Lifeline

Strict compliance with all instructions on the permit, e.g. the wearing of breathing apparatus and other safety equipment if a safety belt or harness is used, it must be attached to a lifeline, the free end of which is held by a person outside the confined space... 

If a person is appointed to hold the lifeline and to keep continual watch over the person within the confined space, it is forbidden to leave the post. It is necessary to be ready to summon help if required. (A specific emergency plan should be established)... 

Rates are then designed to recoup the revenues for each of the customer groups. Rates can be based on the amount of consumption or the type of service. Consumption-based rates arc cither flat, or increasing or decreasing in steps. Service-based rates depend on the type of service a utility offers its customer classes firm rates, lifeline rates, interruptible rates, stanby rates, various incentive rates, or time-of-use rates. 

IILifeiilie. A Quarterly Newsletter for Enthusiasts of John Conway s game of Li/e, edited by Robert Wainwright, s 1-11, 1971-1973 available on the internet at URL address http //members.aol.com/ lifeline/life/ lifepage.htm. See also Time magazine, January 21, 1974 The game of Life, which is a lively account of hackers versus serious computer time. 

Kornberg A Basic research The lifeline of medicine. FASEB J 1992 6 3143. 

Figure 10 shows polarized spectra of two types of silks recorded by Raman spectromicroscopy the dragline silk (the lifeline) of the spider Nephila edulis and the cocoon silk of a wild silkworm Sarnia cynthia ricini. The position of the amide I band at 1,668-1,669 cm-1 for both threads is characteristic of the /i-sheet... 

Rose, S. (1998), Lifelines Biology Beyond Determinism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Rosenberg, A. (1985), The Structure of Biological Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 

This contribution is derived from material in my book, Lifelines Biology, Freedom, Determinism (Rose, 1997) and my chapter in the edited collection, Alas Poor Darwin (Rose, 2000). 

Rose, S. P. R. (1997), Lifelines Biology, Freedom, Determinism, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, UK. 

Gold has been used for many years as a minority carrier lifeline controller in Si. As such, it is introduced in a controlled manner, usually by diffusion into transistor structures to decrease the carrier lifetime in the base region in order to increase the switching speed (Ravi, 1981). Conversely, the uncontrolled presence of Au is clearly deleterious to the performance of devices, both because of the increased recombination within the structure and the increase of pipe defects, which can cause shorting of the device. These pipe defects consist of clusters of metallic impurities at dislocations bounding epitaxial stacking faults. 

Where in a product s life a regulation such as TSCA is imposed becomes important in terms of resource diversion. Ideally, imposition of Premanufacture Notification after scale-up and successful line trials would necessitate filing notifications only for those products that actually become commercial. In the usually compressed Coatings and Resins lifeline, this is not always, and in fact very seldom, possible. 

Fig. 3.3. Theoretical Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. The right-hand scale shows in absolute bolometric magnitude what the left-hand scale expresses as the logarithm of the intrinsic luminosity in units of the solar intrinsic luminosity (Lq = 4 x 10 erg s ). On the horizontal axis, the logarithm of the effective temperature, i.e. the temperature of the equivalent blackbody, is put into correspondence with the spectral type of the star, as determined by the observer. This temperature-luminosity diagram shows the lifelines of the stars as strands combed out like hair across the graph. With a suitable interpretation, i.e. viewed through the explanatory machinery of nuclear physics, it opens the way to an understanding of stellar evolution and its twin science of nucleosynthesis. (Courtesy of Andre Maeder and co-workers.)...

By the time she got to high school, Rachel could no longer mask her depression and, like other young people with whom I have spoken, started making some friends who were also depressed. These friends were a lifeline, Rachel told me There were times when I really wanted to kill myself [and] they were the ones who stopped me. As a preventive measure Rachel made a pact with a fellow sufferer, Alex, that neither of us would kill ourselves without the other one. At Alex s urging, she went to see the school counselors ... 

Will Nuzum is a Lifeline Worker with the Rochdale Community Drug Team. 

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). 2005. Will the Lifeline of Affordable Medicines for Poor Countries be Cut Consequences of Medicines Patenting in India. External Briefing Document. Available at http //www.msf.fr/documents/base/2005-02-01-msf.pdf. 

Mills, K.C., Tunnel vision lifeline or killer Some research on why training to keep your cool is valuable, Law Order, 11, 80, 2000. 

The gas supply chain is a complex lifeline, which is exposed to serious risk and significant consequences should something go wrong. Some main characteristics in the case of Georgia are ... 

When the EPA considered exposures to insecticide residues in the home they identified at least six possible sources and routes these are given in Table 2.6. Their original approach apportioned the acceptable daily intake (ADI) between the various routes but it soon became clear that this was unrealistic because an individual was unlikely to be exposed via all routes on any one day. The EPA s present strategy is to develop an approach called micro-exposure event modelling. Micro-exposure event modelling is based on statistical data on the frequencies and levels of contamination of food, water, etc. and on behavioural information about the frequency of use of lawn/pet/timber treatments, etc. The combined data are assembled in a probabilistic model called LIFELINE which is able to predict the frequency and level of exposure to a group of hypothetical individuals over their lifetime.12 The model is also able to take account of the relative proportions of different types of accommodation, the incidence of pet ownership or any other data that will affect real levels of exposure. The output from the LIFELINE model allows the exposures of individuals in a population to be modelled over any interval from a single occasion to a lifetime. 

For more information contact the lifeline web page at Hampshire Research http //www.hampshire.org/welcome.html... 

Lifeline registry of endovascular aneurysm repair long-term primary outcome measures. J Vase Surg 2005 42( I) I -10. 

The use of electronic response systems (clickers) in the chemistry classroom has increased greatly in the past several years. Possibly made famous in the Ask the Audience lifeline on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire , clickers have been used in many classroom settings at all grade levels. While increasingly common in chemistry, response systems... 

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