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• USS Bering Strait (AVP-34)
  |Ship out of service= ...ransferred to [[South Vietnam]] January 1, 1971<br/>Acquired by [[Republic of the Philippines]] April 1975<br/>Formally transferred to Philippines April
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• Ciprofloxacin
  ...ce K, Forrest A, Leslie J, Caldwell J |title=Absolute oral bioavailability of ciprofloxacin |journal=Antimicrob Agents Chemother. |volume=30 |issue=3 |pa | routes_of_administration = [[Route of administration#Enteral|Oral]], [[intravenous therapy|intravenous]], [[topic
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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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• Occupational injury
  ...s. Workplace injuries and illnesses in 2007. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor; 2008. Retrieved at: [http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/about.html About NIOSH ...cite web|url=http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/injury/|title=Traumatic Occupational Injuries|publisher=National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health|accessdate=
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• Confined space
  ...ments workers may be expected to enter a variety of areas and spaces, some of which, due to their particular characteristics will qualify as “Confined ...ssues involved in entering and working in these spaces, and the management of potential hazards to ensure on-going worker health and safety.
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• National Occupational Research Agenda
  ...mediate attention based on the number of workers affected, the seriousness of the hazard, and the likelihood that new safety information and approaches c ...SH and its partners develop and integrate research to prevent occupational injuries and illnesses for over 150 million U.S. workers.<ref>[http://www.cdc.gov/ni
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• SENSOR-Pesticides
  [[File:SENSOR logo.jpg|right|alt=Green and white logo of a person spraying crops with pesticides.|thumb|SENSOR-Pesticides Logo]] ...ta from several different sources using a standard case definition and set of variables. This information is then forwarded to the program headquarters
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• Mine Safety and Health Administration
  |jurisdiction = [[Federal government of the United States]] ...the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health, and the head of MSHA.
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• Health and safety regulations in the United Kingdom
  ...[occupational safety and health|health, safety and welfare]] at work. Many of these give effect to [[European Union]] [[directive (European Union)|direct ...ime]], punishable on [[summary conviction]] with a [[fine (penalty)|fine]] of up to £400. If convicted on [[indictment]] in the [[Crown Court]], an offe
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• Electric shock
  ...e. Note the slight branching redness traveling up his leg from the effects of the current. ...ents approaching 100 mA are lethal if they pass through sensitive portions of the body.<ref>[http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/JackHsu.shtml Electric C
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• Mining accident
  A '''mining accident''' is an [[accident]] that occurs in the process of [[mining]] minerals. ...today occur in developing countries, especially [[China]], and rural parts of developed countries.
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• Nail gun
  ...losive charge]]. Nail guns have in many ways replaced [[hammer]]s as tools of choice among builders. ...s to be loaded by hand. Nail guns vary in the length and gauge (thickness) of nails they can drive.
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• List of eponymous fractures
  ...'Fracture''' || '''Named after''' || '''Description''' || '''Mechanism of injury''' || '''Reference''' ...0170-Anterior%20Dislocation/antdislocatecorrect.htm ''Anterior Dislocation of the Shoulder''] at LearningRadiology.com
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• List of genetic disorders
  ...n, causal type of [[mutation]] and the [[chromosome]] involved. The [[list of human genes]] includes genes not listed here, which also affect predisposit *D - [[Deletion (genetics)|Deletion]] of a gene or genes
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• List of fictional diseases
  ...ed Death.<center>''<center>[[The Masque of the Red Death (film)|The Masque of the Red Death]]'', picture by [[Roger Corman]], 1964.</center>]] Items in this list are followed by a brief description of symptoms and other details.
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• Cerebral blood flow
  ...the tissue becomes ischemic, potentially resulting in damage to and death of [[neuron|brain cells]]. Medical professionals must take steps to maintain p ...ical concentrations. For example, they dilate in response to higher levels of [[carbon dioxide]] in the blood.<ref name="Kandel"/>
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• Cushing reflex
  ...itation needed|date=April 2008}} It was first described by [[United States of America|American]] [[neurosurgery|neurosurgeon]] [[Harvey Cushing]] in 1902 ...CO2. The central chemoreceptors respond with a swift and potent activation of the [[sympathetic nervous system]].
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• Sulindac
  '''Sulindac''' is a [[non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug]] of the arylalkanoic acid class that is marketed in the UK & U.S. by [[Merck & ...[[COX-2 inhibitor]] class {{Fact|date=February 2007}}. The exact mechanism of its NSAID properties is unknown, but it is thought to act on enzymes COX-1
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• Xenon
  ...tive, xenon can undergo a few [[chemical reaction]]s such as the formation of [[xenon hexafluoroplatinate]], the first [[noble gas compound]] to be synth ...an, A. A.; Nedostup, V. I.; Veksler, L. S.|title=Thermophysical properties of neon, argon, krypton, and xenon|year=1988|edition=English-language
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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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