Actinobacteria Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfo ...

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• Bacteria - History and taxonomy
• Bacteria - Metabolism
• Bacteria - Movement
• Bacteria - Groups and identification
• Bacteria - Benefits and dangers
• Bacteria - Miscellaneous
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Bacteria, Bacteria - History and taxonomy, Bacteria - Reproduction, Bacteria - Metabolism, Bacteria - Movement, Bacteria - Groups and identification, Bacteria - Benefits and dangers, Bacteria - Miscellaneous, Bacteria - Sources

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Bacteria are both harmful and useful to the environment, and animals, including humans. The role of bacteria in disease and infection is important. Some bacteria act as pathogens and cause tetanus, typhoid fever, pneumonia, syphilis, cholera, foodborne illness, leprosy, and tuberculosis. Sepsis, a systemic infectious syndrome characterized by shock and massive vasodilation, or localized infection, can be caused by bacteria such as Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, or many gram-negative bacteria. Some bacterial infections can sprea ...

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The human body contains a large number of bacteria, most of them performing tasks that are useful or even essential to human survival. Those that are expected to be present, and that under normal circumstances do not cause disease, are termed normal flora. It is estimated that 500 to 1000 different species of bacteria live in the human body (Sears, 2005). Bacterial cells are much smaller than human cells, and there are about ten times as many bacteria as human cells in the body (1 quadrillion (1015) versus 100 trilli ...

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• Bacteria in the human body - Reference

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Acetobacter Acidiphilium Acidocella Acidomonas Craurococcus Gluconacetobacter Gluconobacter Paracraurococcus Rhodopila Roseococcus Stella Zavarzinia Acetic acid bacteria are bacteria that derive their energy from the oxidation of ethanol to acetic acid during respira ...

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Benefit may refer to: Money, goods, or services provided by a social welfare program. Employee benefits: non-monetary employment compensation. An activity performed for a charitable purpose, as in benefit concert. Benefit, an album by Jethro Tull. Other related archivesBenefit, Employee benefits, Jethro Tull, benefit concert, social welfare

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Ancalochloris Chloroherpeton Clathrochloris Pelodictyon Prostheochloris The green sulfur bacteria (Chlorobiaceae) are a family of phototrophic bacteria. No other bacterial families are known to be closely related to them, and they are accordingly placed in their own phylum (Chlorobi). The phylum is most closely related to Bacteroidetes. Green sulfur bacteria are generally nonmotile (one species has a flagellum), and come in spheres, rods, and spirals. Their envir ...

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• Green sulfur bacteria - External link

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Able Danger was a highly classified United States Special Operations Command military intelligence program under the command of the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM). It was created as a result of a directive from the Joint Chiefs' of Staff in early October 1999 by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hugh Shelton, to develop a Information Operations Campaign Plan against transnational terrorism, "specifically al-Qaida." According to statements by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and confirmed by four others, Able Danger had ident ...

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• Able Danger - Able Danger and the 9/11 Commission
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• Able Danger - Comments by members of the Able Danger team
• Able Danger - Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer
• Able Danger - Navy Captain Scott Phillpott
• Able Danger - Mr. J.D. Smith
• Able Danger - Major Eric Kleinsmith
• Able Danger - Other witnesses
• Able Danger - Media comment
• Able Danger - Skepticism
• Able Danger - The Two Attas theory
• Able Danger - Timing
• Able Danger - Congressional hearings
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Young and Dangerous (古惑仔) is a 1996 Hong Kong movie about a group of triad members and it details their adventures in a fictional triad. It was directed by Andrew Lau Wai Keung. This movie contributed a lot to the public image of triads and was condemned by certain quarters as glorifying secret triad societies. However it was immensely popular in Hong Kong and spun 9 sequels/spin-offs. Its main actors and ...

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Due to the special nature of the blood supply to the human nose and surrounding area, it is possible for retrograde infections from the nasal area to spread to the brain. For this reason, the area from the corners of the mouth to the bridge of the nose, including the nose and maxilla, is known to doctors as the danger triangle of the face. Other related archivesblood, brain, human, maxilla, nose, retrograde infections

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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (1995) is a controversial book by Daniel Dennett that argues that Darwinian processes are the central organising force not only in biology (which is not controversial), but also in most other aspects of the Universe, including the human mind (see Neural Darwinism). Dennett regards Darwinism as a "universal acid" that eats through virtually all traditional beliefs, especially Christianity. He calls Darwin's theory of evolution ...

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Unemployment benefits are sums of money given to the unemployed by the government or a compulsory para-governmental insurance system. Depending on the jurisdiction and the status of the person, those sums may be meager, covering only basic needs (thus a form of basic welfare), or may compensate the lost pay somewhat proportionally to the previous earned salary. They often are part of a larger social security scheme. Unemployment benefits are generally given only to those registering as unemployed, and often on conditions ensuri ...

