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Females lay about three or four eggs per day. Louse eggs (also known as nits), are attached near the base of a host hair shaft. [11] [12] Eggs are usually laid on the base of the hair, 3–5 mm off the scalp surface. [11] [12] In warm climates, and especially the tropics, eggs may be laid 6 inches (15 cm) or more down the hair shaft. [13]
A dead nit attached to a hair. No nit policy is a public health policy implemented by some education authorities to prevent the transmission of head lice infestation.The "no nit" policy requires the sending home and barring of all children who have nits (egg shells) on their hair from controlled settings such as school, summer camp or day care facilities.
The terminology originates from the common act of manually removing nits (the eggs of lice, generally head lice) from another person's hair. [ 4 ] As nitpicking inherently requires fastidious attention to detail, the term has become appropriated to describe the practice of meticulously searching for minor, even trivial errors in detail.
Other animals, such as cats and dogs, do not play a role in transmission. [4] Head lice feed only on human blood and are only able to survive on human head hair. [6] [5] When adults, they are about 2 to 3 mm long. [8] When not attached to a human, they are unable to live beyond three days. [5]
From 1943 to 1945, the American Red Cross sponsored a postseason charity game between each year's tournament champions to raise money for the war effort. [24] The series was described by Ray Meyer as not just benefit games, but as "really the games for the national championship". [25] The NCAA champion prevailed in all three games. [26]
An Act to declare certain institutions of technology, science education and research to be Institutions of national importance and to provide for instructions and research in branches of engineering, technology, management, education, sciences and arts and for the advancement of learning and dissemination of knowledge in such branches and for certain other matters connected with such institutions.
The act lists 32 NITs. [2] Each NIT is autonomous and linked to the others through a common council known as the Council of NITSER, which oversees their administration. All NITs are funded by the Government of India. [3] In 2020, National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked twenty four NITs in the top 200 in engineering category. [4]
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story is a nonfiction work authored by Jim Holt. He and the book were on the LA Times bestseller list during the last quarter of 2012, and the first quarter of 2013. The book was also a 2012 National Book Critics Award finalist for nonfiction. [1] [2] [3] [4]