Category: P

Strong attachment and physical desire.  

A dedicated telephone line or circuit that serves parties or locations. Although a party line is usually used for emergency or priority traffic, all users have equal priority and may participate in all communications on the circuit.  

Particulate matter.  

That portion of tobacco smoke composed of tiny suspended particles, gaseous phase.  

Minute, often harmful substances found in tobacco smoke and in polluted air. Particles of less than a specified size, usually of carbon, which are used as a measure of air pollution and can affect asthma.  

The strategy of achieving objectives through the involvement of the workers or the students in decision making.  

The collection of data while being involved in the phenomenon being studied. A method of field research in which the investigator observes and records information about the characteristics of a setting through experience as a participant in that setting.  

The fact that a response is much harder to extinguish when it was acquired during partial rather than continuous reinforcement.  

Reinforcement that occurs at a rate less often than for every correct response or on every trial.  

The surgical removal of malignant tumors and/or the breast and 2-3 cm of surround tissue, muscle, skin, and fascia. Leaving some of the breast and all auxiliary and inner lymph nodes. Segmental mastectomy involves the excision of solely the cancerous breast tissue along with a portion of the adjacent healthy tissue. An infusion of a…