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Strain

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strain is the geometrical expression of deformation caused by the action of stress on a physical body. Strain is calculated by first assuming a change between two body states: the beginning state and the final state.
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strain is used in three related ways.

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A strain is a genetic variant or subtype of a virus or bacterium. For example, a "flu strain" is a certain biological form of the influenza or "flu" virus. Compare clade.
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strain is an injury to a muscle in which the muscle fibers tear as a result of overstretching. Strains are also colloquially known as pulled muscles. The equivalent injury to a ligament is a sprain.
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A strain is a series of musical phrases that create a distinct melody of a piece. A strain is often referred to as a "section" of a musical piece. Often, a strain is repeated for the sake of instilling the melody clearly. This is so in ragtime and marches.
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In chemistry a molecule experiences strain when in a chemical conformation there exist unfavorable bond angles or bond distances. Strain energy is released when the molecule can relax to a conformation with less strain or when the molecule interacts in a suitable chemical reaction.
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Strain is manga written by Yoshiyuki Okamura, and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami. This is the same art team (writer and illustrator) who created the popular manga Sanctuary.
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Christina Strain is a comic book artist (colorist) currently working with Marvel Comics. She was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1981. Christina got her start in comics working for Crossgen in 2003.
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Isaac G. Strain was born March 4, 1821, in Roxbury, Pennsylvania, of Scots-Irish origin and died May 14, 1857, in Aspinwall, Colombia. In 1838 he joined the U.S. Navy to apprentice at sea and become a midshipman.
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Strain is the fourth studio album by the American industrial/electronic band Flesh Field. The four tracks "This Broken Dream," "Recoil," "Amoeba" and "Epiphany" were intended for the two EPs (Inferior, Conquer Me) but were reworked for Strain.
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Flesh Field is an electronic/industrial band formed in 1996 by Ian Ross in Columbus, Ohio. Rian Miller joined the band in 1997 to contribute female vocals. Rian has since been replaced by another female vocalist, Wendy Yanko.
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Strain 121 is a single-celled microbe, of the domain Archaea. Originally found 200 miles (300 km) away from Puget Sound in a hydrothermal vent, it is a hyperthermophile, able to survive and reproduce at 121 °C (250 °F).
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Celsius is, or relates to, the Celsius temperature scale (previously known as the centigrade scale). The degree Celsius (symbol: °C) can refer to a specific temperature on the Celsius scale
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The Ames strain is one of 89 strains of the anthrax bacterium (Bacillus anthracis). It was isolated from a diseased cow that died in Texas in 1981. [1] Researchers at the time mistakenly believed the strain came from Ames, Iowa and mislabeled the specimen.
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Anthrax
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Microphotograph of a Gram stain the bacterium Bacillus anthracis which causes anthrax.
ICD-10 A 22.
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Strain theory can refer to;

In chemistry:
  • Baeyer strain theory, a principle in chemistry.
In social sciences:
  • In criminology and the sociology of deviance, the strain theories are related to the concept of Anomie.

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Ring strain is an organic chemistry term that describes the destabilization of a cyclic molecule—such as a cycloalkane—due to the non-favorable high energy spatial orientations of its atoms.
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Shear strain is a strain that acts parallel to the face of a material that it is acting on. Normal strain acts perpendicular to the face of that it is acting on. There are two ways to interpret shear strain: the average shear strain and the engineering shear strain.
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The Andromeda Strain
Author Michael Crichton
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Techno-thriller
Publisher Alfred A.
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Strained tendon is a German band whose music and artwork is experimental. It was founded in 1995 in the town of Winterberg, Germany.

The members are: Tobias Basedow (piano,keyboard,voice,arrangement)
Thomas Hetzler (guitar,voice,producer,artwork)

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The Acacia Strain is a four-piece metalcore band based out of Chicopee, Massachusetts, USA. The band is currently signed to Prosthetic Records. The band as a whole has been together since 2001 but has undergone many member changes.
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Lunar Strain is the first album released by Swedish, melodic death metal band In Flames, in 1994. In this release, vocals were sung by Mikael Stanne, the vocalist of Dark Tranquillity, who was a session musician for In Flames at the time.
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In Flames is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden founded in 1990. Along with Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates, they pioneered what is now known as melodic death metal.
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new business strain. This is a concept dealt with regularly by actuaries.

New business strain occurs because the initial outgo (such as commission, expenses, reserves, etc.
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In general, a sieve separates wanted/desired elements from unwanted material using a tool such as a mesh, net or other filtration or distillation methods. The word "sift" derives from this term.
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In general, a sieve separates wanted/desired elements from unwanted material using a tool such as a mesh, net or other filtration or distillation methods. The word "sift" derives from this term.
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Cooking is the act of preparing food for eating by the application of heat. It encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to alter the flavor or digestibility of food.
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A strain of plaintive music, played on stringed instruments, and flutes, recalled my attention to the hidden shrine.
Of course, I wanted to put my head forward and take the carriage up with a will, as we had been used to do; but no, I had to pull with my head up now, and that took all the spirit out of me, and the strain came on my back and legs.
`Then first in Delos did I and Homer, singers both, raise our strain -- stitching song in new hymns -- Phoebus Apollo with the golden sword, whom Leto bare.
 
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