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• Dopamine
  ...hormone is to inhibit the release of [[prolactin]] from the anterior lobe of the [[pituitary]]. ...ase]] and dopa-responsive [[dystonia]], [[L-DOPA]], which is the precursor of dopamine, can be given because it can cross the [[blood-brain barrier]].
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• Morphine
  *[[Cardiac arrest]], cessation of [[Cardiac cycle|heartbeat]], or [[heart failure]] *[[Flushing (physiology)|Flushing]] of the [[face]]
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• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
  ...ve special value and interest to modern scholars as [[cultural artifact]]s of the 19th and early 20th centuries. ...tors were American, and a New York office was established to run that side of the enterprise.{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}}
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  | image = {{Double image|center|Spine of Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica.jpg|49|Americanized Encyclopædia Bri | image_caption = New American edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1899)
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• Joseph McCabe
  ...now [[St Bonaventure's Catholic Comprehensive School]]) for the remainder of his priestly education. In 1890 he was ordained into the priesthood with th ...ly and educational duties, until in October 1895 when he was put in charge of the newly founded Franciscan college in [[Buckingham]], (which is now [[St
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• Propædia
  ...es listing the staff members, advisors and contributors to all three parts of the ''Britannica''. ==The Outline of Knowledge==
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• Mortimer J. Adler
  ...ewanted=all William Grimes, "Mortimer Adler, 98, Dies; Helped Create Study of Classics," New York Times, June 29, 2001]</ref><ref name="Angelicum">[http: ...d to school to take writing classes at night where he discovered the works of men he would come to call heroes: [[Aristotle]], [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Joh
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• Carbon monoxide poisoning
  ...xide poisoning|Image=Carbon-monoxide-3D-vdW.png|Caption=Spacefilling model of a [[carbon monoxide]] [[molecule]]|DiseasesDB=2020|ICD10={{ICD10|T|58||t|51 ...eople to detect. Carbon monoxide is a product of [[incomplete combustion]] of organic matter with insufficient [[oxygen]] supply to enable complete oxida
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• Workplace safety
  ...afety & health''' is a category of [[management]] responsibility in places of employment. To ensure the safety and health of workers, managers establish a focus on safety that can include elements suc
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• Work–life balance
  ==History== ...y an intense, competitive work environment. Long-term loyalty and a "sense of corporate community" have been eroded by a performance culture that expects
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• Ergonomics
  ...age:Computer Workstation Variables.jpg|thumb|240px|Ergonomics: the science of designing the job, equipment, and workplace to fit the worker.]] '''Ergonomics''' is the science of designing jobs, equipment and workplaces to fit workers. Proper ergonomic d
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• Occupational safety and health
  ...rs, employers, customers, suppliers, nearby communities, and other members of the public who are impacted by the workplace environment. It may involve i ...logical capabilities; and, to summarize, the adaptation of work to man and of each man to his job."
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• Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
  ...Centre for the Working Environment in [[Denmark]], the National Institute of Occupational Health in [[Norway]] | history = 1975-present
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• Work–life balance (United States)
  == United States history == ...jobs were covered in early legislation and most had no limit to the number of hours their employers could have them work.
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• Behavior-based safety
  '''Behavior-based safety (BBS)''' is the ”application of science of behavior change to real world problems”.<ref>Staff. “How Does Behaviora ...behavior-based safety “empowers” employees and addresses the dynamics of injury prevention.” Risk & Insurance.'''15'''(12, 01 Oct) p 66</ref> At i
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• List of prizes named after people
  This is a list of '''[[prize]]s''' that are '''named after people'''. ''For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see [[Lists of etymologies]]''.
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• List of mental disorders as defined by the DSM and ICD
  The following is a '''list of mental disorders as defined by the DSM and ICD'''. ...version. This list contains conditions currently recognised descriptions of mental disorders as defined by these two documents.
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• Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
  ...ted title -->].</ref> It is currently regulated in Australia, Canada, most of Europe and in the US. GHB as the [[sodium]] salt, known as sodium oxybate, ...sium gamma-hydroxybutyrate (K.GHB).</ref> GHB is also produced as a result of fermentation, and so is found in small quantities in some beers and wines.
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• History of general anesthesia
  ...on (re-enactment).jpg|thumb|Re-enactment of the first public demonstration of [[general anesthesia]] by [[William T. G. Morton]] on October 16, 1846 in t ...physicians and other Eastern scholars maintained and advanced the practice of [[Medicine in medieval Islam|medicine]] in the [[Arab World]] during the mi
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• Ted Kaczynski
  ...ction_penalty = [[Life imprisonment|Life in prison without the possibility of parole]] | occupation = Former [[professor|assistant professor]] of [[mathematician|mathematics]]
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