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  2. Insulin (medication) - Wikipedia

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    Advantages to the person are better control over background or basal insulin dosage, bolus doses calculated to fractions of a unit, and calculators in the pump that may help with determining bolus infusion dosages. The limitations are cost, the potential for hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic episodes, catheter problems, and no "closed loop" means ...

  3. The Fed just cut interest rates. Time to tap your home equity?

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    Borrowers should carefully consider the costs and risks of tapping into their home equity through a HELOC or home equity loan, as rates remain relatively high and your home is collateral for the debt.

  4. PRISM - Wikipedia

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    PRISM is a code name for a program under which the ... found that the disclosure of PRISM could cost the U.S. economy between $21.5 and $35 billion in lost ...

  5. Washington Corrections Center for Women - Wikipedia

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    Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW, originally the Purdy Treatment Center for Women) is a Washington State Department of Corrections women's prison located in Gig Harbor, Washington. [1] With an operating capacity of 740, it is the largest women's prison in the state [ 2 ] and is surrounded by Washington State Route 16 , and ...

  6. Casio graphic calculators - Wikipedia

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    Casio graphic calculators use a BASIC-like programming language but variable names are restricted to single letters A-Z which are shared by all programs including subroutines which are stored as separate programs. This means there are no local variables, they are all global. These variables are also shared by other functions of the calculator.

  7. Prism (optics) - Wikipedia

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    Prism spectacles with a single prism perform a relative displacement of the two eyes, thereby correcting eso-, exo, hyper- or hypotropia. In contrast, spectacles with prisms of equal power for both eyes, called yoked prisms (also: conjugate prisms , ambient lenses or performance glasses ) shift the visual field of both eyes to the same extent.

  8. Mechanical calculator - Wikipedia

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    For forty years the arithmometer was the only type of mechanical calculator available for sale until the industrial production of the more successful Odhner Arithmometer in 1890. [ 8 ] The comptometer , introduced in 1887, was the first machine to use a keyboard that consisted of columns of nine keys (from 1 to 9) for each digit.

  9. Cost - Wikipedia

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    For example, the manufacturing cost of a car (i.e., the costs of buying inputs, land tax rates for the car plant, overhead costs of running the plant and labor costs) reflects the private cost for the manufacturer (in some ways, normal profit can also be seen as a cost of production; see, e.g., Ison and Wall, 2007, p. 181).