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  2. Boiling frog - Wikipedia

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    A frog sitting on the handle of a saucepan on a hot stove. The frog in this photo was unharmed. [1] The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will ...

  3. Octadecyl 3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionate ...

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    Octadecyl 3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionate is significantly less volatile than simpler phenolic antioxidants such as butylhydroxytoluene (BHT). This makes it more suitable to stabilising plastics, as it is not driven out by the high temperatures experienced during plastic extrusion and moulding, [2] when they are heated to 150-320 °C (300–600 °F). [3]

  4. Portal : Frogs/Science, culture, and economics articles/1

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    The boiling frog is an anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive.The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.

  5. Crab mentality - Wikipedia

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    Crab mentality, also known as crab theory, [1] [2] crabs in a bucket [a] mentality, or the crab-bucket effect, is a mentality of which people will try to prevent others from gaining a favourable position in something, even if it has no effect on those trying to stop them.

  6. Adenosine deaminase 2 deficiency - Wikipedia

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    The most common treatment for DADA2 is TNF inhibitors. This therapy tends to prevent vasculitis -related manifestations such as rash and stroke, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] but does not perform well in individuals presenting with severe hematologic and immunologic abnormalities such as bone marrow failure or severe recurrent infections. [ 7 ]

  7. Cinema of Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    The cinema of Indonesia refers to films produced domestically in Indonesia.The statutory Indonesian Film Board, or BPI, defines Indonesian films as "movies that are made by or using Indonesian resources whose Intellectual Property Right is owned either entirely or partly by Indonesian citizen or Indonesian legal entity".

  8. Severe combined immunodeficiency - Wikipedia

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    Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), also known as Swiss-type agammaglobulinemia, is a rare genetic disorder characterized by the disturbed development of functional T cells and B cells caused by numerous genetic mutations that result in differing clinical presentations. [2]

  9. Banti's syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Banti's syndrome (also known as Banti's disease), named for Guido Banti, [1] is a chronic congestive enlargement of the spleen [2] resulting in premature destruction of the red blood cells by the spleen.