- Industry: Library & information science
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
Erroneous spelling of promoter (in molecular genetics), found in some literature.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Establishment of a qualitative or quantitative relationship between risks and benefits, involving the complex process of determining the significance of the identified hazards and estimated risks to those organisms or people concerned with or affected by them.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Estimate of the amount of a potentially harmful substance (e.g. a contaminant) in food or drinking water that can be ingested weekly over a lifetime without appreciable health risk.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Estimate of the amount of a potentially harmful substance (e.g. contaminant) in food or drinking water that can be ingested daily over a lifetime without appreciable health risk.
Note 1: For regulation of substances that cannot be easily avoided, a provisionally tolerable weekly intake (PTWI) may be applied as a temporary limit.
Note 2: Acceptable Daily Intake is normally used for substances not known to be harmful, such as food additives.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Estimate of the plausible upper limit to the true value of a quantity.
Note: This is usually not a statistical confidence limit.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Excretion of excessive amounts of protein (derived from blood plasma or kidney tubules) in the urine.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Exerting an effect upon the mind and capable of modifying mental activity.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Experimental ratio of a substance's concentration in the soil to that in the aqueous (dissolved) soil phase at equilibrium: it is valid only for the specific concentration and solid/solution ratio of the test.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Experimental study of the adverse effects of exposure of a living organism to a substance for a defined duration under defined conditions.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Expression of relative toxicity of an agent as compared to a given or implied standard or reference.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
