Chemicals that are applied to materials to prevent the start or slow the growth of fire. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2024. Environmental Health Sciences Glossary https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/glossary)
In pressure ventilation, a form of mechanical ventilation, the fan blows air through inlet openings into the building, creating a positive indoor pressure that pushes air out of the building through the outlet openings. (adapted from http://www.fao.org/3/i2433e/i2433e09.pdf)
A stable suspension of active ingredient(s) in a fluid intended for dilution in an organic liquid before use. (http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/agphome/documents/Pests_Pesticides/Specs/JMPS_Manual_2016/3rd_Amendment_JMPS_Manual.pdf)
Text mining, also referred to as text data mining, roughly equivalent to text analytics, is the process of deriving high-quality information from text. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_mining)
A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone)
The process which spontaneously arrests the flow of blood from vessels carrying blood under pressure. It is accomplished by contraction of the vessels, adhesion and aggregation of formed blood elements (eg. erythrocyte aggregation), and the process of blood coagulation. (MeSH. 2024. Hemostasis. https://meshb-prev.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D006487)
Maternal and child health refers to the health of women and children during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal period. (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, https://www.epicentro.iss.it/en/maternal-child-health/)
Defensins are a family of small (2–5 kDa), cationic host defense peptides with a β-sheet core structure stabilized by three conserved intramolecular disulfide bonds. (Xu D and Lu W (2020) Defensins: A Double-Edged Sword in Host Immunity. Front. Immunol. 11:764. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.00764)
Refers to the percentage of people living on less than USD 2.15 a day (2017 PPP prices) in a country in a given year. (World Bank. 2022. Fact sheet: an adjustment to global poverty lines. In: World Bank. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/factsheet/2022/05/02/fact-sheet-an-adjustment-to-global-poverty-lines)
Frontogenesis is a meteorological process of tightening of horizontal temperature gradients to produce fronts. In the end, two types of fronts form: cold fronts and warm fronts. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontogenesis)
An extension system can be defined as an information exchange system which shows the actors, people and institutions, their interactions and communication networks between these actors to coordinate the information related processes. (The agricultural extension system and practices in Turkey DOI: 10.5897/SRE10.908)
A property of a natural process or data where spatial dependence (autocorrelation) changes only with the distance between two locations; direction is unimportant. (GRC Data Intelligence. 2025. Isotropy https://www.grcdi.nl/dqglossary/isotropy.html)
