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  2. Starvation - Wikipedia

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    In a leaner person, the fat reserves are depleted faster, and the protein, sooner, therefore death occurs sooner. [citation needed] Ultimately, the cause of death is in general cardiac arrhythmia or cardiac arrest, brought on by tissue degradation and electrolyte imbalances. Conditions like metabolic acidosis may also kill starving people. [18]

  3. Refeeding syndrome - Wikipedia

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    During refeeding, insulin secretion resumes in response to increased blood sugar, resulting in increased glycogen, fat, and protein synthesis. Refeeding increases the basal metabolic rate . The process requires phosphates , magnesium and potassium which are already depleted, and the stores rapidly become used up.

  4. Résumé - Wikipedia

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    A résumé or resume (or alternatively resumé), [a] [1] is a document created and used by a person to present their background, skills, and accomplishments. Résumés can be used for a variety of reasons, but most often are used to secure new jobs, whether in the same organization or another.

  5. Résumé parsing - Wikipedia

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    This method does not work for resumes because the parser needs to "understand the context in which words occur and the relationship between them." [4] For example, if the word "Harvey" appears on a resume, it could be the name of an applicant, refer to the college Harvey Mudd, or reference the company Harvey & Company LLC. The abbreviation MD ...

  6. Force-feeding - Wikipedia

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    A suffragette is force-fed in HM Prison Holloway in the UK during hunger strikes for women's suffrage, approximately 1911. [1]Force-feeding is the practice of feeding a human or animal against their will.

  7. Feed a cold, starve a fever - Wikipedia

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    His idea was the fever was the disease, and starving the sick person would starve the disease. In 1574, John Withals published "Fasting is a great remedie of feuer" in a dictionary. The adage states that eating will help cure a cold ; not eating will help cure a fever .

  8. Category:Writing systems without word boundaries - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems without word boundaries do not have explicit, systematic visible markers to distinguish the ending of one word and the beginning of another. In the ancient period until around 1000 AD, alphabets were written scriptio continua without spaces or special marks separating words. These cases of continuous writing are discussed there.

  9. Life as We Knew It (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Mrs. Wayne: Megan's mother, who worries that she is starving herself, as she does not share her religious beliefs. Brandon Erlich: An ice skater from the town who is training for the Olympics and whom Miranda later meets at a frozen lake, where they talk and skate together. Although she returns to the lake, she does not see him again, and it is ...