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Vital signs
Vital signs Definition Vital signs, or signs of life, include the following objective measures for a person: temperature, respiratory rate, heart beat (pulse), and blood pressure. When these values are not zero, they indicate that a person is alive. All of these vital signs... Read more |
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Vitality
Vitality Vitality is a name given that force or principle possessed by living things. In the case of human beings, controversy has long raged between those who interpret vitality mechanistically as the energy derived from food and oxygen intake and those who support theories of vitalism, a doctrine... Read more |
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Intake
INTAKE INTAKE. Intake is an umbrella term that refers to the act of taking something in. The term "intake" is often used in relation to food and drink, to describe how and how much is ingested. It also relates to behavior, since mental processing is involved in the action of eating and drinking.... Read more |
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Lung volume measurement
vital capacity The total amount of air that can be exhaled after maximum inspiration. The vital capacity of an average human is about 4.5 litres; in trained male athletes it can be 6 litres or more. However, some air always remains in the lungs (see residual volume).... Read more |
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Dick Vitale
Dick Vitale 1939- American sportscaster ESPN's "mouth that roars," Dick Vitale, is more than a college basketball announcer. He is a cult figure, showman, power broker, author, columnist, cameo actor, motivational speaker and frequent lightning rod for controversy. Players,... Read more |
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Group Theatre
Group Theatre organization formed in New York City in 1931 by Harold Clurman , Cheryl Crawford, and Lee Strasberg . Its founders, who had worked earlier with the Provincetown Players , wished to revive and redefine American theater by establishing a permanent company to present contemporary... Read more |
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hospital
hospital institution for the care of the sick, maintained by private endowment or public funds or both. General hospitals minister to all types of illness, while special hospitals are concerned with only one disease or group of diseases. Many hospitals are maintained solely for the treatment of... Read more |
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Jagadis Chandra Bose
Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was an Indian physicist and plant physiologist who did pioneering work in the measurement of plant growth and the responsiveness of plants to external stimuli. The life and scientific career of Jagadis Chandra Bose are rooted in... Read more |
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Iran, U.S. Military Involvement in
...The region's oil was vital to postwar energy policy. Iran also...stressed economic development and social reform rather than military...received $200 million in loans and credits to buy arms. That agreement angered conservative...necessary to defend its ... |
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Credit counselling - a social initiative to meet a vital need
...Lanka Colombo, Jan. 13 -- Credit counselling, or the provision...prudent use of funds obtained and credit availed and prevent them from...recovery of their businesses, is a vital aspect of maintaining the financial...at Rajagiriya. This meets a vital need in ... |
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Credit-Information Reporting: Why Free Speech Is Vital to Social...
...Gossip serves the vital function of creating...obligations even if no social mechanisms exert accountability...civil liberties. All social accountability mechanisms...different extent. Another social accountability mechanism is the ... |
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Credit Vital in China's Market Economy (2)
...cost of trading, ruined social conventions, and impaired...200 billion yuan. "Credit is the life-blood of...s credit system is of vital importance in guarding...specialists proposed laws on social credit in order to ... |
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Credit Vital in China's Market Economy (1)
"Credit" has never been so concerned...first time realized that a credit-defficient society cannot...calling for the building of a social credit system in response to...security and that without a sound social credit system, ... |
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Child tax credit vital but not a sacred cow
...policy, which grants taxpayers a credit for each child they have living...one of our country's major social failures. If you compare today...for a $500-per- child tax credit. Tax policies can affect behavior...these organizations perform social functions ... |
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CREDIT VITAL TO BOOSTING DEVELOPMENT IN MYANMAR, ECONOMIST SAYS AFTER...
...population dependent on agriculture, credit reform could help the Asian...have shown that the cost of credit is very high in Myanmar, with...because they could not get the credit to buy fertilizer and high quality...invitation of the Economic and Social ... |
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Credit Unions Vital To BarbadosA' Economy.
...December 6, 2011-: Credit Unions Vital To BarbadosA' Economy...committed to ensuring that credit unions maintain their...Barbados Cooperative and Credit Union League Ltd...significantly to the social, financial and economic... |
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Establishing Efficient Social Credit System in China from American Experience...
...credit pattern is that credit services are completely...only carries out the credit administration legislation in the social credit system, and the surveillance...everyone gets an SSN (social security number) ... |
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Credit history vital when borrowing money
...distressing because I do have a good credit rating and I think my business...likely to consider you a good credit risk because you cannot substantiate...repay is generally based on your credit history or credit rating. You...church groups, labor unions, ... |
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Credit system vital to nation
...and ensure sound economic and social development.Now that the blueprint...to try offering some kind of credit management, and the industry...behind the nation's first social credit system. Meanwhile...even harder to reestablish the social ... |
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