Category: E

Any process by which a water-soluble substance is made more soluble. An emulsifier contains both water-and fat-soluble groups. It thus acts as a bridge between two substances that would not otherwise mix: emulsion. Process of breaking down large globules of fats into smaller particles. The process of making an emulsion, allowing fat and water to…

Expectoration of blood.  

A Gestalt therapy procedure for helping the client become more aware of denied feelings. The client talks to important people or to feelings as though they were present and seated in a nearby vacant chair.  

A commission responsible for two major programs: (a) employment service, which provides unemployed persons with employment information; (b) administration of unemployment insurance that is given to qualified unemployed persons until they find work.  

Includes activities of civilian, noninstitutionalized persons such as (a) paid work during any part of a survey week; work at their own business, professional, or farm; or unpaid work for 15 h or more in a family-owned enterprise; or (b) temporary absence due to illness, bad weather, vacation, labor management dispute, or personal reasons, whether…

Programs, facilities, activities, and opportunities supplied by or through employers that are useful or beneficial to employees.  

A system that provides information regarding the numbers, characteristics, skills, effectiveness, and promotion potential of existing employees.  

In research, a philosophical orientation that contends that all reality can be observed and is quantifiable. Experience, not theory, as the basis of medical science.  

In research, the answer scored is determined by the answers given by some criterion group and discriminate that group from others.  

That which is derived from observation or experimentation. Describing a system of treatment based on experience or observation, rather than of logic or reason. A method of treatment founded simply on experience rather than on scientific evidence from, for example, clinical trials. Because a given remedy has been successful in the treatment of a certain…