Category: D
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Debate
In politics, discussion of a matter according to parliamentary rules, debates. Learner-centered method typically used to motivate both intellectual and emotional exchange among learners. Through the use of this method, students learn to listen, communicate, and analyze what is being said. It encourages objective thinking and listening.
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Death registration states
The states that conform to a uniform death registration system for the purpose of contributing to the national vital statistics system.
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Death rate
The number of persons who have died in a given period of time and within a specified population size. The number of deaths per year per thousand of population. The number of deaths within a group of people in 1 year divided by the average or midyear population of that group. If total population is…
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Death
A permanent cessation of all vital functions; the end of life (often called mortality). A simple concept whose actual occurrence medicine has made very difficult to define and measure. A con-census appears to be forming that death occurs when all measurable or identifiable brain functioning (electrical or any other kind) is absent for over 24…
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Deafness
The inability to perceive sounds. There are two major forms: (a) conductive deafness and (b) perceptive deafness. The fact of being unable to hear in circumstances where most people would. partial or complete loss of hearing in one or both ears, caused by the absence or incomplete development of the ear, the auditory nerve, or…
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Deaf
A category for persons who have hearing losses greater than 75-80 dB, who have vision as their primary sensory input, and who cannot understand speech through the ear. Not able to hear in circumstances where most people would. In general, a term referring to people with hearing so severely impaired that it cannot be used…
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Drug enforcement administration (Dea)
An acronym for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The principal federal agency for enforcement of drug laws pertaining to drug trafficking, investigation, drug intelligence, and regulatory control, administered within the United States Department of Justice. The federal agency which has to do with licensing the…
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Denver developmental screening test
Designed to detect problems related to the development of children. A widely used screening test to detect problems in the development of children from birth to 6 years of age.
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Dependency, debility, dread syndrome
Dependency, debility, and dread. The three features of very stressful situations as typified in the procedures used in thought control or brain washing.
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D-cognition
According to Maslow, a type of thinking or knowing that is goal oriented, directed toward making sense of the world.