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21drug use — Introduction use of drugs for psychotropic rather than medical purposes. Among the most common psychotropic drugs are opiates ( opium, morphine, heroin), hallucinogens (LSD, mescaline, psilocybin), barbiturates, cocaine, amphetamines,… …
22Land use forecasting — undertakes to project the distribution and intensity of trip generating activities in the urban area. In practice, land use models are demand driven, using as inputs the aggregate information on growth produced by an aggregate economic… …
23Poly drug use — Classification and external resources ICD 10 F19 Polydrug use refers to the use of two or more psychoactive drugs in combination to achieve a particular effect. In many cases one drug is used as a base or primary drug, with additional drugs to… …
24Materials for use in vacuum — are materials showing very low rate of outgassing in vacuum, and, where applicable, tolerant to the bake out temperatures. The requirements grow increasingly stringent with the desired degree of vacuum achievable in the vacuum chamber. The… …
25Low intensity pulsed ultrasound — (LIPUS) is a medical technology.Researchers at the University of Alberta have used LIPUS to gently massage teeth roots and jawbones to cause growth or regrowth, and have grown new teeth. As of June 2006, a large device has been licensed by the… …
26earthquake intensity — a measure of how much damage an earthquake causes. Several scales are in use which have developed over time from the very crudest, subjective observations of the 19th century, to relatively sophisticated, empirical forms today. ie: Rossi Forel… …
27Native American use of fire — The Grass Fire, Frederic Remington 1908, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. In addition to simple cooking, Pre Columbian Native Americans used fire in many and significant ways, ranging from protecting an area from fire to landscape altering… …
28Pesticide use in the United States — is predominately by the agricultural sector.Kellogg RL, Nehring R, Grube A, Goss DW, and Plotkin S (February 2000), [http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Technical/land/pubs/eip pap.html Environmental indicators of pesticide leaching and runoff from farm… …
29mechanical intensity of fishing — fishing effort (the total fishing gear in use for a specified period of time; when two or more kinds of gear are used, they must be adjusted to some standard type before being added, or effective fishing effort, abbreviated as f or f (Ricker,… …
30heat intensity — Heat concentration in a substance as indicated by the temperature of the substance through use of a thermometer …
