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Immunologic tolerance
immunological tolerance (im-yoo-nŏ-loj-ik-ăl) n. a failure of the body to distinguish between materials that are ‘self’, and therefore to be tolerated, and those that are `not self', against which it mounts an immune response.... Read more |
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fault-tolerant system
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Zero Tolerance
ZERO TOLERANCE The policy of applying laws or penalties to even minor infringements of a code in order to reinforce its overall importance and enhance deterrence. Since the 1980s the phrase zero tolerance has signified a philosophy toward illegal conduct that favors strict imposition of penalties... Read more |
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Shelfords law of tolerance
Shelford's law of tolerance A law, proposed by V. E. Shelford, that states that the presence and success of an organism depend upon the extent to which a complex of conditions are satisfied. The absence or failure of an organism can be controlled by the qualitative or quantitative deficiency or... Read more |
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ecotype
ecotype A locally adapted population of a widespread species. Such populations show minor changes of morphology and/or physiology, which are related to habitat and are genetically induced. Nevertheless they can still reproduce with other ecotypes of the same species. Heavy-metal-tolerant ecotypes of... Read more |
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Toleration
TOLERATION. Toleration is a policy or attitude toward something that is not approved and yet is not actively rejected. The word comes from the Latin tolerare (to bear or endure), suggesting a root meaning of putting up with something. There is no single and widely accepted definition of the term,... Read more |
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tolerance
tolerance 1. The ability of an organism to withstand extreme variations in environmental conditions, such as drought. 2. The build-up of resistance to drugs or other chemicals (such as pesticides), which occurs after prolonged use or application. Increasingly large doses of the chemical are required... Read more |
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Negative capability
NEGATIVE CAPABILITY Wilfred Bion, having discovered the importance of the mother's (and by association, the analyst's) capacity to tolerate the infant's (and patient's) projective identifications, sought a source for this tolerance. He reasoned that in analysis, the analyst must possess the... Read more |
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Nutrition hotline
...C may improve glucose tolerance and blood-sugar levels...600 mcg each day that show significant improvement...Aesculus hippocastanum (horse chestnut), and Ruscus aculeatus...veins and capillaries. Horse chestnut has been ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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From the tree tops, check out stress and size.(House-Home)
...Assessment Selection for Stress Tolerance Planting." The list is available...soil and is salt sensitive. Red horse chestnut (Aesculus x carnea ). A moderately...pollution. One of the first trees to show fall color, red maples have a pyramidal... |
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Plant stress is showing up now
...than others. The term "drought tolerance" refers to plants that last longer...planted last spring is quite likely to show stress now because it was summer...others. A dramatic example now is horse chestnut blight; it may not kill otherwise... |
 "Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH)")
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TOWN AND COUNTRY; WINTER STEPS CAN PREVENT DAMAGE TO TREES
...Plants that are damaged by road salt show the following symptoms: marginal...Norway maple, honey locust, horse chestnut, green ash, Colorado spruce, Austrian pine and mountain ash have high tolerance to road salt. Trees to avoid are... |
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Plants hit by de-icing salt need special care to survive
...dry weather, when leaf margins show burn or scorch. Salt spray and...and shrubs that have better salt tolerance. Some of these are white and red...mugo pine, Japanese tree lilac, horse chestnut, birch, spirea, clethra and Russian... |
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NatraGel delivery system has anti-aging benefits.(Anti-Aging & Cosmeceutical...
...extract, lactic acid, mango butter, horse chestnut and triglycerides. The company...soluble agents such as vitamin C show an almost immediate transfer to...be apprehensive, enhancing their tolerance of any injection therapies. NatraGel... |
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Trees point us to the immutable and show us how to grow old gracefully.
...drugs. In a world of such little tolerance and self-focus, we should leave...that there are no tree spirits. Horse chestnuts are one of my favourite trees...hundred years, but the humility it shows in life is a lesson for us all... |
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A NATION CRIPPLED BY ELF 'N' SAFETY; How the health and safety gestapo are...
...Boston cancelling its annual flower show because it could not afford to...those virtues of liberty and tolerance are being slaughtered by a bureaucratic...while playing - because they feared horse chestnuts could be used as 'offensive weapons... |
 "The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)")
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Arts group to host public show
...Crafts house, 20 S. Chestnut St. The house is...and national art shows, reflect the range...of my old Morgan horse's coat or move...retain his wary tolerance and I want the old...landscapes. Gilkey shows at major shows in ... |
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Singing Cowboy Gene Autry Dies at 91; Actor-Businessman's Financial Empire...
...values such as respect, tolerance of others, honesty and...Wayne. Mr. Autry and his chestnut "wonder horse" Champion began withdrawing from show business in the mid-1950s...Autry temporarily left show business to serve in the... |
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