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• Hydroelectric
  ...ns of large-scale [[grid energy storage]] and improve the daily [[capacity factor]] of the generation system. Hydroelectric plants with no reservoir capacity ...able water supply. In some installations the water flow rate can vary by a factor of 10:1 over the course of a year.
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• Ciprofloxacin
  ...Er |author4=Hayslett, J |author5=Lukacs, S |author6=Goldstein, S |author7=Factor, S |author8=Jones, J |author9=Ridzon, R |first=Group |last2=Cdc Adverse Eve ...ies have shown that repeated use of fluoroquinolones predicts an increased risk of infection with fluoroquinolone-resistant pneumococci....”<ref>{{Cite j
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• Metformin
  ...igated for other diseases where [[insulin resistance]] may be an important factor. ...on]]s, but otherwise, there is no [[statistical significance|significant]] risk. Metformin helps reduce [[low-density lipoprotein|LDL cholesterol]] and [[t
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• Fluoxetine
  ...715">{{cite journal |author=Hansen L, Kingdom D |title=Akathisia as a risk factor for suicide |journal=The British journal of psychiatry: the journal of ment ...arry a [[black box warning]] stating that antidepressants may increase the risk of suicide in persons younger than 25. This warning is based on statistical
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• Aspirin
  ...ks]], [[stroke]]s, and [[thrombus|blood clot]] formation in people at high risk for developing blood clots.<ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1056/NEJM198308183 ...ses of aspirin may be given immediately after a heart attack to reduce the risk of another heart attack or of the death of cardiac tissue.<ref name="antico
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• Omeprazole
  ...r ''[[Helicobacter pylori]]''. Infection by ''H. pylori'' is the causative factor in the majority of [[peptic ulcer|peptic]] and [[duodenal ulcer]]s. <ref>ht ...JD, Epstein S, Metz DC |title=Long-term Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy and Risk of Hip Fracture |journal=JAMA |volume=296 |issue=24 |pages=2947–53 |year=
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• Hydralazine
  ...induction of hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha, vascular endothelial growth factor, and angiogenesis by inhibition of prolyl hydroxylases |journal=Circ. Res. ...upus Erythematosus]]<ref>Schoonen WM,et al. Do selected drugs increase the risk of lupus? A matched case-control study. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2010 Oct;70(4)
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• Dopamine
  ...olactin secretion, dopamine is occasionally called '''prolactin-inhibiting factor''' ('''PIF'''), '''prolactin-inhibiting hormone''' ('''PIH'''), or '''prola ...ts increase the creative drive of idea generation. This has led to a three-factor model of [[creativity]] involving the [[frontal lobe]]s, the [[temporal lob
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• Mercury (element)
  ...is not allowed aboard an aircraft under most circumstances because of the risk of it forming an amalgam with exposed aluminium parts in the aircraft.<ref ...name="GREEN"/> In addition, worker health in functioning mines is at high risk.
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• Zidovudine
  .../benefit ratio, with the certain toxicity of HIV infection outweighing the risk of drug toxicity. One of AZT's side effects is [[anemia]], a common complai ...bination with other antiretroviral medications to substantially reduce the risk of HIV infection following a significant exposure to the virus (such as a n
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• Morphine
  *raised intracranial pressure, including head injury (risk of worsening respiratory depression) ...970s and '80s, evidence suggesting that opiate drug addicts show increased risk of infection (such as increased [[pneumonia]], [[tuberculosis]], and [[Huma
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• Diazepam
  ...iciencies ([[hepatitis]] and liver [[cirrhosis]] decrease elimination by a factor of 2) ...Concomitant use of other central nervous system depressants increases this risk. The smallest possible effective dose should be used for this group of pati
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• Temazepam
  ...iciencies ([[hepatitis]] and liver [[cirrhosis]] decrease elimination by a factor of 2) ...s there is a risk of [[sleep apnea|apnea]] and/or [[cardiac arrest]]. This risk is increased when temazepam is given concomitantly with other drugs that de
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• Wattle and daub
  ...materials, creating cracks between panel and the surrounding frame. This factor caused wattle and daub structures to be draughty and required constant repa ...se of timber framing diminished in the 17th and 18th centuries due to fire risk and the move to stone and brick housing. When half timbering become less r
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• Polycarbonate
  <tr><td>[[Dissipation factor]] @ 1 [[Megahertz|MHz]]</td><td>0.01</td></tr> ...rature concerning low-dose effects of bisphenol A shows the need for a new risk assessment |journal=Environ. Health Perspect. |volume=113 |issue=8 |pages=9
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• Building insulation materials
  ...ple, a 1-inch layer of closed-cell foam provides about the same insulation factor as 2&nbsp;inches of open-cell foam. * Fibers do not cause itchiness, no cancer risk from airborne fibers
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• Textiles of Mexico
  ...he imitations to be form of pirating and puts native weavers livlihoods at risk. Organizations such as this work to have indigenous designs marked as intan ...r of other countries in Asia and Central America have gone down. One major factor behind this is Mexico’s relatively expensive labor costs.<ref name="costo
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• Kerosene
  The widespread availability of cheaper kerosene was the principal factor in the precipitous decline in the [[whaling]] industry in the mid-to-late 1 }}</ref> Kerosene was also a fire risk; in 1880, nearly two out of every five New York City fires were caused by d
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• Iron
  ...otential for biological toxicity.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Tumor necrosis factor-α-induced iron sequestration and oxidative stress in human endothelial cel ...11113729.htm | title = Eating Red Meat Will Not Increase Colorectal Cancer Risk, Study Suggests | publisher = ScienceDaily | date = June 13, 2007| accessda
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• Medetomidine
  ...apezine) would not allow the administration of the inductive agent without risk to the veterinarian. As such the use of alpha-two agonists is only recomme ...to be given. It provides a good degree of muscle relaxation, an important factor in Ketamine based anaethesia protocols.
