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The Uniform Building Code embodiment of
the Semiconductor Industry Association's 1981 "Green Book." Adopted
January 1, 1985, H-6 sets the design standards for electronics and R&D
facilities using any of the "no exemption" highly toxic chemicals or
gas...
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An international standard for two-way video telecommunications developed by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to ensure compatibility and communication among different video conferencing systems. Applies to video compression, audio compress...
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The natural environment of an animal....
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A fume hood accessory used as a means of cutting total energy demands by 50 percent. In both vertical and horizontal hoods, HOPEC locks the sash in a half-raised position during use to avoid the energy expense of researchers working with the hoods wide op...
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Referring to water, the scale-forming and lather-inhibiting qualities that water possesses when it has high concentrations of calcium and magnesium ions. Temporary hardness, caused by the presence of magnesium or calcium bicarbonate, can be removed by boi...
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A method of providing electricity in which conduit and junction boxes serve as the distribution system over a specific grid layout. Activation is accomplished at workstations by poke-through outlets, partition raceways or service poles and at lighting fix...
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In biotechnology facilities, a room
for purification of products produced or fermented by biohazardous
microorganisms in a bioreactor. Operations conducted in a harvest room
include centrifugation, filtration concentration, dialysis and
chromatography...
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In animal research facilities, the collecting of animal organs, ova, or embryos for use in research. In biotechnology facilities, harvesting refers to the processing of product. After the product is produced by microorganisms in a bioreactor, it is t...
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A term generally used to describe
an improvement in worker productivity that arises when the worker's
environment is changed experimentally, even if the change is for the
worse. The idea behind the Hawthorne effect is that experimentation, per
se, con...
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The principal screening tool used by the EPA to evaluate risks to public health and the environment associated with abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. The HRS calculates a score based on the potential of hazardous substances spreading from t...
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A solid, liquid or gas that has a degree of hazard rating in health, flammability or reactivity of 3 or 4 as ranked by Uniform Fire Code Standard number 79-3. HPM are used directly in research, laboratory or production processes that have as their end pro...
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Solid wastes which, because of their quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may (1) cause or contribute to an increase in mortality and serious, irreversible, or incapacitating illness, or (2) pose a present or pote...
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Hazardous materials....
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Area adjacent to a greenhouse which contains racks, drying equipment and other important research tools....
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Prepaid
health plans that provide a range of services in return for fixed
monthly premiums. Virtually any organization can sponsor an HMO,
including the government, medical schools, hospitals, employers, labor
unions and insurance companies....
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Under a
managed-care system, an organization that would purchase healthcare for
its members. Generally would be used by groups that are not large enough
to effectively bargain for competitive pricing....
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An exchange of heat occurs when there are two fluids of different temperatures and they are seperated by a solid wall. The device that implements this exchange is a heat exchanger....
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An energy-saving device that exchanges
heat between exhaust (tempered) air and supply (untempered) air. This
device transfers both sensible and latent energy. While this device is
effective in transferring energy between the two airstreams, caution
mu...
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The quantity of heat released in a material per unit of time.
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Metallic elements with high molecular weights. Even in low concentrations, heavy metals are generally toxic to plant and animal life. Such metals are often residual in the environment and exhibit biological accumulation. Examples include mercury, chromium...
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A localized swelling filled with blood resulting from a break in a blood vessel.
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See Highly Efficient Particulate Air Filter....
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Also: B Virus, Herpes B. A virus carried by Old World monkeys. While usually unnoticable in them, can be fatal to humans. A zoonotic organism....
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A unit of measure of frequency (cycles per
second) abbreviated Hz....
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See High-Intensity Discharge....
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See High-Intensity Discharge Luminaries. ...
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Operating under the same principles as liquid chromatography but with sophisticated pumps, valves, and plumbing to allow separations at high solvent pressures. HPLC can be used either for detection, quantification, and identification (analytical HPLC) or ...
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A type of lighting, including mercury vapor, metal halide and high-pressure sodium light sources, where a small arc tube generating heat and pressure much higher than that of a fluorescent tube is enclosed in an outer bulb. Atoms of metallic elements vapo...
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These
lamps have a very high light output and a relatively long life. Types of
HID luminaries include the mercury vapor (bluish) and sodium vapor
(yellow-orangish) lamps found in street lights....
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Used in cleanroom laboratories to filter out contaminating particles as small as 0.5 micron in diameter. HEPA filters were first used in hospital operating rooms for heart transplant surgery. HEPA filters are used extensively in building, hood, and caging...
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The study of cells and tissues at the microscopic level.
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See Health Maintenance Organization....
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Ratio of the emissions
captured by a fume hood and directed into a control or disposal device,
expressed as a percent of all emissions....
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Certification made by a qualified person signifying that required air flow tests have been performed and that a fume hood's performance is in accordance with the manufacturer's data. In the case of biosafety cabinets, certification signifies that performa...
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See Hand-Operated Positive Energy Control. ...
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A small motel for patients and families at a hospital or medical center....
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A laboratory that contains pathogenic organisms. Such labs are usually BSL-3 or BSL-4 laboratories....
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In a sound masking system, those areas in a room where the hissing of white noise is louder than elsewhere. Technically, called poor spatial uniformity. The problem derives from plenum speakers located too far apart, right next to a reflecting element suc...
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A technique for measuring air movement in an exhaust duct or at the face of a fume hood. Air is moved across a heated wire, cooling the wire. The measure of the wire's change in resistance is directly related to the speed of the air. Also known as Thermal...
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A generic approach to the office where
desks are not assigned to any particular employee. Employees do the bulk
of their work outside the office. When they do come into the central
facility to work, they are assigned a desk equipped with basic office
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See Hazardous Processing Materials. ...
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See Health Plan Purchasing Cooperative....
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See Heat Release Rate...
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See Hazard Ranking System....
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Another term for interaction space....
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A respiratory illness caused by exposure to toxins from microorganisms that flourish in humidifiers and air conditioners. Characterized by tightness of the chest, cough, muscle aches, fever and chills, it has been reported among office workers since 1970....
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An instrument that regulates humidity.
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The management of animal care and health by proper regimes of watering, feeding, sanitation, and healthcare....
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Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system. Those systems that control and maintain the temperature, humidty, and air quality. (FM Handbook, 2E by David G. Cotts © 1999 David G. Cotts.)...
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Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration....
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See Heat exchanger.
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Production of offspring, or hybrids,
from genetically dissimilar parents. The process can be used to produce
a hybrid plant (by cross-breeding two varieties) or hybridomas (hybrid
cells formed by fusing two unlike cells, used in producing monoclonal
a...
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The cell produced by fusing two cells of different origin. In monoclonal antibody technology, hybridomas are formed by fusing a cancer cell and an antibody-producing cell....
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Cultivation of plants in nutrient solution rather than in soil.
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A chart recorder that measures temperature and humidity.
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A term that refers to a variety of
electronic technologies that support cognitive tasks. Includes desktop
publishing, windowing computer environments, video disc-based and
digital map systems, enhanced graphics, animation and database and query
systems....
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A group of respiratory diseases that cause inflammation of the lung. Most forms of hypersensitivity pneumonitis are caused by the inhalation of organic dusts, including molds....
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