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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Medication

A medication is a drug taken to treat and reduce any symptoms of an illness or medical condition, or may be used as precautionary medicine that has future benefits but does not treat any existing or pre-existing diseases or symptoms. Provision of medication is often keeping up by the government into three categories over the counter medications, which are available in pharmacies and supermarket's without special limitations, behind the counter, which are dispensed by a pharmacist without needing a doctor's prescription, and Prescription only medicines, which must be prescribed by a licensed medical professional, as a rule a physician.

Most Over the counter medications are normally considered to be safe enough that most people will not hurt themselves if they are taken as instructed. In UK, BTC medicine is called pharmacy medicines which can only be sold in registered pharmacies, by or under the supervision of a pharmacist. However, the precise difference between OTC and prescription depends on the legal jurisdiction.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Arts and Crafts

The Arts and Crafts progress began mainly as a search for real and meaningful styles for the 19th century and as a response to the miscellaneous revival of famous styles of the Victorian era and to "inexpressive" machine-made manufacture aided by the Industrial Revolution. Considering the instrument to be the source cause of all repetitive and ordinary evils, some of the protagonists of this association turned completely away from the use of technology and towards handcraft, which tended to focus their productions in the hands of receptive but comfortable consumers.

while the Arts and Crafts movement was in great part a effect to industrialization, if looked at on the entire, it was neither anti-modern. Some of the European factions thought that machines were in fact required, but they should only be used to reduce the tediousness of routine, repetitive tasks. At the same time, some Arts and Crafts leaders felt that things should also be reasonable. The difference between quality production and 'demo' design, and the effort to settle the two, subject design debate at the turn of the twentieth century.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Festival

A festival is an event, usually dramatic by a local community, which centers on some unique aspect of that community. Among many religions, a feast or festival is a set of merriment in honor of God or gods. A feast and a festival are traditionally interchangeable. However, the term feast has also entered general secular parlance as a synonym for any large or elaborate meal. When used as in the meaning of a festival, most repeatedly refers to a religious festival rather than a film or art festival.
Festivals are many types, serve to meet specific social needs and duties, as well as to present entertainment. These times of celebration offer a intellect of belonging for religious, social, or geographical groups. Modern festivals that focus on educational or ethnic topics seek to inform members of their traditions. In past times, festivals were times when the elderly shared stories and transferred convinced knowledge to the next generation. Historic feast often provided a means for unity among families and for people to come across mates. Select anniversaries have annual festivals to celebrate previous significant occurrences.

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Inductor

An inductor is a passive electrical device working in electrical circuits for its property of inductance. Inductance is an consequence which results from the magnetic field that forms around a current carrying conductor. Electrical current through the conductor creates a magnetic flux relative to the current. A change in this current creates a change in magnetic flux that, in turn, generates an electromotive force that acts to oppose this change in current. Inductance is a calculate of the generated emf for a unit modify in current. An inductor with an inductance of 1 henry produces an emf of 1 V when the current through the inductor changes at the rate of 1 ampere per second. The number of turns, the area of each loop/turn, and what it is wrapped around influence the inductance.
An inductor opposes changes in the current. An ideal inductor would offer no resistance to a constant direct current, however, only superconducting inductors have truly zero electrical resistance. Inductors are used expansively in analog circuits and signal processing