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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.
The health profession concerned with the discovery, development, production, and distribution of drugs. Drugs are substances (other than devices) used to diagnose, prevent, cure, or relieve the symptoms of disease. For relations to closely allied fields
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That area of the tropical and subtropical western North Atlantic Ocean encompassing the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, the Bahamas and Florida, the northeast coast of South America, and the juxtaposed coastal regions, including the Antillean Islands.
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The change of direction of propagation of any wave phenomenon which occurs when the wave velocity changes. The term is most frequently applied to visible light, but it also applies to all other electromagnetic waves, as well as to sound and water waves.
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The effects of mountains on the atmosphere, ranging over all scales of motion, including very small (such as turbulence), local (for instance, cloud formations over individual peaks or ridges), and global (such as the monsoons of Asia and North America).
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Submersible work platforms that can be operated either remotely or by an onboard crew. Unlike military submarines, which are essentially submerging ships, submersibles are not self-contained. All submersibles require some sort of surface-support vessel.
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The chemical compound sodium chloride. It is used extensively in the food industry as a preservative and flavoring, as well as in the chemical industry to make chlorine and sodium. Historically, salt is one of the oldest materials used in people's food.
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The common name for a family (Clupeidae) of about 70 genera of fishes in the order Clupeiformes. Used extensively as food all over the world, they occur in all seas except the Arctic and Antarctic. Many live in vast shoals and are caught in great numbers.
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The determination of parameters, associated with microwave propagation in transmission lines or waveguides, which are generalizations of the impedance concept at lower frequencies and are derived from ratios of complex electric or magnetic field amplitudes.
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The directional dependence of certain wave phenomena, at right angles to the propagation direction of the wave. In particular, ordinary light may be regarded as composed of two such asymmetrical components, referred to as its two states of linear polarization.
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The heating of matter by an electric arc. The matter may be solid, liquid, or gaseous. When the heating is direct, the material to be heated is one electrode; for indirect heating, the heat is transferred from the arc by conduction, convection, or radiation.
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