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  2. Tobacco control - Wikipedia

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    The tobacco control field comprises the activity of disparate health, policy and legal research and reform advocacy bodies across the world. These took time to coalesce into a sufficiently organised coalition to advance such measures as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the first article of the first edition of the Tobacco Control journal suggested that ...

  3. Smok - Wikipedia

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    Smok, the Polish word for "dragon", may refer to: Michał Smok, the alias of Anna Henryka Pustowójtówna (1843−1881), Polish nationalist; Slavic dragon, a mythical creature Smok Wawelski, the Wawel Dragon, a famous dragon in Polish folklore; Smok, an extinct reptile genus; Smok, the ancestor of all living Polish Lowland Sheepdogs

  4. Electronic cigarette - Wikipedia

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    An exploded view of a typical e-cigarette design with transparent atomizer (labeled clearomizer in diagram) and changeable dual-coil head. An electronic cigarette consists of an atomizer, a power source such as a battery, [25] and a container for e-liquid such as a cartridge or tank.

  5. Smoking - Wikipedia

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    Smoking is a practice in which a substance is combusted and the resulting smoke is typically inhaled to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream of a person. Most commonly, the substance used is the dried leaves of the tobacco plant, which have been rolled with a small rectangle of paper into an elongated cylinder called a cigarette.

  6. Smoke detector - Wikipedia

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    Smoke detector mounted on a ceiling. A smoke detector is a device that senses smoke, typically as an indicator of fire.Smoke detectors/alarms are usually housed in plastic enclosures, typically shaped like a disk about 125 millimetres (5 in) in diameter and 25 millimetres (1 in) thick, but shape and size vary.

  7. De novo protein structure prediction - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, de novo programs will select possible conformations with lower free energies – which are more likely to be correct than those structures with higher free energies. [2] [7] [8] As stated by David A. Baker in regards to how his de novo Rosetta predictor works, “during folding, each local segment of the chain flickers between a ...

  8. Methods in Molecular Biology - Wikipedia

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    Methods in Molecular Biology is a book series published by Humana Press (an imprint of Springer Science+Business Media) that covers molecular biology research methods and protocols. The book series was introduced by series editor John M. Walker in 1983 and provides step-by-step instructions for carrying out experiments in a research lab. [1]

  9. Growth curve (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: A bi-phasic bacterial growth curve.. A growth curve is an empirical model of the evolution of a quantity over time. Growth curves are widely used in biology for quantities such as population size or biomass (in population ecology and demography, for population growth analysis), individual body height or biomass (in physiology, for growth analysis of individuals).