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  • 1Well World — The Well World is a fictional planet in Jack L. Chalker s Well of Souls and Watchers at the Well series of novels:The Well of Souls series* Midnight at the Well of Souls , Del Rey, 1977 (ISBN 0 7434 3522 2) * Exiles at the Well of Souls , Del Rey …

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  • 2Stress (biological) — Stress is a biological term which refers to the consequences of the failure of a human or animal body to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats to the organism, whether actual or imagined. [ The Stress of Life , Hans Selye, 1956.] …

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  • 3Stress corrosion cracking — (SCC) is the unexpected sudden failure of normally ductile metals or tough thermoplastics subjected to a tensile stress in a corrosive environment, especially at elevated temperature (in the case of metals). SCC is highly chemically specific in… …

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  • 4Under the Dome —   …

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  • 5stress, strain — Stress means pressure, the force exerted upon one object by another. For discussion of strain, See sprain. Examples of use: Under heavy stress, the cable broke. It is a strain to work sixteen hours a day. The German expression Sturm und Drang… …

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  • 6Stress of weather — Weather Weath er, n. [OE. weder, AS. weder; akin to OS. wedar, OFries. weder, D. weder, we[^e]r, G. wetter, OHG. wetar, Icel. ve[eth]r, Dan. veir, Sw. v[ a]der wind, air, weather, and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lith.… …

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  • 7Under the weather — Weather Weath er, n. [OE. weder, AS. weder; akin to OS. wedar, OFries. weder, D. weder, we[^e]r, G. wetter, OHG. wetar, Icel. ve[eth]r, Dan. veir, Sw. v[ a]der wind, air, weather, and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lith.… …

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  • 8Environmental stress cracking — (ESC) is one of the most common causes of unexpected brittle failure of thermoplastic (especially amorphous) polymers known at present. Environmental stress cracking may account for around 15 30% of all plastic component failures in service.H. F …

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  • 9Posttraumatic Stress Disorder —    (PTSD)    (See also Psychosis: Emergence: psychogenic [reactive] psychoses [1916].) Interest in the psychiatric consequences of trauma initially arose following the enactment of health and accident insurance systems in the second half of the… …

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  • 10Effective stress — Karl von Terzaghi first proposed the relationship for effective stress in 1936. [http://fbe.uwe.ac.uk/public/geocal/SoilMech/stresses/stresses.htm] For him, the term ‘effective’ meant the calculated stress that was effective in moving soil, or… …

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