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Cancer - (um-BIH-lih-kul kord blud tranz-plan-TAY-shun) The injection of umbilical cord blood to restore an individual's own blood production system suppressed by anticancer drugs, radiation therapy, or both. It is being studied in the treatment of cancer and severe blood disorders such as aplastic anemia. Cord blood contains high concentrations of stem cells (cells from which all blood cells develop).
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Stem Cell - Hematopoietic stem cells are present in the blood of the umbilical cord during and shortly after delivery. These stem cells are in the blood at the time of delivery, because they move from the liver, where blood-formation takes place during fetal life, to the bone marrow, where blood is made after birth. Umbilical cord stem cells are similar to stem cells that reside in bone marrow, and can be used for the treatment of leukemia, and other diseases of the blood. Efforts are now being undertaken to collect these cells and store them in freezers for later use. However, one problem is that there may not be enough umbilical cord stem cells in any one sample to transplant into an adult.
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Defense - Unit Manning Document.
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Defense - Uniform Material Movement and Issue Priority System (ILS term).
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Food Biotechnology - Abbreviation for the (ribo)nucleotide uridine 5'-monophosphate. See: uridylic acid.
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E-Discovery - Universal messaging system.
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Defense - United Nations.
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E-Discovery - Space on a hard drive that potentially contains intact files, remnants of files, subdirectories or temporary files which were created and then deleted by a computer application, the operating system or the operator.
ZoomCopy.com - Cite This Source - This Definition - space on a hard drive that potentially contains intact files, remnants of files, subdirectories or temporary files which were created and then deleted by either a computer application, the operating system or the operator.
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E-Discovery - The area of computer media, such as a hard drive, that does not contain normally accessible data. Unallocated space is usually the result of a file being deleted. When a file is deleted, it is not actually erased, but is simply no longer accessible through normal means. The space that it occupied becomes unallocated space, i.e., space on the drive that can be reused to store new information. Until portions of the unallocated space are used for new data storage, in most instances, the old data remains and c
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US Legislature - A Senator may request unanimous consent on the floor to set aside a specified rule of procedure so as to expedite proceedings. If no Senator objects, the Senate permits the action, but if any one Senator objects, the request is rejected. Unanimous consent requests with only immediate effects are routinely granted, but ones affecting the floor schedule, the conditions of considering a bill or other business, or the rights of other Senators, are normally not offered, or a floor leader will object to it, until all Senators concerned have had an opportunity to inform the leaders that they find it acceptable.
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US Legislature - A unanimous consent request setting terms for the consideration of a specified bill or other measure. These agreements are usually proposed by the Majority Leader or floor manager of the measure, and reflect negotiations among Senators interested in the measure. Many are "time agreements," which limit the time available for debate and specify who will control that time. Many also permit only a list of specified amendments, or require amendments to be to the measure. Many also contain other provisions, such as empowering the Majority Leader to call up the measure at will or specifying when consideration will begin or end.
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Java - An operator taking a single operand. Java's unary operators are
-, +, !, !, ++ and --.
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Perl - An operator with only one "operand", like
! or chdir. Unary operators are usually prefix operators; that is, they precede their operand. The ++ and -- operators can be either prefix or postfix. (Their position does change their meanings.)
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