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Drug trafficking is a global illicit trade involving the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws. It is entwined with street children.
Chloronome is the apparatus used to measure, regulate and applying chlorine in correct dosage.
Seroconversion rates to measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) in children given MMR vaccine at 9, 12 and 15 months of age were assessed so as to recommend the optimum age for vaccination.
Slow sand filters are used in water purification for treating raw water to produce a potable product. The use of sand filters to purify the water supply dates to 1804, when the owner of a bleachery in Paisley, Scotland, John Gibb, installed an experimental filter, selling his unwanted surplus to the public.
Orthotolidine test enables both free and combined chlorine in water to be determined with speed and accuracy. The test was developed in 1918.
It can be tested by candling and floating in saline water. Candling is a method used in embryology to study the growth and development of an embryo inside an egg.
Hard ticks are described as hard because of various hardened (sclerotized) plates on their body surface, especially the scutum (or dorsal plate). The scutum of some species contains colored pigment or enamel, making patterns known as ornamentation.
The acid-fast stain is a differential stain used to identify acid-fast organisms such as members of the genus Mycobacterium .
In psychiatry, confabulation is a memory error defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.
Ergot or ergot fungi refers to a group of fungi of the genus Claviceps. The most prominent member of this group is Claviceps purpurea (“rye ergot fungus”).