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• Fever
  ...include [[interleukin-8]], [[tumor necrosis factor-α]], [[tumor necrosis factor-β]], [[macrophage inflammatory protein]]-α and macrophage inflammatory pr ...such as interleukin 1 (IL-1), interleukin 6 (IL-6), and the tumor necrosis factor-alpha. In other words, exogenous factors cause release of endogenous factor
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• Workplace violence
  ...iolence resulting from industrial disputes]], although this is not a major factor in most incidents. ...of the violence we will be better able to eliminate, reduce or manage the risk of it occurring. There are four main types of work related violence:
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• Hearing conservation program
  ...hted reduction, one must subtract 7 db. OSHA also recommends a 50% safety factor, therefore the final OSHA recommended reduction would be (NRR-7)/2.<ref>CPL ...properly trained on how to follow a hearing conservation program, then the risk of noise-induced hearing loss is reduced. OSHA requires said training to b
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• Industrial noise
  ...(dB), known as an [[exposure action value]]), but it also acts as a causal factor for [[stress (medicine)|stress]] and raises systolic [[blood pressure]]. Additionally, it can be a causal factor in [[work accident]]s, both by masking hazards and warning signals, and by
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• Job Safety Analysis
  ...d Analysis and Risk Assessment. The purpose of a JSA is to ensure that the risk of each step of a task is reduced to ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicabl Some type of risk analysis should be performed before every job. Some tasks are routine and t
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• Laser safety
  ...safety''' is safe design, use and implementation of lasers to minimise the risk of [[laser]] accidents, especially those involving eye injuries. Since even ...ause they can burn the retina of the eye, or even the skin. To control the risk of injury, various specifications, for example ANSI Z136 in the US and IEC
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• Safety climate
  As part of overall risk and safety management, employers often include components designed to creat ...an be objectively monitored as a predicitive indicator of potential safety risk. These components include: situational, behavioural, and psychological aspe
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• Cancer
  Cancer affects people at all ages with the risk for most types increasing with age.<ref name="Cancer Research UK">{{cite we ...Chesson A, ''et al.'' |title=European Consensus Statement on Lung Cancer: risk factors and prevention. Lung Cancer Panel |journal=CA: a cancer journal for
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• Air safety
  ...100 passengers, then the passenger miles are 100 times higher, making the risk 100 times lower. The number of deaths per passenger mile on commercial airl ...st were discovered before they caused a catastrophic failure. Delamination risk is as old as composite material. Even in the 1940s, several [[Yakovlev Yak-
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• Occupational safety and health
  ...laws governing asbestos and fire safety management embrace the concept of risk assessment. *A [[risk]] is a combination of the probability that a particular outcome will occur
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• Arsenic
  ...|first4=S.|issue=10}}</ref> Studies investigating arsenic as an epigenetic factor will help in developing precise biomarkers of exposure and susceptibility. ...A. |last4=Chen |first4=R. |last5=Feinleib |first5=M. |title=Arsenic cancer risk confounder in southwest Taiwan data set.}}</ref> suggested that significant
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• Cadmium
  ...10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01453.x|title = Cadmium blocks hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1-mediated response to hypoxia by stimulating the proteasome-dependen ...d sufficient iron and other mineral levels. Thus, while cadmium is a major factor in the Itai Itai disease in Japan, most researchers have concluded that it
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• Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
  *Protecting persons, other than persons at work, against [[risk]]s to health or safety arising out of or in connection with the activities ..., so far as is '''reasonably practicable''', [[safety|safe]] and without [[risk]]s to [[health]];
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• Wildfire
  ...nd regional weather patterns such as high-pressure ridges can increase the risk and alter the behavior of wildfires dramatically.<ref> ...by fires. Because they are highly flammable, they can increase the future risk of fire, creating a [[positive feedback loop]] that increases fire frequenc
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• Lead poisoning
  ...er ones; thus children in older housing with chipping paint are at greater risk. Prevention of lead exposure can range from individual efforts (e.g. remo ...g with heavy machinery in the background.|Battery recycling workers are at risk for lead exposure.<ref name="Brodkin07-CMAJ">{{Cite pmid|17200393 }}</ref>
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• Mining
  ...g for minerals and precious metals, along with [[ranching]], was a driving factor in the [[Westward Expansion]] to the Pacific coast. With the exploration of ...ublications/papers/2001/pdf/Weber-Fahr(T-8).pdf Mining, Sustainability and Risk:World Bank Group Experiences].</ref> Between 1955 and 1990 it provided abou
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• Fire Safety Journal
  ...s), people/fire interactions (physical, physiological, and psychological), risk, management, legislation, and education.<ref>[http://www.elsevier.com/wps/f .../ref> According to the ''[[Journal Citation Reports]]'', its 2009 [[impact factor]] is 1.259.
