Selective reduction — (or fetal reduction) is the practice of reducing the number of fetuses in a multifetal pregnancy (i.e. those involving more than one fetus). With selective reduction, a specific fetus or fetuses are selected for termination, usually after a… … Wikipedia
Selective Service System — Agency overview Formed May 18, 1917 September 16, 1940 Headquarters Arlington County, Virginia, United States … Wikipedia
Selective school (New South Wales) — Sydney Boys High School, a NSW Selective School Selective schools in New South Wales, Australia are government high schools operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, that have accepted their students based upon their… … Wikipedia
Selective calling — SECAL redirects here. For the French wine grape also known as Secal, see Jurançon (grape). In a conventional, analog two way radio system, a standard radio has noise squelch or carrier squelch which allows a radio to receive all transmissions.… … Wikipedia
Selective tubal occlusion procedure — (The acronym for selective tubal occlusion procedure is STOP.) A nonsurgical form of permanent birth control in which a physician inserts a 4 centimeter (1.6 inch) long metal coil into each one of a woman s two fallopian tubes via a scope passed… … Medical dictionary
Sex-selective abortion and infanticide — Sex selective abortion is the targeted abortion of a fetus based upon its sex. This is done after a determination is made (usually by ultrasound but also rarely by amniocentesis or another procedure) that the fetus is of an undesired sex. Sex… … Wikipedia
Sex-selective abortion — is the practice of terminating a pregnancy based upon the predicted sex of the baby. The selective abortion of female fetuses is most common in areas where cultural norms value male children over female children,[1] especially in parts of People… … Wikipedia
Ion selective electrode — An ion selective electrode (ISE), also known as a specific ion electrode (SIE), is a transducer (or sensor) that converts the activity of a specific ion dissolved in a solution into an electrical potential, which can be measured by a voltmeter or … Wikipedia
Link Access Procedure for Modems — (LAPM) is part of the V.42 error correction protocol for modems.LAPM is an error control protocol defined in ITU T recommendations V.42. Like many data link layer protocols, it is a variant of HDLC. Like the Microcom Networking Protocols that… … Wikipedia
Laser-assisted new attachment procedure — (LANAP), is a therapy designed for the effective treatment of periodontitis through regeneration rather than resection. This therapy, and the laser which performs it (The PerioLase MVP 7, Millennium Dental Technologies, Inc.) have long been in… … Wikipedia
Multilink Procedure HDLC — High Level Data Link Control (HDLC) ist ein von der ISO normiertes Netzprotokoll ISO/IEC 13239:2002. Es ist innerhalb des ISO/OSI Modells in Schicht 2, der Sicherungsschicht einzugliedern. HDLC basiert in seiner Grundstruktur auf dem SDLC… … Deutsch Wikipedia