* Specific leaf area, a botanical term describing a property of a leaf on a plant, often used as a measure of leaf " thickness "

The power-to-weight ratio ( Specific Power ) formula for an engine ( power plant ) is the power generated by the engine divided by the mass.

Specific plant species that can induce such contact dermatitis include Western Poison Oak, a widespread plant in the western USA.

Specific duties may relate to regulation, promotion, agricultural research, price supports and agricultural subsidies, plant diseases and invasive species.

Specific test for causative conditions are performed, often including chest x-ray, urinalysis, liver and kidney function tests, and serologic tests for parasitic and connective tissue diseases.

Specific absorption rate ( SAR ) is a measure of the rate at which energy is absorbed by the body when exposed to a radio frequency ( RF ) electromagnetic field ; although, it can also refer to absorption of other forms of energy by tissue, including ultrasound.

Specific elements of Akan culture are especially seen in neighboring West African peoples and some Central African populations.

Specific tea culture has developed in the Czech Republic in recent years, including many styles of tearooms.

Specific culture formed around the Hamoun with a way of life suited to the desert wetlands.

Specific trends of modernism that are generally cited are formal purity, medium specificity, art for art's sake, authenticity, universality, originality and revolutionary or reactionary tendency, i. e. the avant-garde.

Specific effects observed after ingestion can include but are not limited to tachycardia, dilated pupils, restlessness or arousal, euphoria, open and closed eye visuals ( common at medium to high doses ), synesthesia ( e. g. hearing colours and seeing sounds ), increased body temperature, headache, sweating and chills, and nausea.

* medium and higher density residential ( consistent with the provisions of Residential B8 and B9 Area Specific Policies of the Territory Plan ) adjacent to the commercial centre, main community facility site and along Horse Park Drive ;

Specific kinds of risk that may give rise to claims are known as perils.

Specific diagnosis of norovirus is routinely made by polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) assays or real-time PCR assays, which give results within a few hours.

* Specific storage or storativity: a measure of the amount of water a confined aquifer will give up for a certain change in head ;

* Specific yield or drainable porosity: a measure of the amount of water an unconfined aquifer will give up when completely drained ;

He is always right behind General Specific, and despite being much smarter, he would prefer to receive orders than give them.

Specific rail-to-rail comparators with p-n-p input transistors, like the LM139 family, allow input potential to drop 0. 3 volts below the negative supply rail, but do not allow it to rise above the positive rail.

Specific figure skates were created in response to the rise of figure skating's popularity in the 19th century, coinciding with the beginnings of formalized competitions such as the World Figure Skating Championships.

Specific incentives to reform were shortages of labor and energy and the growing importance of foreign trade in the " thaw " years of the mid-1960s.

Specific mutations in p53 can disrupt these functions, allowing an abnormal cell to continue growing unchecked, resulting in the development of tumors.

Specific functional responsibilities of the Council of Ministers included directing and planning the national economy ; solving problems growing out of membership in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( Comecon — see Appendix B ); coordinating and implementing social policy decisions that have been agreed upon with the support and concurrence of the Free German Trade Union Federation ( Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund -- FDGB ); instructing and controlling subordinate levels of government, i. e., the councils at district, county, and community levels that implemented the laws and decisions of the central government ; improving the functioning of the system of " democratic centralism " within the state apparatus ; and carrying out the basic foreign policy principles of the socialist state.

Specific humidity is a ratio of the water vapor content of the mixture to the total air content on a mass basis.

Specific attention is divided into: the site, location and solar orientation of the building, local sun path, the prevailing level of insolation ( latitude / sunshine / clouds / precipitation ( meteorology ) ), design and construction quality / materials, placement / size / type of windows and walls, and incorporation of solar-energy-storing thermal mass with heat capacity.

This increased fuel consumption offsets somewhat the savings in oxidizer mass ; these losses are in turn offset by the higher Isp ( Specific impulse ) of the air-breathing engine.

Specific volume is volume per mass, the reciprocal of density which equals mass per volume.

Specific impulse ( Isp ) measures how much thrust can be derived from a given mass of fuel, and is a standard figure of merit for rocketry.

Specific gravity is the ratio of the density ( mass of a unit volume ) of a substance to the density ( mass of the same unit volume ) of a reference substance.

Specific radioactivity S is defined as radioactivity per unit mass of the radionuclide:

Specific humidity is the proportion of the mass of water vapor per unit mass of the moist air sample ( dry air plus the water vapor ); it is closely related to humidity ratio and always lower in value.

* Specific volume is the volume of the mixture ( dry air plus the water vapor ) containing one unit of mass of “ dry air ”.

* Specific heat capacity, in physics, a substance's heat capacity per unit mass, usually denoted by the symbol c or s

* Specific impulse, the change in momentum per unit mass of propellant of a propulsion system

Specific energy is defined as the energy per unit mass.

* Power-to-weight ratio / Specific energy-energy per unit mass

Specific activity is equal to the rate of reaction multiplied by the volume of reaction divided by the mass of total protein.

Specific staining by DEAE-cellulose treated Af and Af, although clearly distinguishable under the microscope from either nonspecific staining or autofluorescence of cells, was not satisfactorily photographed to show such differences in spite of many attempts with black and white and color photography.

Specific cortical cells produce particular hormones including aldosterone, cortisol, and androgens such as androstenedione.

HeLa cells have been used to define cancer markers in RNA, and have been used to establish an RNAi Based Identification System and Interference of Specific Cancer Cells.

Specific parts of the brain such as the supraoptic nucleus produce oxytocin which acts on cells in locations such as the ventral pallidum to produce the behavioral effects of oxytocin.

LNCaP cells also express Prostate Specific Antigen ( PSA ).