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• Long-term effects of alcohol — Disability adjusted life year for alcohol use disorders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004 …   Wikipedia

• Long-term memory — (LTM) is memory that can last as little as a few days or as long as decades. It differs structurally and functionally from working memory or short term memory, which ostensibly stores items for only around 20 seconds. Biologically, short term… …   Wikipedia

• Long-term potentiation — (LTP) is a persistent increase in synaptic strength following high frequency stimulation of a chemical synapse. Studies of LTP are often carried out in slices of the hippocampus, an important organ for learning and memory. In such studies,… …   Wikipedia

• Long-term care — NOTOC Long term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non medical need of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods of time. It is common for long term care to… …   Wikipedia

• Long-term memory — A system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use. Items of information stored as long term memory may be available for a lifetime. Long term memory is in contrast to short term memory (as I recall). * * * long… …   Medical dictionary

• Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities - LEAPS — Publicly traded options contracts with expiration dates that are longer than one year. Structurally, LEAPS are no different than short term options, but the later expiration dates offer the opportunity for long term investors to gain exposure to… …   Investment dictionary

• long-term potentiation — Increase in the strength of transmission at a synapse with repetitive use that lasts for more than a few minutes. As a form of long term synaptic plasticity it is important as a possible cellular basis of learning and memory storage. It has been… …   Dictionary of molecular biology

• long-term — adj. Long term is used with these nouns: ↑aim, ↑answer, ↑arrangement, ↑benefit, ↑bond, ↑boyfriend, ↑care, ↑change, ↑commitment, ↑complication, ↑confinement, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

• long-term potential yield — The largest harvest that can be taken from a fish stock on a sustainable basis, allowing for variable environmental conditions. This may be estimated in various ways, ranging from taking an average of a time series of historical catches to use of …   Fisheries — dictionary

• 3GPP Long Term Evolution — LTE (Long Term Evolution) is the next major step in mobile radio communications, and will be introduced in 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 8. The aim of this 3GPP project is to improve the Universal Mobile Telecommunications… …   Wikipedia

• E. coli long-term evolution experiment — The E. coli long term evolution experiment (LTEE) is an ongoing study in experimental evolution led by Richard Lenski that has been tracking genetic changes in 12 initially nearly identical populations of asexual Escherichia coli bacteria since… …   Wikipedia