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McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, publishing, and business services.
Severe scarring of the liver due to a marked increase in fibrous connective tissue, resulting in a firm, nodular, distorted liver. Cirrhosis is the eighth most common cause of death in the United States and the fourth leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of 30 and 60.
Industry:Science
Laboratory examination of urine. Urine is a filtrate of the blood and is produced in the kidneys. It is a reflection of the metabolic activity of the body; conditions that affect the normal homeostatic mechanisms are often revealed by a careful analysis of the composition of the urine.
Industry:Science
Metal wires, cables, rods, tubes, bus-bars, and any other conducting media used for the purpose of carrying electric current. Although any metal assembly or structure can conduct electricity, the term conductor usually refers to the component parts of the current-carrying circuit or system.
Industry:Science
Relative motion of a solid body and a gas at a velocity greater than that of sound propagation under the same conditions. The general characteristics of supersonic flight can be understood by considering the laws of propagation of a disturbance, or pressure impulse, in a compressible fluid.
Industry:Science
Lenses worn to improve vision. The primary function of the eye is to focus light energy on the retina. In the optics of a normal eye, parallel rays of light are refracted into sharply focused points of light on the retina. Refraction is necessary because all natural light rays are divergent.
Industry:Science
Neurotechnology encompasses the application of microfabricated devices to achieve direct contact with the electrically active cells of the nervous system (neurons). Already used for some basic research in neuroscience, the technology is also being developed for applications in neuroprosthetics.
Industry:Science
Multiservice broadband networks are on the verge of becoming a reality. The key drivers are rapid advances in technologies; privatization and competition; the convergence of the telecommunication, data communication, entertainment, and publishing industries; and changes in consumers' life-styles.
Industry:Science
Plants that have evolved to flourish where the salt concentrations (notably those of sodium chloride) are 400 mol m<sup>−3</sup> and beyond. These plants are known as halophytes. The majority of plant species are unable to tolerate one-quarter of this salt concentration and are called glycophytes.
Industry:Science
Of the hundreds of known subatomic particles, many interact via the strong force. The theory of the strong force, known as quantum chromodynamics (QCD), predicts attraction between quarks. Also, quantum chromodynamics is responsible for the attraction between protons and the neutrons in the nucleus.
Industry:Science
Recent research has shown that the Earth's inner core, a solid iron sphere comparable in size to the Moon, is rotating eastward faster than the rest of the solid Earth, at a rate of about 1° per year. This rotation is driven by magnetic coupling to convection patterns in the Earth's fluid outer core.
Industry:Science
