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  2. Radiation hormesis - Wikipedia

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    The expert panel believes that the Ultra-Low-Level Radiation laboratory is the only experiment that can explore with authority and confidence the effects of low-level radiation; that it can confirm or discard the various radiobiological effects proposed at low radiation levels e.g. LNT, threshold and radiation hormesis. [69]

  3. Antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Strength of natural selection plot as a function of age. The antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis (APT) is a theory in evolutionary biology that suggests certain genes may confer beneficial effects early in an organism's life, enhancing reproductive success, while also causing detrimental effects later in life, contributing to the aging process.

  4. Intermediate disturbance hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    David Wilkinson gives a thorough history of the hypothesis in his paper titled, "The disturbing history of the intermediate disturbance". [2] In this paper, he explains that the idea of disturbance relating to species richness can be traced back to the 1940s in Eggeling 1947, [7] Watt 1947, [8] and Tansley 1949. [9]

  5. Biosafety level - Wikipedia

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    The Proceedings of a Workshop on "Developing Norms for the Provision of Biological Laboratories in Low-Resource Contexts" provides a list of BSL-3 laboratories in those countries. [32] Biosafety level 3 is commonly used for research and diagnostic work involving various microbes which can be transmitted by aerosol and/or cause severe disease.

  6. Taxonomic rank - Wikipedia

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    In biology, taxonomic rank (which some authors prefer to call nomenclatural rank [1] because ranking is part of nomenclature rather than taxonomy proper, according to some definitions of these terms) is the relative or absolute level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in a hierarchy that reflects evolutionary

  7. Report: Jimmy Butler 'ready for exit' from Miami - AOL

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    Six-time All-Star Jimmy Butler is "ready for his exit" and prefers that the Miami Heat trade him before the Feb. 6 deadline, ESPN reported Wednesday.

  8. Malfunctioning security bollards were removed from Bourbon St ...

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    Security barriers in New Orleans that were intended to protect pedestrians from vehicles but at times malfunctioned were removed for replacement before an attacker drove a pickup truck into a ...

  9. 2008-03-26 Commodities are No Country for Old Men

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    level while meeting domestic demand. We are already tempered to paying over $3.00 per gallon of gas when less than three years ago it was below $2.00 per gallon. No matter what happens, we all have to eat, stay warm and use energy for our shelter. Why not set new price floors when consumers demonstrate inelastic demand for raw materials?