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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  |issued_by= [[United States Navy]] |specialty= Medical
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• Naloxone
  ...ioid overdose antidote Naloxone over counter 'will save lives' | publisher=The Guardian | date=29 January 2016 | author=Melissa Davey}}</ref> <!-- Medical uses -->
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• Metformin
  ...erns still preclude its widespread use in this setting. It is also used in the treatment of [[polycystic ovary syndrome]] and has been investigated for ot ...cs in the [[World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines]] (the other being [[glibenclamide]]).<ref name=WHOessential>(March 2009) {{PDFlin
  66 KB (8,976 words) - 16:47, 27 September 2010
• Nitrous oxide
  | SolubleOther = soluble in [[alcohol]], [[ether]], [[sulfuric acid]] ...[California]] allow nitrous oxide as an [[anesthetic]]. Also used in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Australia]]. -->
  61 KB (8,728 words) - 16:50, 27 September 2010
• Mercury (element)
  ...Frostburg State University| author=Senese, F}}</ref><ref name="Norrby" /> the others being [[caesium]], [[francium]], [[gallium]], and [[rubidium]]. ...tion from cinnabar. Cinnabar is highly toxic by ingestion or inhalation of the dust. [[Mercury poisoning]] can also result from exposure to soluble forms
  69 KB (10,077 words) - 21:35, 20 September 2010
• Propædia
  ...listing the staff members, advisors and contributors to all three parts of the ''Britannica''. ==The Outline of Knowledge==
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...en developed, both online and on [[optical media]]. Since the early 1930s, the ''Britannica'' has developed several "spin-off" products to leverage its re ...nica''. The first encyclopedia to include biographies of living people was the 64-volume ''[[Grosses Universal-Lexicon]]'' (published 1732–1759) of [[Jo
  61 KB (8,890 words) - 13:32, 19 September 2010
• Polybutylene
  ...-butene)''', '''PB-1''') is a [[polyolefin]] or saturated [[polymer]] with the chemical formula (C₄H₈)_n. It should not be ...and [[polyethylene]]. Because of its specific properties it is mainly used in pressure piping, flexible packaging, water heaters, compounding and hot mel
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• Sugar
  :''For the common table sugar, see [[sucrose]].'' [[Image:Sugar 2xmacro.jpg|right|thumb|Magnification of grains of [[sucrose]], the most common sugar.]]
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• Textile manufacturing
  ...ry of Textile manufacturing from 1750 to 1850 | Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution|Hand processing techniques today and before 1750 | Te ...xtile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods|hand techniques]] to achieve the same results.
  38 KB (5,949 words) - 10:16, 20 September 2010
• Hemp
  ...ut|industrial hemp|its psychoactive variant|Cannabis (drug)|the biology of the plant|Cannabis|other uses|Hemp (disambiguation)}} [[Image:Cannab2 new.png|thumb|right|The variety of appearances for cannabis. Only ''C. sativa'' (left) is suited fo
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• Workplace wellness
  ...to change employees' behavior in order to achieve better health and reduce the associated health risks. ...rticipation in these programs<ref>Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research Education Trust. (2007). [http://www.kff.org/insurance/7672/sections/ehbs07-6-18.cfm
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• Joseph LaDou
  ...se that trained more than 3,000 physicians (500 from developing countries) in [[occupational medicine]]. ...ph, ed. 1986. Special Issue on "The Microelectronics Industry," ''State of the Art Reviews: Occupational Medicine'' 1(1, January-March). Philadelphia: Han
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• Confined space
  In a wide variety of industrial environments workers may be expected to enter ...anding of the issues involved in entering and working in these spaces, and the management of potential hazards to ensure on-going worker health and safety
  59 KB (9,427 words) - 21:30, 20 September 2010
• Ethylene oxide
  ...of its special molecular structure, ethylene oxide easily participates in the [[addition reaction]], opening its cycle, and thus easily [[polymerisation| ...liquid.<ref name=Ullmann>Siegfried Rebsdat, Dieter Mayer "Ethylene Oxide" in Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2005.{{
  82 KB (11,709 words) - 21:31, 20 September 2010
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
  ...omplete oxidation to carbon dioxide (CO₂) and is often produced in domestic or industrial settings by motor vehicles and other gasoline-powere ...xyhemoglobin can revert to hemoglobin, but the recovery takes time because the HbCO complex is fairly stable.
  71 KB (9,723 words) - 21:31, 20 September 2010
• Workplace stress
  ...oor match between job demands and the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker.<ref name=NIOSH_Stressatwork>NIOSH (1999). [http://www.cdc.gov/niosh ...ed States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health}}</ref> or in extreme cases, [[karoshi|death]].
  16 KB (2,309 words) - 21:32, 20 September 2010
• Air safety
  ...n also be applied in the context of campaigns that inform the public as to the safety of [[air travel]]. ===United States===
  53 KB (7,764 words) - 21:33, 20 September 2010
• Implications of nanotechnology
  ...mplications of [[nanotechnology]]''' run the gamut from the [[Nanomedicine|medical]], [[ethical]], [[mental]], legal and environmental applications, to fields ...sks which were previously inaccessible due to physical restrictions, which in turn may reduce labor, land, or maintenance requirements placed on humans.
  38 KB (5,196 words) - 21:33, 20 September 2010
• Radiation dose reconstruction
  ...The extent to which the default values are used depends on the purpose of the reconstruction(s) being undertaken. ...n the standards published by international consensus organizations such as the [[International Commission on Radiological Protection]]<ref name=DRVid />.
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