- Industry: Library & information science
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
Expression of the degree to which a measurement measures what it purports to measure.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Extent (usually expressed as a percentage) to which a method gives results that are free from false negatives.
Note 1: The fewer the false negatives, the greater the sensitivity.
Note 2: Quantitatively, sensitivity is the proportion of truly diseased persons in the screened population who are identified as diseased by the screening test.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Federal authority, established by the US Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) in 1980, to respond directly to releases or threatened releases (such as from landfills or waste disposal areas) of hazardous substances that may endanger health or welfare.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Fifteen minute time weighted average (TWA) exposure recommended by ACGIH which should not be exceeded at any time during a workday, even if the 8-hour TWA is within the threshold limit value-time-weighted average, TLV-TWA.
Note: Workers can be exposed to a maximum of four STEL periods per 8 hour shift, with at least 60 minutes between exposure periods.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Formation of irreversible cleavage complexes (also referred to as ‘suicide complexes’) leading to cell death.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Fraction or percentage of the total quantity of a substance extracted under specified conditions.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Functional junction between two neurons, where a nerve impulse is transmitted from one neuron to another.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Further metabolism of conjugated metabolites produced by phase II reactions.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Gene from one source that has been incorporated into the genome of another organism.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
