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In cardiac physiology, the Levine grading scale is a numeric scoring system to characterize the intensity or the loudness of a heart murmur. The eponym is from researcher Samuel A. Levine who studied the significance of systolic heart murmurs. [ 1 ]
Insurgence Records is a Canadian-based independent record label founded in 2000. The street music label specializes in rock music subgenres associated with the skinhead subculture , including Oi! , street punk and hardcore .
Scale armour is armour in which the individual scales are sewn or laced to a backing by one or more edges and arranged in overlapping rows resembling the scales of a fish/reptile or roofing tiles. [3] The scales are usually assembled and strapped by lacing or rivets. Lorica squamata is an ancient Roman armour of this type. [1]
Archangel Michael is commonly depicted holding scales to weigh the souls of people on Judgement Day. The weighing of souls ( Ancient Greek : psychostasia ) [ 1 ] is a religious motif in which a person's life is assessed by weighing their soul (or some other part of them) immediately before or after death in order to judge their fate . [ 2 ]
This parameter provides a more accurate assessment of heart function relative to the size of the individual, as opposed to absolute cardiac output alone. Cardiac index is crucial in assessing patients with heart failure and other cardiovascular conditions, providing insight into the adequacy of cardiac function in relation to the individual's ...
An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority. [1] [2] [3] The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric nature: small irregular forces face a large, well-equipped, regular military force state adversary. [4]
The first large-scale usage by an insurgency of the Kalashnikov series weapons was during the Vietnam War, when massive numbers of Soviet, Chinese and Eastern Bloc-produced AKs and RPKs, along with limited numbers of PKs and SVD-63s, were provided by communist countries to North Vietnam, which supplied them to the South Vietnamese Viet Cong ...