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An inherited disease characterized by short stature , facial abnormalities, and genital abnormalities.
Aase syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that may be detected during early infancy.
This subcategory designated for abortion providers or direct referrals to abortion providers (not pro-choice advocacy, such as some of those included in the Society:Issues:Abortion category).
University, industrial or academic programs in technology and Engineering.
Listed sites are the official homepages, as found by visiting the university or institution main page & then following links to the department of biology. Post secondary or higher only.
University and college departments and institutes of philosophy, many of them offering advanced degrees in philosophy. Most sites have program descriptions, and links to faculty and other resources.

Sites representing biotechnology departments of colleges and universities, subdivisions of colleges and universities or other faculties in institutions financed by providing education in biotechnology.

This category lists sites of degree granting departments of recognized colleges and universities.
An accident reconstructionist is someone qualified to analyze the many different aspects of n accident and render an opinion on how and why the accident happened. The reconstructionist may also offer an opinion on how the accident may have been avoided. A reconstructionist will not, generally, determine a level of fault or guilt to one party over another. Every accident results from the interplay of a wide variety of factors. For example, in a traffic accident, a reconstructionist may have to assess the role of vehicle speed, time, distance, ambient lighting, seat belt use, air bags, component failure, brakes, human factors, alcohol as a factor, collision avoidance, crashworthiness and tire failures just to name a few possible factors. It is advisable to consult with an attorney if you have been involved in an accident that resulted in injuries.
Acid deposition includes acid rain and other acidic precipiation, but also dry deposition of acidic compounds.
The term acoelomates means "without coeloms", the coelom being a body space surrounded by an extra layer of cells, the mesoderm. The most important acoelomates are the flat worms contained in the phylum Platyhelminthes, including the free-living Turbellaria, the Trematoda or liver flukes and the Cestoda or parasitic tapeworms. Other phyla included are Nemertina, the ribbon worms, Orthonectida, Rhombozoa and Gnathostomulida, members of which are typically worm-like creatures sometimes classed together as polychaetes, or bristly worms. Classification in this area of the animal kingdom is unclear.
Active noise control is the modification of an unwanted sound by using an electromechanical source to generate another interfering sound.
This category is for any site related to actuarial science and the actuarial profession, members of whom are called actuaries. What is an actuary? Consider the following description from BeAnActuary.com: "Actuaries put a price tag on future risks. They have been called financial architects and social mathematicians because their unique combination of analytical and business skills is helping to solve a growing variety of financial and social problems. Actuaries make financial sense of the future. How? An actuary applies mathematical models to problems of insurance and finance. To be more specific, actuaries improve financial decision making by developing models to evaluate the current financial implications of uncertain future events. If you've never met an actuary, that's not unusual. The actuarial profession numbers only about 19,000 people in North America. But don't let that small number fool you. Actuaries put their special problem-solving skills to work in many different business situations, and their work has had an influence on people's lives for more than a century. Actuaries make a difference. Their calculations and projections are the backbone of the insurance and financial security industries. Actuarial work involves lots of math, but actuaries must also be up-to-date on business issues and trends, social science, law, and economics. In other words, actuaries have a well-rounded business approach to problem solving. And they must be good communicators to explain things to nonactuaries. Actuaries are key players on a company's management team. They are well paid, and they like what they do for a living."
Oriental medicine includes various Eastern indigenous traditions: Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Polynesian, Vietnamese, Tibetan. Most have their bases in the philosophical foundation of the East: yin/yang theory.
Acutouch therapy makes use of magnetic principles as well as far-infrared rays and anions.
Attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are neuroldevelopmental conditions. Research indicates that problems producing neurotransmitters in the frontal lobe and limbic portions of the brain may be the cause.

Behaviors include distractibility, lack of impulse control, problems with organizing or sequencing tasks, restlessness, and forgetfulness.

This category contains sites about legal administration and administrators organizations.
Administrative law covers those areas of law administered by administrative agencies, such as governmental and municipal organizations. These organizations issue regulations, usually to provide guidance, procedure, and enforcement mechanisms for statutes they are authorized to enforce. The range of administrative regulation is very broad. Enforcement of administrative laws is often done through administrative courts. Some administrative courts allow non-lawyers to provide legal representation to litigants.
Legal organizations related to advocacy, whether advocacy for groups such children or the elderly, or groups as broad as plaintiffs or defendants in lawsuits.
Advocacy for general disability rights; national and international groups. Please submit sites about specific disabilities to Health/Conditions and Diseases. Please submit sites about groups serving local areas to the appropriate Regional category.
This category deals with all things pertaining to the technology, theory, and science of aeronautics. Here you will find sites that describe the technical aspects of flying, aviation and aeronautics.
This category covers the arts, sciences, and technology of aeronautics and astronautics.
Philosophy of art, or aesthetics, is the branch of philosophy examining the nature of art and of the experience of art. Art, in this context, is broadly conceived as including the visual arts, literature, poetry, music, and dance.
This category lists companies based on the African continent, involved in the manufacture of more or less complete collections of home textiles, which include textile products for bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and curtains and soft furnishings for the livingroom.
The science and technology of growing living things (plants and animals) for human consumption or use as pets, ornament, food, fiber, or construction material. Includes Forestry, Horticulture and Soil Science.
Technically oriented websites about the environmental aspects of agriculture, including agricultural pollution and its control.
Expert witnesses, providing consultation and litigation support services in the field of agriculture.
This category contains links to countries in Europe which contain agriculture and forestry sites.

Sites and links to categories of scientific interest in both growing plants and producing food from livestock, which has involved genetic manipulation (GM), or other modification of natural sources, to aid agricultural or food production.