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• John Howard (public health administrator)
  ...enges used to be those that normally would have had a very widespread risk factor associated with them - chemical agents and physical agents like [[asbestos]
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• Partition coefficient
  ...hemicals in general have longer half lives and therefore display increased risk of adverse environmental impact. In [[metallurgy]], the partition coefficient is an important factor in determining how different impurities are distributed between molten and
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• Partial pressure
  ...librium shift. In some cases, the reaction kinetics may be the over-riding factor to consider. ...absolute and of 210 minutes at 1.2 bar absolute. Oxygen toxicity becomes a risk when these oxygen partial pressures and exposures are exceeded. The partial
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• Acid dissociation constant
  ...roton-donating power of toluenesulfonic acid in acetonitrile solution by a factor of nearly 800.<ref> ...is negative −''T''Δ''S''^{[[File:StrikeO.png]]} is the dominant factor, which determines that Δ''G''^{[[File:StrikeO.png]]} is positive.
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• Sulfuric acid
  ...[[Self-ionization of water|water]], K_w is 10⁻¹⁴, a factor of 10¹⁰ (10 billion) smaller. ...mucous membranes: this ceases rapidly after exposure, although there is a risk of subsequent [[pulmonary edema]] if tissue damage has been more severe. At
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• List of dog diseases
  ...ease varies from mild to severe, depending on the amount of von Willebrand factor present in the dog. Signs include spontaneous bleeding and excessive bleedi ...imary in dogs. The incidence of primary tumors is 14.5 per 100,000 dogs at risk. Types include [[meningioma]], [[astrocytoma]], [[oligodendroglioma]], and
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• Splenic infarction
  ...virus infection]]. The patient was also found to be heterozygous for the [[Factor V Leiden]] mutation. ...n. Splenectomy may be warranted for persistent pseudocysts due to the high risk of subsequent rupture.<ref name="pmid8371303">{{cite journal |author=Pachte
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• Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  ...vere disabling [[auto-immune disease]] and [[cardiovascular disease]], the risk of fatal complications appears too high to gain wider acceptance.<ref>{{cit ...blood cell production. Autologous transplants have the advantage of lower risk of infection during the immune-compromised portion of the treatment since t
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• Vasodilation
  | [[Endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor|EDHF]] || ? | [[Platelet activating factor]] (PAF) || ||
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• Asymmetric dimethylarginine
  ...ginine dimethylaminohydrolase]] (DDAH). The role of homocysteine as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease is suggested to be mediated by homocysteine down
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• Portopulmonary hypertension
  ...Vol 178. pp 637–643, 2008</ref><ref name=Kawut>Kawut SM et al. Clinical Risk Factors for Portopulmonary Hypertension. Hepatology 2008;48</ref> Typically ...chest pain and syncope.<ref>Martinex-Palli et al. Liver Transplant in High Risk Patients. Transplant Proceedings 2005;37:3861-3864</ref> Patients tend to h
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• Tetrahydrocannabinol
  ...Groopman JE |title=Delta9-Tetrahydrocannabinol inhibits epithelial growth factor-induced lung cancer cell migration in vitro as well as its growth and metas ...4086.63}}</ref> A 2005 paper from the Dunedin study suggested an increased risk in the development of psychosis linked to polymorphisms in the COMT gene.<r
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• Marijuana and the brain
  ...dence among heavy users <ref>Chabrol, H., Massot, E., & Mullet, E. (2004). Factor structure of cannabis related beliefs in adolescents. ''Addictive Behaviors ...n adulthood. Females who were heavy users in adolescence were at a greater risk of experiencing poverty, having a lower income at 42 years old, and having
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