Beta particles can be used to treat health conditions such as eye and bone cancer and are also used as tracers.

Beta particles are also used in quality control to test the thickness of an item, such as paper, coming through a system of rollers.

Beta particles are able to penetrate living matter to a certain extent and can change the structure of struck molecules.

** Beta particles ( electrons ) are more penetrating, but still can be absorbed by a few millimeters of aluminum.

Beta particles emitted from the isotopic sample transfer energy to the solvent molecules: the π cloud of the aromatic ring absorbs the energy of the emitted particle.

Beta burns tend to be shallow as beta particles are not able to penetrate deep into the person ; these burns can be similar to sunburn.

" Beta burns " are shallow surface burns, usually of skin and less often of lungs or gastrointestinal tract, caused by beta particles, typically from hot particles or dissolved radionuclides that came to direct contact with or close proximity to the body.

Beta blockers are used in the prophylaxis of exertional angina by reducing the work the heart is allowed to perform below the level that would provoke an angina attack.

* Beta brasses, with 45 – 50 % zinc content, can only be worked hot, and are harder, stronger, and suitable for casting.

The two stars of Alpha and Beta Centauri are often referred to as the " Southern Pointers " or just " The Pointers ", allowing people to easily find the asterism of the Southern Cross or the constellation of Crux.

The four main stars that form the asterism are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta Crucis.

The dogs ' heads are marked by Alpha and Beta Centauri.

The two bright stars are ( left ) Alpha Centauri and ( right ) Beta Centauri.

Alpha and Beta Delphini are named Sualocin and Rotanev, respectively.

Beta and gamma subunits of G-protein are shown by blue and red, respectively.

Beta blockers, typically used to treat high blood pressure, are a class of drugs that offset this effect, reducing rapid pulse associated with the sensation of palpitations, and decreasing tremor and anxiety.

Beta oxidation is the metabolic process by which fatty acids are broken down in the mitochondria and / or in peroxisomes to generate acetyl-CoA.

Others, such as Beta Colony and Komarr, can only be inhabited by people if they are gathered in cities under domes or arcologies with a controlled climate.

Star Trek Star Charts place the Romulan Empire into the Beta Quadrant of the galaxy, however, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, they are referred to as an Alpha Quadrant power.

Beta and Gamma Trianguli Australis are white main sequence stars and round out the triangle.

* Amerigo Vespucci maps the two stars Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, as well as the stars of the constellation Crux, which are below the horizon in Europe.

The Beta Israel, though somewhat disputed as descendants of ancient Israelites, are widely recognized in Israel as Ethiopian Jews.

In addition, there are several Technical Colleges in Richmond including ITT Technical Institute, ECPI College of Technology and Beta Tech.

Beta cells ( beta-cells, β-cells ) are a type of cell in the pancreas located in the so-called islets of Langerhans.

Recently, Francis and Anderson proposed that a systematic effect on Hipparcos parallax errors for stars in clusters biases calculation using the weighted mean, and gave a Hipparcos parallax distance of 126 pc, and photometric distance 132 pc based on stars in the AB Doradus, Tucana-Horologium and Beta Pictoris moving groups, which are similar in age and composition to the Pleiades.

Beta Cephei ( β Cep ) variables, or Beta Canis Majoris variables, as these stars are sometimes called, especially in Europe ) undergo short period pulsations in the order of 0. 1 – 0. 6 days with an amplitude of 0. 01 – 0. 3 magnitudes ( 1 % to 30 % change in luminosity ).

Beta Lyrae ( β Lyr ) variables are extremely close binaries, named after the star Sheliak.

Beta decay is the release of a beta particle, a high-energy electron.

Beta can be cut off by an aluminium sheet just a few millimetres thick and are electrons.

Beta plus ( or positron ) decay of a radioactive tracer isotope is the source of the positrons used in positron emission tomography ( PET scan ).

Beta testing takes place at customers ' sites, and involves testing by a group of customers who use the system at their own locations and provide feedback, before the system is released to other customers.

Beta sheets consist of beta strands connected laterally by at least two or three backbone hydrogen bonds, forming a generally twisted, pleated sheet.

* GW7, Beta Principle by Bruce Nesmith ( ISBN 0-88038-404-2 )

The roots of the Vorkosigan Saga lie in an early short story by Bujold, " Dreamweaver's Dilemma ", which features a planet called Beta Colony and a character with the last name of Naismith.

After being captured by Barrayarans and then escaping twice, she eventually has to escape Beta and flees to Barrayar, becoming Lady Vorkosigan.

These calculations show that relatively near target stars ( Alpha PsA, Beta Pictoris ) can be seeded by milligrams of launched microbes ; while seeding the Rho Ophiochus star-forming cloud requires hundreds of kilograms of dispersed capsules.

* Seven Sisters ( Beta Radio album ), an album by the American band Beta Radio

; Lambda calculus: A computation consists of an initial lambda expression ( or two if you want to separate the function and its input ) plus a finite sequence of lambda terms, each deduced from the preceding term by one application of Beta reduction.

The much reduced constellation lost several brighter stars to neighbouring constellations: Beta Telescopii became Eta Sagittarii, which it had been before Lacaille placed it in Telescopium, Gamma was placed in Scorpio and renamed G Scorpii by Benjamin Gould, Theta Telescopii reverted to its old appellation of d Ophiuchi, and Sigma Telescopii was placed in Corona Australis.

At Yale, he was a member of the Linonian Society, a literary and debating society ; Skull and Bones, the secret society co-founded by his father in 1832 ; and the Beta chapter of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.

Beta 1 of NT 5. 0 was released in September 1997, followed by Beta 2 in August 1998.

A MMOFPS based on the series, Soldier of Fortune Online was published in Korea by Dragonfly and went in Closed Beta on August 12, 2010 and ended on August 16, 2010.

Beta radiation, consisting of electron s or positron s, is halted by an aluminum plate.

The " gain " of a bipolar transistor normally refers to forward current transfer ratio, either h < sub > FE </ sub > (" Beta ", the static ratio of I < sub > c </ sub > divided by I < sub > b </ sub > at some operating point ), or sometimes h < sub > fe </ sub > ( the small-signal current gain, the slope of the graph of I < sub > c </ sub > against I < sub > b </ sub > at a point ).

These were occultations of the stars Spica and Beta Scorpii by the moon, a few nights apart.

The claim that he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa is not substantiated by the Phi Beta Kappa membership directory.