* Physical anthropology, which studies the physical characteristics of peoples, ancient and modern.

Physical characteristics that make a colored stone valuable are color, clarity to a lesser extent ( emeralds will always have a number of inclusions ), cut, unusual optical phenomena within the stone such as color zoning, and asteria ( star effects ).

Physical cosmology is the science that attempts to explain all observations relevant to the development and characteristics of the universe as a whole.

* Physical layer: This layer specifies the physical, electrical, functional and procedural characteristics to control the physical link between a DTE and a DCE.

Physical laws describe the behavior and characteristics of each of these methods.

* ISO / IEC 7810 Identification cards — Physical characteristics

ISO / IEC 7810 Identification cards — Physical characteristics is an international standard that defines the physical characteristics for identification cards.

Physical and chemical characteristics of volcanic ash are primarily controlled by the style of volcanic eruption.

Physical and biological characteristics of a rare marine habitat: sub-tidal seagrass beds of offshore islands.

Although the Buddha was not represented in human form until around the 1st century AD ( see Buddhist art ), the Physical characteristics of the Buddha are described in one of the central texts of the traditional Pali canon, the Digha Nikaya, in the discourse titled " Sutra of the Marks " ( Pali: Lakkhana Sutta ) ( D. iii. 142ff.

Physical fitness has been defined as a set of attributes or characteristics that people have or achieve that relates to the ability to perform physical activity. The above definition from Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General is the most common currently used definition of physical fitness.

* Physical characteristics of sharks

Time magazine reported in 1999 that, in response to skepticism from physicist Robert Park, Josephson had challenged the American Physical Society ( APS ) to oversee a replication by Benveniste, using " a randomized double-blind test ", of his claimed ability to transfer the characteristics of homeopathically diluted water over the Internet.

* ISO / IEC 15693-1: 2000 Identification cards — Contactless integrated circuit ( s ) cards — Vicinity cards — Part 1: Physical characteristics

Physical characteristics of people with Stickler can include flat cheeks, flat nasal bridge, small upper jaw, pronounced upper lip groove, small lower jaw, and palate abnormalities, these tend to lessen with age and normal growth and palate abnormalities can be treated with routine surgery.

* Physical / electrical characteristics of hierarchical digital interfaces REC-G. 703 / e at ITU. INT

Physical geography is a subfield of geography, closely related to geology, that focuses on the spatial characteristics of natural processes, within the hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere.

However, in 2004, Maher concluded that " Physical treatments, such as acupuncture, backschool, hydrotherapy, lumbar supports, magnets, TENS, traction, ultrasound, Pilates therapy, Feldenkrais therapy, Alexander technique, and craniosacral therapy are either of unknown value or ineffective and so should not be considered " when treating lower back pain with an evidence-based approach.

Physical maladies that prevent effective communication, such as actual deafness or blindness preventing messages from being received as they were intended.

* Physical deformation of the particle ( e. g., stretching ) may increase the van der Waals forces more than stabilization forces ( such as electrostatic ), resulting coagulation of colloids at certain orientations.

Physical mediumship includes events such as table turning, production of quasi-physical objects ( even personages ) and sometimes involving so-called ectoplasm.

Physical theories that incorporate time, such as general relativity, are said to work in 4-dimensional " spacetime ", ( defined as a Minkowski space ).

* Physical record-important messages that need to be retained ( e. g. invoices ; government notification such as tax or immigration ) can be kept relatively easily and securely.

Physical factors that can affect libido include: endocrine issues such as hypothyroidism, levels of available testosterone in the bloodstream of both women and men, the effect of certain prescription medications ( for example flutamide ), various lifestyle factors and the attractiveness and biological fitness of one's partner.

Physical optics is a more comprehensive model of light, which includes wave effects such as diffraction and interference that cannot be accounted for in geometric optics.

Physical properties such as length, mass or time, by themselves, are not physically invariant.

Physical probabilities, which are also called objective or frequency probabilities, are associated with random physical systems such as roulette wheels, rolling dice and radioactive atoms.

Physical therapists also practice in non-patient care roles such as health policy, health insurance, health care administration and as health care executives.

Physical attributes such as speed, agility and strength are essential to pole vaulting effectively, but technical skill is an equally if not more important element.

Physical security issues are also a concern, from deterring shoulder surfing to more sophisticated physical threats such as video cameras and keyboard sniffers.

In 1987, the American Physical Society concluded that a global shield such as " Star Wars " was not only impossible with existing technology, but that ten more years of research was needed to learn whether it might ever be feasible.

Tirana is host to academic institutions such as the University of Tirana, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Agricultural University of Tirana, Academy of Physical Education and Sports, University of Arts ( Academy of Arts of Albania ), the Academy of Sciences of Albania, and the Skanderbeg Military University, national and international academic research institutions, as well as NGOs.

Some journals, such as Nature, Science, PNAS, and Physical Review Letters, have a reputation of publishing articles that mark a fundamental breakthrough in their respective fields.

Physical access control can be achieved by a human ( a guard, bouncer, or receptionist ), through mechanical means such as locks and keys, or through technological means such as access control systems like the mantrap.

Other prominent journals such as Science and Physical Review also retracted Schön's papers.

Physical and chemical simulations have also direct realistic uses, rather than research uses ; in chemical engineering, for example, process simulations are used to give the process parameters immediately used for operating chemical plants, such as oil refineries.

Occupational therapy and Physical therapy regimens of assisted stretching, strengthening, functional tasks, and / or targeted physical activity and exercise are usually the chief ways to keep spastic CP well-managed, although if the spasticity is too much for the person to handle, other remedies may be considered, such as various antispasmodic medications, botox, baclofen, or even a neurosurgery known as a selective dorsal rhizotomy ( which eliminates the spasticity by eliminating the nerves causing it ).

Physical properties of water such as salinity have a large effect on its motion in the oceans.

Physical agents such as extreme temperatures and ultraviolet or solar radiation can be damaging to the skin over prolonged exposure.

The Vickers test has a great advantage of using one hardness scale to test all materials. The first reference to the Vickers indenter with low loads was made in the annual report of the National Physical Laboratory in 1932.

Physical information about the behavior of the particle is extracted from the wavefunction by constructing probability density functions for various quantities ; for example, the p. d. f.

Physical examples of source functions include the force driving a wave on a string, or the charge or current density in the Lorenz gauge of electromagnetism.

In Maxwell's 1861 paper ' On Physical Lines of Force ', magnetic field strength H was directly equated with pure vorticity ( spin ), whereas B was a weighted vorticity that was weighted for the density of the vortex sea.

* Physical homogeneity ( i. e., uniform mass distribution ) making the density function ρ ( r ) become constant ( elementary calculations, or generally an approximation )