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unusual facts about stress



Abiotic stress

Abiotic stress is the most harmful factor concerning the growth and productivity of crops worldwide.

Adventures of Captain Vrungel

Pobeda (stress on the second syllable) is Russian for Victory, Beda(stress on second syllable) is Russian for Trouble.

Alan H. Goodman

He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, was a postdoctoral fellow in international nutrition at the University of Connecticut, and a research fellow in stress physiology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

Ange Leccia

Like his earlier work, such as the shorts Île de beauté (Island of Beauty) (1996) and Gold (2000), both co-produced with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, in Azé Ange Leccia continued to stress the light and sound effects.

Anti-nuclear power movement in Japan

Of which NISA did approve the so-called stress-tests, after the reactors were taken out of service for a regular check-up.

Battle fatigue

Combat stress reaction, a military term for an acute reaction to the stress of battle commonly involving fatigue, slowed reaction time, indecision, and other symptoms

Billy Minter

He remained on the books as a trainer and following Peter McWilliams' resignation as manager, Minter took over the position on 28 February 1927 and remained as manager for three years before being succeeded by Percy Smith after failing health, brought on by the stress of an unsuccessful reign, including relegation in his first season, caused him to resign the post.

Brasil Animado

A couple of dogs called Stress and Relax leave in search for the Cariniana legalis, the oldest tree of Brazil.

Claret Ash

In Australia and the United States a decline or dieback in some older trees has been observed which has been attributed to a combination of environmental stress and the presence of the fungus Botryosphaeria.

Complex modulus

Dynamic modulus (materials engineering), the ratio of stress to strain under vibratory conditions.

Coronation of the Virgin

A crowned Mary is usually seen in Jesse Trees, which stress her earthly royal descent from the House of David, something accorded considerable importance in the Middle Ages.

Deo Vindice

The Confederate Senator Thomas Semmes, in proposing this motto, took pains to stress that the CSA had "deviated in the most emphatic manner from the spirit that presided over the construction of the Constitution of the United States, which is silent on the subject of the Deity", and he clearly expected this invocation to bring his side victory.

Dilatant

Rheopecty is a similar property in which viscosity increases with cumulative stress or agitation over time.

Emotional conflict

With respect to the post-industrial age, 'LaBier writes of "modern madness", the hidden link between work and emotional conflict...feelings of self-betrayal, stress and burnout'.

Engineering, Science, and Management War Training

During 1940, Cornell University started courses in aircraft structures and stress analysis at Buffalo, New York, for Bell Aircraft and Curtis Wright.

Escents Aromatherapy

Escents' Stress Relief line of products were featured on The Dr. Oz Show in March, 2012.

Fractional-order system

So G. W. Scott Blair introduced a new relationship between stress and strain given by

Grave goods

in a 2001 study on an Iron Age cemetery in Pontecagnano Faiano, Italy, a correlation was found between the quality of grave goods and Forensic indicators on the skeletons, showing that skeletons in wealthy tombs tended to show substantially less evidence of biological stress during adulthood, with fewer broken bones or signs of hard labor.

Great Seal of the Confederate States of America

The Confederate Senator Thomas Semmes, in proposing this motto, took pains to stress that the CSA had "deviated in the most emphatic manner from the spirit that presided over the construction of the Constitution of the United States, which is silent on the subject of the Deity".

Hass

HAST (reliability) - Highly accelerated stress test -- a type of an environmental stress test used to compress humidity testing in reliability engineering

Hogging

Hogging and sagging, the stress a ship is put under when it passes over the crest of a wave

HTPA

Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, the relationship the brain and stress hormones as they interact in a feedback loop

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

ISTSS was originally named the Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (STSS) when it was established at a meeting organized by Charles Figley that was held in Washington, DC in March 1985.

Kathleen Hall

Hall studied the effects of stress under medical pioneers such as Herbert Benson at the Harvard Mind/Body Institute, Dean Ornish of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Stress Reduction Center.

Kevin Smith: Too Fat for 40

In the film, Kevin's attempt to answer a multitude of questions quickly is derailed entirely when the first question posed is about working with Bruce Willis, which begins a near-two-hour story in which he discusses, among other things, the adult use of marijuana, the highs and lows of making his 2008 film Zack and Miri Make a Porno and the stress of working with Willis during Cop Out.

Lucinda Bassett

Bassett founded the Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety headquartered in Oak Harbor, Ohio in 1984.

MTORC2

mTORC2 has been shown to function as an important regulator of the cytoskeleton through its stimulation of F-actin stress fibers, paxillin, RhoA, Rac1, Cdc42, and protein kinase C α (PKCα).