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• Unemployment benefit - Canada
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• Unemployment benefit - Technical analysis of unemployment benefits

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A benefit concert is a concert featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis. Such events raise both funds and public awareness to address the cause at issue. Benefit concerts typically feature popular performers working for little or no pay. The largest such effort in recent memory was the multi-venue Live 8 concert organized by Bob Geldof, who has arranged a number of similar events. Benefit concerts were also arranged ...

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• Benefit concert - Notable benefit concerts
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Benefit is the third album by Jethro Tull. It was released in April 1970. Benefit album - Personnel. Ian Anderson: flute, vocals Martin Barre: electric guitar Glenn Cornick: bass guitar Clive Bunker: drums John Evan: piano and organ Benefit album - Track Listing. (All songs by Ian Anderson) "With You There To Help Me" - 6:15 "Nothing To Say" - 5:10 "Inside" - 3:46 "Son" ...

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In English law, the benefit of clergy was originally a provision by which clergymen could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead under canon law. Eventually, the course of history transformed it into a mechanism by which first-time offenders could receive a more lenient sentence for some lesser crimes. Benefit of clergy - Origin. Prior to the 12th century, traditional English law courts had been jointly presided over by a bishop and a local secular magistrat ...

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Bacteria A numerous and varied class of microorganisms which exist in the air, earth, water, and in and on the bodies of plants, animals, and men. Bacteria, like all manifested things, are dual in action, being both beneficial and injurious to others: some of them provide the necessary enzymes for functional use, and others produce dangerous toxins. They are vital factors throughout the plant and animal kingdoms between which they are an organic link; and they are also a medium of contact between the astral and physical planes. As such they serve as material agents for certain phases of the operations of the laws of nature on the terrestrial plane.

Bacteria, then, are a host of visible and invisible agents which, on our plane, subconsciously carry out many processes of evolutionary life and death. They are links in the karmic chain by which the divine recorders, who follow the immutable laws in the universal mind, return to each being the results of whatever it was the antecedent cause.

Thus the bacteria of a disease will multiply and produce their injurious toxins only when the karmic conditions within or surrounding the individual provide a suitable culture-medium for them. Even then, the toxemia may or may not be modified or overcome by the natural antitoxins of the blood aided by competent medical treatment. The typical disease germs found inactive in healthy throats, etc., are instances of a karma which, paradoxically, provides a dangerous contact with individual protection. The healthy person may be an unconscious carrier of the disease germ to someone who is due to reap the full effects of causes he had set in motion at some time.

The selective functions of these creative and destructive microorganisms are impersonally, and as it were automatically, directed by the invisible hierarchy of intelligences which guide the nature forces and so affect us physically and metaphysically as we have merited. The whole process is as natural as the analogous way in which a person's trillions of body cells are dominated by, and react to, the stimulation or depression of his harmonious or discordant state of mind and emotions. Both cells and bacteria are living entities, sentient but not intelligent in the human sense.

The typical appearance of bacteria in certain diseases gives them a place as diagnostic signatures of physical conditions. But to regard them as the primal cause of the disease is mistaking the phenomena for the noumena which is working out karmic effects.

(See also: Bacteria, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Definition and meaning of coliform bacteria:

coliform bacteria - bacteria whose presence in water is an indicator of pollution and of potentially dangerous contamination

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Definition and meaning of bacteria:

bacteria - a major group of living organisms in the kingdom Monera. They are microscopic and mostly unicellular, with a relatively simple cell structure lacking a cell nucleus, cytoskeleton, and organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts. Bacteria are genetically distinct from protists, fungi, plants, and animals. Many species of bacteria are pathogenic to other organisms, including humans

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The first description on this class of bacteria appeared 1963 in a publication of the Istituto di Microbiologia of University of Pavia written by the MD, Salvatore Bellini.While observing occasionally bog sediments under his microscope, he noticed a group of bacteria which evidently oriented themselves in unique direction and soon realised that these microrganisms were following the direction of North Pole and they denominated "magnetosensitive bacteria". Successively appeared 1975 in issue of Science, an essay written by the microbio ...

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Magnetotactic bacteria, Magnetotactic bacteria - Introduction, Magnetotactic bacteria - Biology, Magnetotactic bacteria - Magnetism, Magnetotactic bacteria - Magnetosomes, Magnetotactic bacteria - Membrane and proteins, Magnetotactic bacteria - Biomineralisation, Magnetotactic bacteria - Applications, Magnetotactic bacteria - Biotechnology, Magnetotactic bacteria - Medicine, Magnetotactic bacteria - Bibliography

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The unique characteristics of BMP permit practical uses in a variety of fields, improving upon older techniques and introducing completely new ones. Common advantages across these areas include: being surrounded by a double layer helps form compounds that are easily dispersed in watery solutions, as opposed to articles that are obtained artificially [4] their size renders them superparamagnetic, that is, they quickly follow changes in the external magnetic field without any remnants of the preceding polarity [10]. Magnetotactic bacteria - Bi ...

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