NiCo riboswitch-NiCo riboswitch-The NiCo riboswitch is a riboswitch that senses nickel or cobalt ions. Thus, it is an RNA molecule that specifically binds these metal ions, and regulates genes accordingly. The riboswitch is thought to be a part of a system that responds to toxic levels of these metal ions, although the... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Environmental disease-Environmental disease-In epidemiology, environmental diseases are diseases that can be directly attributed to environmental factors (as distinct from genetic factors or infection). Apart from the true monogenic genetic disorders, which are rare, environment is a major determinant of the developmen... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Environmental disease-Environmental disease-There are many different types of environmental disease including: Disease caused by physical factors in the environment, such as skin cancer caused by excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation in sunlight Disease caused by exposure to toxic or irritant chemicals in the env... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Environmental disease-Environmental Diseases vs. Pollution-Related Diseases-Environmental diseases are a direct result from the environment. Meanwhile, pollution-related diseases are attributed to exposure to toxicants or toxins in the air, water, and soil. Therefore, all pollution-related disease are environmental dis... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Environmental disease-Urban Associated Diseases-Urban areas are highly dense regions that currently hold ~50% of the global population, a number expected to grow to 70% by 2050, and produce over 80% of the global GDP. These areas are known to have a higher incidence of certain diseases, which is of particular concern g... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Environmental disease-Chemicals-Metals Poisoning by lead and mercury has been known since antiquity. Other toxic metals or metals that are known to evoke adverse immune reactions are arsenic, phosphorus, zinc, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, manganese, nickel, cobalt, osmium, platinum, selenium, tellurium, thallium, uran... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Environmental disease-Chemicals-Halogens There are many other diseases likely to have been caused by common anions found in natural drinking water. Fluoride is one of the most common found in drier climates where the geology favors release of fluoride ions to soil as the rocks decompose. In Sri Lanka, 90% of the countr... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Environmental disease-Chemicals-Organic compounds Additionally, there are environmental diseases caused by the aromatic carbon compounds including : benzene, hexachlorocyclohexane, toluene diisocyanate, phenol, pentachlorophenol, quinone and hydroquinone.Also included are the aromatic nitro-, amino-, and pyridilium-der... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Environmental disease-Chemicals-The chemical asphyxiants are carbon monoxide, sulfuretted hydrogen and hydrogen cyanide.The irritant gases are sulfur dioxide, ammonia, nitrogen dioxide, chlorine, phosgene, and fluorine and its compounds, which include luroine and hydrofluoric acid, fluorspar, fluorapatite, cryolite, an... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Environmental disease-Categorization and surveillance-The U.S. Coast Guard has developed a Coast Guard-wide comprehensive system for surveillance of workplace diseases.The American Medical Association's fifth edition of the Current Medical Information and Terminology (CMIT) was used as a reference to expand the basic l... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Environmental disease-Notes-The Diseases of Occupations, Sixth Edition, Donald Hunter, C.B.E., D.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.P., Hodder and Stoughton, London. ISBN 0-340-22084-8, 1978.
Aviat Space Environ Med. 1991 Aug;62(8):795-7.
Use of sentinel health events (occupational) in computer assisted occupational health surveillance.... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Guard hair-Guard hair-Guard hair or overhair is the outer layer of hair of most mammals, which overlay the fur. Guard hairs are long and coarse and protect the rest of the pelage (fur) from abrasion and frequently from moisture. They are visible on the surface of the fur and usually lend a characteristic contour and co... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Guard hair-Description-Guard hair (overhair) is the top or outer layer of the coat. Guard hairs are longer, generally coarser, and have nearly straight shafts that protrude through the layer of softer down hair. The distal end of the guard hair is the visible layer of most mammal coats. The guard hair is spread over mo... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Guard hair-Types of guard hair-The three major types of guard hair recognized are awns, spines and bristles, although intermediates between these types are known. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Guard hair-Types of guard hair-Awn Awn hair is the most common type of guard hair, characterized by an expanded distal end, a thin base, and definitive growth. The shafts of the awn are thick and usually spindle-shaped (or blade- or shieldlike), thinning gradually at the tip. Spindle-shaped portion is hard and usually ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Guard hair-Types of guard hair-Bristles Bristles are firm, generally long hairs in equids and bovids, some carnivorans, etc., that that grow continuously and form manes. The mane often varies by sex, serving to distinguish the sexes (sexual dimorphism). For example, male lions have a collar of long, hard outline hair t... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Guard hair-Types of guard hair-Spines The guard hairs are sometimes modified to form defensive spines. Spines are the stiff, enlarged guard hairs that exhibit definitive growth and form the protective quills of echidnas, hedgehogs and especially porcupines. In porcupines, the cuticular scales are elongate and form barb... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cripple punk-Cripple punk-The cripple punk movement, also known as cpunk, crippunk, or cr*pple punk, is a social movement regarding physical disability rights that rejects inspirational portrayals of those with physical disabilities on the sole basis of their physical disability.Started by Tyler Trewhella in 2014 on Tu... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cripple punk-Origins-The cripple punk tag was started in 2014 by a Tumblr user;Tyler Trewhella, who posted a picture standing with a cane and a lit cigarette, with the caption "cripple punk" layered over the top, and the description "I'm starting a movement." The post would go on to be liked and reblogged by over 40,00... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Cripple punk-Ideology-Cripple punk ideology centers and prioritizes the experiences of physically disabled people over the pressure to conform to the standards that able-bodied people uphold. The movement is made explicitly by and for people with physical disabilities and aims to depict how they navigate the world, as ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Heat escape lessening position-Heat escape lessening position-The heat escape lessening position (HELP) is a human position to reduce heat loss while immersed in cold water. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Heat escape lessening position-Position-HELP is taught as part of the curriculum in Australia, North America, and Ireland for lifeguard and boating safety training. It involves positioning one's knees together and hugging them close to the chest using one's arms. Furthermore, groups of people can huddle together in thi... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
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