It is composed of mTOR, rapamycin-insensitive companion of mTOR (RICTOR), GβL, and mammalian stress-activated protein kinase interacting protein 1 (mSIN1).

Mutaz Essa Barshim

The problem was found to be a stress fracture in the fifth (L5) Lumbar vertebrae.

Neotys

Neotys develops software solutions to improve the quality and performance of information systems; its flagship solution, NeoLoad, tests the performance of web applications using customizable scenarios for load and stress.

Neurofeedback

The books included New Mind New Body, with a foreword from Hugh Downs, and Stress and the Art of Biofeedback.

Neuticles

Miller and Neuticles were featured on an episode of the Penn & Teller show Bullshit! which featured the extremes people will go to in order to pamper and care for their pets, including the implantation of Neuticles, which was shown as an example of some pet owners' desires to reduce what they perceived as stress and/or depression after being neutered.

Nigel Adkins

In October 2012, Adkins disclosed that he recites the Dale Wimbrow poem, The Guy in The Glass to control stress.

Occupational stress

St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company conducted several studies on the effects of stress prevention programs in hospital settings.

Oculesics

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of therapy created by Dr. Francine Shapiro to help treat conditions such as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Phonology

In addition to the minimal units that can serve the purpose of differentiating meaning (the phonemes), phonology studies how sounds alternate, i.e. replace one another in different forms of the same morpheme (allomorphs), as well as, for example, syllable structure, stress, feature geometry, accent, and intonation.

Piezoelectric accelerometer

In 1880, Pierre and Jacques Curie published an experimental demonstration connecting mechanical stress and surface charge on a crystal.

Precision viticulture

Distributed Sensor Networks use strategic deployment of sensors throughout a vineyard to monitor key factors such as water stress and temperature.

Rigaku

1976 Rigaku developed the first parallel-beam type X-ray diffractometer for stress analysis, as well as the first X-ray fluorescence spectrometers capable of carbon analysis (1976) and boron analysis (1981).

Santa Cesarea Terme

The various hot mud and mineral treatments combat arthritic and rheumatoid problems, as well as respiratory, dermatological, trauma and stress ailments.

Scansion

It remained for the Russian linguistic-statistical school to systematize it; in their 1968 study of Russian verse, A.N. Kolmogorov and A.V. Proxorov used a system which made both stress and ictus explicit simultaneously.

Search activity concept

Search Activity Concept (SAC) is a psychophysiological concept that integrates subject’s behavior, resistance to stress and deteriorating factors, pathogenetic mechanisms of different mental and psychosomatic disorders, REM sleep functions, brain monoamines activity and brain laterality.

Shelford Girls' Grammar

Robyn Christine Robinson AM - President and South Pacific Liaison Officer of the Critical Incident Stress Management Foundation Australia; Former Clinical Director of the Victorian Ambulance Crisis Counselling Unit; Former Senior Lecturer/Deputy Director of the Soc.

Silfade series

The game was highly acclaimed at Enterbrain-held Contest Park, in which a reviewer described its game design as "stress-free," mainly due to the prevention of lengthy cutscenes.

Slow Cow

Other ingredients include extracts of chamomile, a daisy-like plant with "a calming agent to fend off stress ... and ease digestion", passiflora, a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants with "anti-depressant and relaxing" properties, valerian, a herb that "relieves symptoms of nervousness", Tilia cordata, a linden tree known for "facilitating sleep", and hops, a "nerve calming" flowering plant.

Split-Hopkinson pressure bar

The Split-Hopkinson pressure bar, named after Bertram Hopkinson, sometimes also called a Kolsky bar, is an apparatus for testing the dynamic stress-strain response of materials.

Surfer Girl

"In My Room" was perhaps Brian Wilson's first personal song, a reflection on having a place to go to feel a sense of security and safety from the stress of one's life.

When Trumpets Fade

Manning then tries to back out of responsibility by asking to be filed on a Section 8 (mentally unfit due to combat stress), but is refused.

White-Pool House

Lucy had a perceived health need to live in a dry climate like that of West Texas, and Charles’ grain business in Indiana had failed in the economic stress of the decades following the American Civil War.

Yamigo

::"We would like to stress the fact that we see a benefit in using some chat clients over others. For example, most of the existing Nokia and Ericsson phones use a compressed version of the data exchange protocol, known as WBXML, while Motorola chat clients use plain XML. Motorola generate data transfers ten times higher than Nokia and Sony-Ericsson phones."


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