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yaw in aviation: see airplane ; airfoil .
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The Yaws Handbook of Properties for Environmental and Green Engineering: Adsorption Capacity, Water Solubility, Henry's Law Constant ...(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 12/1/2008; 109 words
; 9781933762159 The Yaws handbook of properties for environmental...water solubility, Henry's law constant... Yaws, Carl L. Gulf Publishing 2008 317 pages...over 4,000 hydrocarbons and chemicals, Yaws (chemical engineering, Lamar U., Texas...
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Missing Teh Tarik Halia: the president of the Malaysian Swiss Association, Yaw Hwa Chin who is a martial arts trainer with an open invitation from the King of Malaysia to teach the Royals the arts, talks to Swiss News.(Malaysia Special)
Magazine article from: Swiss News; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Yaw Hwa Chin is the current and seventh President of the Malaysian Swiss Association (MSA), founded in Zurich in 1992 by long-time Malaysian residents. He also owns and is the director of the Asiabudo Centre in Limmatalstrasse, an institute that trains those interested in Karate, Shao Lin Kung Fu,
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Disease strikes Pygmies.(Pulse)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication; 10/1/2004; 185 words
; ...African forest. The disease, called bush yaws or pian, is curable, but United Nations...difficulties treating the Pygmies. Bush yaws is caused by the bacterium Treponema pertenue...the Pygmies who are suffering from bush yaws are extremely poor and cannot afford soap...
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Recommendation regarding screening of refugee children for Treponemal infection.(Notice to Readers)
Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; 9/23/2005; 700+ words
; ...and Treponema carateum cause syphilis, yaws, bejel/endemic syphilis, and pinta, respectively...departments when diagnosed. Suspected cases of yaws or other non-venereal treponemal infections...Star Q 1992;45:228-37. (4.) Hopkins DR. Yaws in the Americas, 1950-1975. J Infect Dis...
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Yammering yam! A folktale from Ghana.(Short story)
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 5/1/2009; ; 379 words
; Kofi yawned and stretched. The village was still quiet. He whistled for his dog, picked up his stick, and set off to dig yams ahead of the rising sun. The dog barked and pawed at the ground. Hush, dog, ordered Kofi as he wrestled a giant yam from the red earth. Go away. Leave me alone! Kofi dropped
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Acela Express trains withdrawn. (World Report).
Magazine article from: International Railway Journal; 9/1/2002; 292 words
; AMTRAK has been forced to remove all 18 Acela Express high-speed trains from service on the Washington DC-New York-Boston Northeast Corridor, after finding defects in the power car yaw damper brackets. Some trains were later returned to service, but all trains in service are subject to extensive
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China's Ministry of Railways.(awards contract to GEC Alsthom for 11,000 dampers)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Railway Age; 10/1/1997; 34 words
; CHINA'S MINISTRY OP RAILWAYS has awarded a contract to GEC Alsthom for more than 11,000 DISPEN dampers (primary, secondary, and anti-yaw) to be installed on existing and new long distance passenger cars and locomotives.
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International Task Force for Disease Eradication.
Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; 4/6/1990; 700+ words
; ...the infectino altogether is not now feasible. Yaws and endemic syphilis. Eradication of yaws and endemic syphilis is not feasible under present...reliably distinguish the organisms that cause yaws, endemic syphilis, and pinta from those that cause...
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AMAN John Thaves HSL-42.(BRAVO Zulu)
Magazine article from: Mech; 6/22/2006; 50 words
; Airman Thaves discovered a missing cotter pin on the yaw channel of the mixing unit of Proud Warrior 430 during a 56-day inspection. A closer inspection showed the bolt had broken torque standards. Had this discrepancy gone unnoticed, it could have resulted in catastrophic failure of the
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For Amtrak, a long, hot summer. (Transit Update).(high-profile accident and serious technical problems)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Railway Age; 9/1/2002; 539 words
; These may not have been the worst of times for Amtrak, but they haven't been the best either, not for the railroad and not for its customers. Another high-profile accident and serious technical problems with the Acela Express high speed trainsets catapulted Amtrak back in the news scarcely before
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yaws
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...closely related to that causing syphilis . Yaws, however, is not a sexually transmitted...affecting the soles of the feet ( crab yaws ) and penetrating the bones with destructive changes. The first and second stages of yaws are easily treated with penicillin and...
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yaw, to
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...same direction as that in which the sea is running or the wind blowing, the effect of the rudder is diminished and the vessel yaws away from the desired course. A good helmsman can often anticipate the moment when a vessel is most likely to yaw, and correct...
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yaw
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
yaw (orig. naut.) deviate in the course. XVI. of unkn. orig.
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framboesia
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
framboesia yaws, characterized by raspberry-like excrescences. XIX. modL., f. (O)F. framboise raspberry. See -IA1 .
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pian
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing
pian (pi- ahn ) n. see yaws .
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