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A type of treatment that uses a substance or group of substances to stimulate the immune system to destroy a tumor or infectious microorganisms such as bacteria or viruses....
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The science or methodology of vaccine development.
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See Project Closeout and Commissioning. During design and construction, the design, materials, methods, and performance are evaluated continuously from start to finish....
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A process used in industries that manufacture drugs, biologicals and medical devices that establishes documented evidence to provide a high degree of assurance that a specific facility and its supporting utilities will consistently meet predetermined spec...
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A process that identifies and
assigns value to the various functions of a product (or facility) and
then seeks a final design that maximizes functional value and
reliability while minimizing cost....
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A layer of low-permeability material that prevents condensation within building sections....
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Semi-vapor permeable; more permeable than a Vapor Barrier....
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Hydrogen peroxide in the vapor (gas) phase, as distinct from the dilute solution of hydrogen peroxide commonly used as a household disinfectant (normally 10 percent hydrogen peroxide dissolved in distilled water). VHP is used in biodecontamination in a dr...
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An HVAC system in which a
local thermostat controls room temperature by controlling the volume of
fixed-temperature air (heated or cooled) delivered to the room. An
advantage of VAV is its operating and first-cost economies. A
disadvantage is that fre...
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A system of
controlling HVAC fan speed with motors and controls that change fan
speed by varying the frequency of electrical power delivered to the fan
motor....
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See Variable Air Volume. ...
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Short for Virtual Address eXtension, Digital Equipment Corporation's successor to its PDP-11 line of minicomputers. As its name implies, VAX systems feature an operating system—VMS—that supprts virtual memory. The VAX was introduced in 1977 an...
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See Virtual Access Memory, Virtual Memory Storage. ...
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See Video Display Terminal. ...
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In biotechnology, the agent used to carry new genes into cells. Plasmids are the current preferred vector....
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An acute, mosquito-borne viral disease that produces fever, aches, and other flu-like symptoms in humans, sometimes progressing to encephalitis in severe cases. VEE also causes serious disease in horses and their biological cousins (donkeys, mules, etc.)....
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A rack that houses animal caging, and provides either or both supply air/exhaust air to each cage. Air-flow management is done to contain hazardous agents within the cage and/or to prevent disease agents from entering the cage....
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A type of Local Exhaust Ventilation. These blowers have inlet and outlet hoses that collect and move contaminated air away....
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A method of removing contaminants from an enclosed space by the process of supplying fresh air so that the existing atmosphere is totally or partially replaced....
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The rate that indoor air enters and leaves a building. Expressed either as the number of changes of outdoor air per unit of time (air changes per hour) or as the rate at which a volume of outside air enters per unit of time (cfm)....
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A real estate financing arrangement generally employed for high-growth companies that are beyond the venture capital first stages. In venture leasing, a lessor agrees to a low lease rate in exchange for warrants to purchase the growth company's stock at a...
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In an animal facility, wild insects and rodents that are not supposed to be in the facility....
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See Variable Frequency Drive. ...
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Foot traffic vibration can be a serious problem in sensitive R&D environments. An above-grade floor acts somewhat like a trampoline: footfall impact sets the floor in motion, also setting into motion any floor-mounted equipment. Footfalls near the center ...
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A bandwidth suppression device used to reduce the bandwidth of video signals transmitted via satellite. It requires two pieces of equipment: one to reduce the bandwidth and one to recondition the signal. Achieves significant cost reductions on the use of ...
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Communication via telecommunications channels between more than two groups or three individuals. Video conferences can involve fully-interactive video and audio or one-way video and two-way audio. This includes full-motion video, limited motion video, and...
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A device for entering information into a computer system and displaying it on a screen. A typewriter-like keyboard is used to enter information (Webster's New World Dictionary of Computer Terms copyright 1994 Simon & Schuster Inc.)...
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A collection of video monitors stacked on top of each other and grouped in rectangular clusters of 9 to 256 monitors. Video walls are usually used in sales, promotional and convention activities....
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A copolymer used as a coating, paint, adhesive, and insulation class of emulsion.
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A sophisticated software system that provides virtually unlimited
memory to a given computer system. A VAX computer continually moves
information into and out of the main memory so that the user has instant
access to essentially unlimited equipment mem...
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A briefcase approach to the office; where everything necessary to do work, from fax to phone to laptop computer, is portable. With the ultimate virtual office, employees would work at home and convene periodically to share ideas. This would mean that the ...
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A type of microorganism that is capable of reproduction and growth only within living cells; it differs from other microorganisms because it has a core of RNA (ribonucleic acid) or DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) surrounded by a coat of protein.
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A facility or part of a facility that is designed to hold animals for laboratory research....
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See Volatile Organic Compound....
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Uses computers and LANs via the Internet to route voice communications through telephony.
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An electrical technique for opening
an audio circuit only to the person who is currently speaking. The
system allows only one person to speak at a time, often without the
capability to be interrupted. Voice switching is an effective technique
for avoiding...
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Any organic compound that contributes to atmospheric photochemical reactions....
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