Resistance can mean one of: inner resistance antibiotic resistance resistance to a disease (see related subject immunology) a political or military resistance movement against foreign occupation, or more rarely, against one's own government Resistance (socialist youth organisation) (Australia) Psychodynamic resistance Resistance Records In physics, resistance can be any force that opposes motion. Its opposite is conductance. Air resistance

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When resistance may depend on voltage and current, differential resistance, incremental resistance or slope resistance is defined as the slope of the V-I graph at a particular point, thus: This quantity is sometimes called simply resistance, although the two definitions are equivalent only for an ohmic component such as an ideal resistor. If the V-I graph is not monotonic (i.e. it has a peak or a trough), the differential resistance will be negative for some values of volt ...

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Hóra Sfakíon is famous as one of the centers of the resistance against the occupying forces of both the Venetians and the Turks. The impenetrable White Mountains to the north combined with the rocky beaches on the south helped the locals fight off all invaders. Anopolis, a village near Hóra Sfakíon, is the birthplace of one of the most celebrated Cretan revolutionaries, Daskalogiannis. Patrick Leigh Fermor wrote about the tall proud Sfakians and their resistance to occupation. Many tales of revolts and uprisings in Crete start in the mountains of western Crete - mountain guerillas, pal ...

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As of July 2002, there were reports of a woman in the city of Detroit, United States, having been infected by a strain of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to vancomycin. She was kept in isolation to prevent the infection from being spread to others. Resistance to vancomycin, such as in the above case, appears to be a growing problem for healthcare sector. With vancomycin being the last-line antibiotic for serious Gram-positive infections there is a fear that resistance to even this will result in a return to the days whe ...

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Over time, initiatives such as Firegrl and The Street Harassment Project have developed to call attention to and combat street harassment. With the advent of Internet and cameraphone technology, photographing and disseminating pictures of street harassers has emerged as one popular intervention. In the summer of 2005, Thao Nguyen photographed, with her cell phone camera, a man who masturbated in front of her in a New York subway car. That photograph, which she posted online on a photoblog, was subsequently published by numerous New Yo ...

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The United Partisan Organization was formed on January 21, 1942 in the Vilna Ghetto. It took on the motto: "We will not allow them to take us like beasts to the slaughter." This was one of the first resistance organizations that was established in the ghettos during World War II. Unlike in other ghettos, the resistance movement in the Vilna Ghetto was not run by ghetto officials. Jacob Gens, head of the ghetto, cooperated with German officials in stopping armed struggle. The UPO brought together socialist-Zionists, right-wing conservatives, ...

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After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Hitler abolished all unions, with exception of the German Labour Front, a Nazi trade union. Hitler also abolished all political parties. His National Socialist German Workers Party became the only legal party. Kaiser opposed National Socialism and he joined the resistance in 1934. In 1938 he was arrested and after his release he continued his work for the German resistance. He became a close associate of the former Mayor of Leipzig, Carl Goerdeler. Kaiser was involved in the attempt by Claus Sche ...

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Resistance to the German occupation began almost at once, although there is little terrain in Poland suitable for guerrilla operations. The main resistance force was the Home Army (in Polish: Armia Krajowa or AK), loyal to the Polish government in exile in London. It was formed mainly of the surviving remnants of the pre-War Polish army together with many volunteers. Other forces existed side-by-side, such as the communist People's Army (Armia Ludowa or AL), backed by the Soviet Union and controlled by the Polish Communist Part ...

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Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. Antibiotic resistance naturally develops via natural selection through random mutation and plasmid exchange between bacteria of the same species. Antibiotic resistance can also be introduced artificially into a microorganism through transformation protocols. If a bacterium carries several resistance genes, it is called multiresistant or, informally, a superbug. Antibiotic resistance - Causes. Ant ...

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The underground is sometimes a nickname for a resistance movement: "the underground" is also a common name for World War II resistance movements. By extension, the term was also applied to counter-cultural movement(s) many of which sprang up during the 1960s. In a similar sense, the Underground Railroad was a secretive United States anti-slavery movement which helped slaves to escape repression by providing them with hiding-places and assistance in their attempts to reach freedom in Canada. Other

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Definition and meaning of environmental resistance:

environmental resistance - the limits set by the environment which prevent organisms from reproducing indefinitely at an exponential rate

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

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The major determinant of vascular resistance is small arteriolar (known as resistance arterioles) tone. These vessels are from 450 µm down to 100 µm in diameter. (As a comparison, the diameter of a capillary is about 3 to 4 µm.) Another determinant of vascular resistance is the pre-capillary arterioles. These arterioles are less than 100 µm in diameter. They are sometimes known as autoregulatory vessels. ...

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Definition and meaning of Pan-Indian resistance movement:

Pan-Indian resistance movement

This movment called for the political and cultural unification of the Indian tribes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

(Source: Madrid Waddington High School )

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Other people involved with French Resistance include: José Aboulker Berty Albrecht, (1893-1943) Dimitri Amilakhvari, (1906-1942) Louis Aragon, (1897-1982) Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, (1900-1969) Serge Asher-Ravanel Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie Lucie Aubrac Jacqueline Auriol, (1917-2000) Josephine Baker Raoul Batany, (1926-1944) Simone de Beauvoir Gilbert Bécaud, (1927-2001) Samuel Beckett Robert Be ...

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Other people involved with French Resistance include: José Aboulker Berty Albrecht, (1893-1943) Dimitri Amilakhvari, (1906-1942) Louis Aragon, (1897-1982) Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, (1900-1969) Serge Asher-Ravanel Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie Lucie Aubrac Jacqueline Auriol, (1917-2000) Josephine Baker Raoul Batany, (1926-1944) Simone de Beauvoir Gilbert Bécaud, (1927-2001) Samuel Beckett Robert Be ...

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For a solid object moving through a fluid or gas, drag is the sum of all the aerodynamic or hydrodynamic forces in the direction of the external fluid flow. It therefore acts to oppose the motion of the object, and in a powered vehicle it is overcome by thrust. Types of drag are generally divided into three categories: parasitic drag, lift-induced drag and wave drag. Parasitic drag includes form drag, skin friction and interference drag. Lift-induced drag is only relevant when wings or a lifting body are present, and is therefo ...

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The basic tenet of calculating resistance is that flow is equal to driving pressure divided by resistance. The pulmonary vascular resistance can therefore be calculated in units of dyn·s·cm-5 as where the pressures are measured in units of millimetres of Mercury (mmHg) and the cardiac output is measured in units of Litres per minute (L/min). ...

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