The AIDS dementia complex is a brain disorder that occurs in people with AIDS (HIV infection) that causes the loss of cognitive capacity, affecting the ability to function in a social or occupational setting.
In the context of this "Air Dispersion Modeling" category, air dispersion models may be defined as computerized mathematical calculations for predicting the dispersion behavior of air pollutants emitted into the atmosphere. The many types of air dispersion models include those for modeling: the continuous emission of buoyant pollutant plumes; the non-continuous accidental releases of either buoyant or heavier-than-air (i.e., dense gas) pollutants; puff emissions; point-source emissions; area-source or line-source emissions; mobile transportation-source emissions; fire and smoke emission models; etc. Air quality models for urban airsheds are probably best placed in the "Air Quality" category rather than in this "Air Dispersion" category. Sources for air dispersion modeling information include governmental agencies, research institutes, university faculty and post-graduate students, environmental consultants, industrial dispersion modeling practitioners, and pollution meteorologists.
Information, organizations, research, information and services that are concerned with improving air quality.
Law firms that practice education law (both regular and special education) on behalf of school districts and parents in the United States
Law firms that practice education law (both regular and special education) on behalf of school districts and parents in Alaska
Historically, alchemy is based on the ancient belief that all matter consists of various mixtures of four basic elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. In current usage, any chemistry based on ancient principles rather than modern physics may be included.
The Alexander Technique is a long-established method of helping people learn how to release harmful physical stress from their body - stress that can result in such symptoms as backache, stiff neck and shoulders and a variety of repetitive strain injuries. It is also widely used by performers who wish to improve the quality of their work.
Algebra is a branch of mathematics that uses letters or other symbols to represent unknown quantities, called variables. These variables and number values are combined to form equations. The rules of these equations follow the exact same rules as arithmetic, such as the commutative and associative laws for addition and multiplication. Functions are a special type of equation, where one variable can be uniquely defined in terms of the other. Another part of this topic is graphing of equations and functions using the Cartesian coordinate graph or polar coordinates. Also, covered in this topic is set theory or what constitutes a grouping of numbers.
A prescribed finite set of well defined rules or processes for the solutions of a problem in a finite number of steps. Explained in simple English, it is the mathematical formula for an operation, such as computing the check digits on packets of data that travel via packet switched networks.
The alkali earth metals are the elements in group 2 of the periodic table, that is: beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium and radium.
The alkali metals are the elements in group 1 of the periodic table excluding hydrogen, that is: lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, and francium.
An allergy is a sensitivity to a certain substance which, in similar quantity, is tolerated by non-allergic people. The allergen is the specific protein substance that a person is allergic to. The presence of this allergen in the body causes a series of chemical reactions in the immune system which result in individual signs & symptoms. The tendency to be allergic is inherited; the actual allergy is not inherited.
This category contains links to locations with acupuncture, aromatherapy, homeopathy, hypnotherapy, massage, and other therapeutic or herbal remedies.
Alternative health related sites include accupuncture, chinese medicine, energy healing, herbs and meditation.
Associations offering membership to individuals or firms providing alternate dispute resolution (ADR), including mediation, arbitration, and negotiation.
Description Proposed systems for determining governance and/or policy which differ from and are offered as potential replacements for existing political systems.
Alumni listing sites for schools throughout the world can be found in these comprehensive alumni directories. Most have free registration for basic features and offer paid subscriptions for advanced features.
This category lists sites specifically for the non-professional areas of astronomy. Amateurs are also known as "backyard astronomers."
A tradition stemming from the early 20th century, placing a strong emphasis on clarity and rigorous debate. It is conventionally opposed to "Continental Philosophy."
Anarchism is a political theory which aims to create anarchy, "the absence of a master, of a sovereign." [P-J Proudhon, What is Property , p. 264] In other words, anarchism is a political theory which aims to create a society within which individuals freely co-operate together as equals. As such anarchism opposes all forms of hierarchical control - be that control by the state or a capitalist - as harmful to the individual and their individuality as well as unnecessary. From: An Anarchist FAQ,
The scientific study of material remains of past human life and activities in ancient Egypt from the pre-Dynastic to the end of the Ptolemaic Period in 30 BC. It is about the process of archaeological research more than the resulting understanding of history.
This category contains sites covering the many kinds of interactions that occur between animals, their physical habitat and their biological world. Behavior is the interface of the animal with its environment. The scientific study of animal behavior is Ethology.
Ethologists ask such questions as: By what means is the behavior produced? Of what use is it to the animal? How did it develop? What is its evolutionary history?
The animal health industry involves professionals such as veterinarians, technicians, nutritionists, and livestock producers.
Websites concerned with the science and practices involved in raising animals under agricultural conditions, for meat, dairy or draft.
Science is constantly reshaping itself through unexpected observations, new ideas, and revisions to old theories. While terms like "anomalies" or "alternative" may seem pejorative from an orthodox perspective, from an historical view these are the topics are the very life-blood of science. We must have heretics and revolutionaries challenging our beliefs, and advancing the state of the believable, otherwise science will stagnate into dogma.
Apitherapy is the medicinal use of honeybee products.
Landscape Architects is a category providing portfolios and business information for those involved in professional licensed practice, whose focus is on multiple project types and services. Multiple services include graphic design, landscape architecture, signage, urban design, planning and others that are not typically associated with a "traditional practice."
# The art or science of planning and building structures. Sites and categories may include, but not limited to: # Academic Departments # Architectural Photographers # Architectural practices, companies and firms # Organizations, including trade associations, # Preservation societies, and special interest groups. # Building types, such as lighthouses and skyscrapers.