`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

Personal Emergency Response Systems ( PERS ), or Telecare ( UK term ), are a particular sort of assistive technology that use electronic sensors connected to an alarm system to help caregivers manage risk and help vulnerable people stay independent at home longer.

The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, a love affair, or other major life undertakings.

Epilepsy is characterized by a long term risk of recurrent seizures.

Self medication with small amounts of alcohol has been shown to give short term relief from tremor, although this form of self-medication is not recommended due to an increased risk of alcohol dependence or abuse.

It was Shepherd who first used the English term " first aid for the injured " First aid training began to spread through the empire through organisations such as St. John, often starting, as in the UK, with high risk activities such as ports and railways.

Hypoglycemia ( common usage ) is also a term in popular culture and alternative medicine for a common, often self-diagnosed, condition characterized by shakiness and altered mood and thinking, but without measured low glucose or risk of severe harm.

Jones referred to his fund as being " hedged ", a term then commonly used on Wall Street, to describe how the fund managed risk exposure from overall market movement.

To minimize the risk that another general might attempt to challenge him, Caesar passed a law that subjected governors to term limits.

The treaty does not include anti-tank mines, cluster bombs or claymore-type mines operated in command mode and focuses specifically on anti-personnel mines, because these pose the greatest long term ( post-conflict ) risk to humans and animals since they are typically designed to be triggered by any movement or pressure of only a few kilograms, whereas anti-tank mines require much more weight ( or a combination of factors that would exclude humans ).

A 2005 study linked long term ( over 3 months ) use of NSAIDs, including ibuprofen, with a 1. 4 times increased risk of erectile dysfunction.

There are concerns of atypical femoral fractures and osteonecrosis of the jaw with long term use however these risk are low.

The risk can be minimized by judicious short term prescriptions.

The term of ' risk transfer ' is often used in place of risk sharing in the mistaken belief that you can transfer a risk to a third party through insurance or outsourcing.

Within the entire Risk Management literature ( and this section of Wikipedia ) you will find little or no reference to the human part of the risk equation other than what might be implied by the term ' compliant '.

Long term use decreases the risk of relapse.

Some sources prefer the term safer sex to more precisely reflect the fact that these practices reduce, but do not completely eliminate, the risk of disease transmission.

The term safer sex in Canada and the United States has gained greater use by health workers, reflecting that risk of transmission of sexually transmitted infections in various sexual activities is a continuum.

The term was related with the need to develop educational programs for the group considered at risk, homosexual men.

" Safer sex " is thought to be a more aggressive term which may make it more obvious to individuals that any type of sexual activity carries a certain degree of risk.

Asbestos is a long term health risk for urban explorers, along with breathing in contaminants from dried bird feces, otherwise known as pigeon lung, a form of hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

According to the Lena Komileva writing for The Financial Times, Capital Markets overtook bank lending as the leading source of long term finance in 2009-this reflects the additional risk aversion and regulation of banks following the 2008 financial crisis.

While the term in non-scientific publications is often used interchangeably with anorexia nervosa, many possible causes exist for a decreased appetite, some of which may be harmless, while others indicate a serious clinical condition or pose a significant risk.

The K factor, a term used to denote the rate of heat transmission through a material ( B.t.u./sq. ft. of material/hr./*0F./in. of thickness ) ranges from 0.24 to 0.28 for flexible urethane foams and from 0.12 to 0.16 for rigid urethane foams, depending upon the formulation, density, cell size, and nature of blowing agents used.

The term or, which gives the ( unnormalised ) relative probability of a state, is called the Boltzmann factor and appears often in the study of physics and chemistry.

A related concept, the " Finagle factor ", is an ad hoc multiplicative or additive term in an equation which can only be justified by the fact that it gives more correct results.

Each internal line corresponds to a factor of the corresponding virtual particle's propagator ; each vertex where lines meet gives a factor derived from an interaction term in the Lagrangian, and incoming and outgoing lines carry an energy, momentum, and spin.

Growth factor is sometimes used interchangeably among scientists with the term cytokine.

While growth factor implies a positive effect on cell division, cytokine is a neutral term with respect to whether a molecule affects proliferation.

The development of medical knowledge was a significant factor in further connotations of the term.

:* Perfect factor mobility – In the long run factors of production are perfectly mobile, allowing free long term adjustments to changing market conditions.

Another important factor that affects the accuracy of tree reconstruction is whether the data analyzed actually contain a useful phylogenetic signal, a term that is used generally to denote whether a character evolves slowly enough to have the same state in closely related taxa as opposed to varying randomly.

In its common meaning, the term is used to identify a characteristic, a feature, a measurable factor that can help in defining a particular system.

* p is an integer factor of the constant term a < sub > 0 </ sub >, and

If we shift the constant term to the right hand side, factor a p and multiply by q < sup > n </ sup >, we get

Although " nurture " has historically been referred to as the care given to children by the parents, with the mother playing a role of particular importance, this term is now regarded by some as any environmental ( not genetic ) factor in the contemporary nature versus nurture debate.

In telecommunication, electronics and the electrical power industry, the term demand factor has the following meanings:

The noise factor ( a linear term ) is more often expressed as the noise figure ( in decibels ) using the conversion:

A key factor in the CTEA ’ s passage was a 1993 European Union ( EU ) directive instructing EU members to establish a baseline copyright term of life plus 70 years and to deny this longer term to the works of any non-EU country whose laws did not secure the same extended term.

The coefficient of the cos ( ωt ) harmonic has two terms, one that varies linearly with V and one that varies with the cube of V. In fact, the coefficient of cos ( ωt ) has nearly the same form as the transfer function, except for the factor ¾ on the cubic term.

Hence, the term " conversion factor " is the multiplier which yields the result, not a divisor from that viewpoint.

For another example, in a region devastated by nuclear radiation, such as the Bikini Atoll, capacity to survive gamma rays to sexual maturity and ( for the female ) to term is a key ecological selection factor, although it is neither " natural " nor sexual.

Another proposed factor in long term temperature change is the Uplift-Weathering Hypothesis, first put forward by T. C. Chamberlin in 1899 and later independently proposed in 1988 by Maureen Raymo and colleagues, where upthrusting mountain ranges expose minerals to weathering resulting in their chemical conversion to carbonates thereby removing CO < sub > 2 </ sub > from the atmosphere and cooling the earth.

Peripheral neuritis may be a limiting factor for long term use of thalidomide.

In mathematics, a coefficient is a multiplicative factor in some term of an expression ( or of a series ); it is usually a number, but in any case does not involve any variables of the expression.