When you get a cut, all sorts of bacteria and viruses enter your body through the break in the skin. When you get a splinter you also have the sliver of wood as a foreign object inside your body. Your immune sy
For most of us, urinating is probably an inconvenience at best. But being aware of your body – even how it eliminates waste – can be an important way to monitor your health now and protect it in the future. So, what’s “normal” when it comes to peeing? We took the question to...
Your immune system responds and eliminates the invaders while the skin heals itself and seals the puncture. In rare cases the immune system misses something and the cut gets infected. It gets inflamed and will often fill with pus. Inflammation and pus are both side-effects of the immune ...
Bile from the liver helps in digestion of fat and it also eliminates waste. Next step in the digestion is the liver. There are also other things at work in the liver such as peristalsis. Peristalsis is when food moves through and mixes up in the digestive secretions. The functions of the...
Phagocytosis is the process by which the body takes in and eliminates particles, microorganisms, and damaged or dying cells. Specialized cells within the body perform this task. They include macrophages, dendritic cells, neutrophils, osteoblasts, and monocytes. Phagocytosis helps to keep the body in...
Unlike the two-stage estimation method, the approach (3) estimates both the efficiency and the influence of covariates (\(\varvec{Z}_{u}\)) on the efficiency in a single stage. This method is thus more statistically efficient and eliminates the need for standard error correction via a boot...
These are some of the shoes designed keeping amputees in mind. They even let you buy a single shoe or create a pair of different sizes. This not only cuts costs but also eliminates waste. Here are some tips to help you find the shoe that will add a spring to your feet. ...
The key to managing inventory is having a single system where all your retail operations naturally work together. This provides real-time visibility across your business without the complexity of maintaining multiple systems or integrations. What is the main purpose of inventory management?
This improves performance from the clients’ perspective, because it eliminates the need for a new (and time-consuming) SSL handshake to be conducted each time a request is made. Most servers do not purge sessions or ticket keys, thus increasing the risk that a server compromise would leak da...
But its promise is extraordinary: an RDS treatment that costs less to make, doesn’t require a specialist to administer, and eliminates the need for intubation. In other words, a therapy currently limited to the most advanced hospitals could become accessible in rural clinics and community ...