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OSIS or ''variant'' may refer to: ;OSIS * Open Source Information System * Open Scripture Information Standard * ''Organisasi Siswa Intra Sekolah'', Indonesian for Intra-school students organization ;-osis The suffix ''wikt:-osis, -osis'' is used for forming a number of medical terms. The suffix itself signifies only a general functional disorder, but the constructed words are more specific. It is often used to denote a biological process (i.e. Apoptosis, Phagocytosis, Necrosis...) ;Osis Osis (feminine: Ose), is a Latvian language surname meaning "Fraxinus excelsior, ash" (tree; ''Fraxinus excelsior'') *Guntis Osis (born 1962), Soviet Latvian bobsledder *Karlis Osis (1917–1997), paranormal researcher See also * OSI (other) for OSIs, the plural of OSI {{disambig, surname Latvian-language masculine surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guntis Osis
Guntis Osis (born 30 October 1962 in Talsi) is a Latvian Soviet bobsledder who competed in the late 1980s. He won the bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin .... References External links * * 1962 births Living people People from Talsi Latvian male bobsledders Soviet male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders of the Soviet Union Olympic bobsledders of Latvia Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Bobsledders at the 1988 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics {{USSR-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
-osis
OSIS or ''variant'' may refer to: ;OSIS * Open Source Information System * Open Scripture Information Standard * ''Organisasi Siswa Intra Sekolah'', Indonesian for Intra-school students organization ;-osis The suffix ''wikt:-osis, -osis'' is used for forming a number of medical terms. The suffix itself signifies only a general functional disorder, but the constructed words are more specific. It is often used to denote a biological process (i.e. Apoptosis, Phagocytosis, Necrosis...) ;Osis Osis (feminine: Ose), is a Latvian language surname meaning "Fraxinus excelsior, ash" (tree; ''Fraxinus excelsior'') *Guntis Osis (born 1962), Soviet Latvian bobsledder *Karlis Osis (1917–1997), paranormal researcher See also * OSI (other) for OSIs, the plural of OSI {{disambig, surname Latvian-language masculine surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Source Information System
The Open Source Information System (OSIS) is the former name of an American unclassified network serving the U.S. intelligence community with open source intelligence. Since mid-2006, the content of OSIS is now known as Intelink-U while the network portion is known as DNI-U. Contents OSIS contents include: *CIRC (Central Information Reference and Control) *A database of over 10 million titles on scientific and technical topics, including patents, standards, military equipment and systems. *''Conference Database'' of upcoming symposia, congresses, and conventions in the areas of science, technology, engineering, politics, and economics. *DTED (Digital Terrain Elevation Data) map collection NGA), formerly the National Imagery and Mapping Association (NIMA)">National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency">NGA), formerly the National Imagery and Mapping Association (NIMA)provides global coverage. * OSC (Open Source Center, formerly FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service) products inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Scripture Information Standard
Open Scripture Information Standard (OSIS) is an XML application (or schema), that defines tags for marking up Bibles, theological commentaries, and other related literature. Description The schema is very similar to that of the Text Encoding Initiative, though on the one hand much simpler (by omission of many unneeded constructs), and on the other hand adding much more detailed metadata, and a formal canonical reference system to identify books, chapters, verses, and particular locations within verses. The metadata includes a "work declaration" for the work itself, and for each work it references. A work declaration provides basic catalog information based on the Dublin Core standard, and assigns a local short name for the work (similar to XML namespace declarations). Significant Features OSIS gives particular attention to encoding overlapping markup, because Bibles exhibit such markup frequently, for example verses crossing paragraph boundaries and vice versa. The OSIS sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apoptosis
Apoptosis (from grc, ἀπόπτωσις, apóptōsis, 'falling off') is a form of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms. Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes (morphology) and death. These changes include blebbing, cell shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, chromatin condensation, DNA fragmentation, and mRNA decay. The average adult human loses between 50 and 70 billion cells each day due to apoptosis. For an average human child between eight and fourteen years old, approximately twenty to thirty billion cells die per day. In contrast to necrosis, which is a form of traumatic cell death that results from acute cellular injury, apoptosis is a highly regulated and controlled process that confers advantages during an organism's life cycle. For example, the separation of fingers and toes in a developing human embryo occurs because cells between the digits undergo apoptosis. Unlike necrosis, apoptosis produces cell fragments called apoptotic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phagocytosis
Phagocytosis () is the process by which a cell uses its plasma membrane to engulf a large particle (≥ 0.5 μm), giving rise to an internal compartment called the phagosome. It is one type of endocytosis. A cell that performs phagocytosis is called a phagocyte. In a multicellular organism's immune system, phagocytosis is a major mechanism used to remove pathogens and cell debris. The ingested material is then digested in the phagosome. Bacteria, dead tissue cells, and small mineral particles are all examples of objects that may be phagocytized. Some protozoa use phagocytosis as means to obtain nutrients. History Phagocytosis was first noted by Canadian physician William Osler (1876), and later studied and named by Élie Metchnikoff (1880, 1883). In immune system Phagocytosis is one main mechanisms of the innate immune defense. It is one of the first processes responding to infection, and is also one of the initiating branches of an adaptive immune response. Although mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necrosis
Necrosis () is a form of cell injury which results in the premature death of cells in living tissue by autolysis. Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, or trauma which result in the unregulated digestion of cell components. In contrast, apoptosis is a naturally occurring programmed and targeted cause of cellular death. While apoptosis often provides beneficial effects to the organism, necrosis is almost always detrimental and can be fatal. Cellular death due to necrosis does not follow the apoptotic signal transduction pathway, but rather various receptors are activated and result in the loss of cell membrane integrity and an uncontrolled release of products of cell death into the extracellular space. This initiates in the surrounding tissue an inflammatory response, which attracts leukocytes and nearby phagocytes which eliminate the dead cells by phagocytosis. However, microbial damaging substances released by leukocytes would crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvian Language
Latvian ( ), also known as Lettish, is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the Baltic region. It is the language of Latvians and the official language of Latvia as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 1.3 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and 100,000 abroad. Altogether, 2 million, or 80% of the population of Latvia, speak Latvian. Of those, around 1.16 million or 62% of Latvia's population use it as their primary language at home, however excluding the Latgale Region it is spoken as a native language in villages and towns by over 90% of the population. As a Baltic language, Latvian is most closely related to neighboring Lithuanian (as well as Old Prussian, an extinct Baltic language); however Latvian has followed a more rapid development. In addition, there is some disagreement whether Latgalian and Kursenieki, which are mutually intelligible with Latvian, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraxinus Excelsior
''Fraxinus excelsior'', known as the ash, or European ash or common ash to distinguish it from other types of ash, is a flowering plant species in the olive family Oleaceae. It is native throughout mainland Europe east to the Caucasus and Alborz mountains, and Britain and Ireland, the latter determining its western boundary. The northernmost location is in the Trondheimsfjord region of Norway.Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and Europe''. Collins .Den virtuella floran''Fraxinus excelsior'' distribution/ref> The species is widely cultivated and reportedly naturalised in New Zealand and in scattered locales in the United States and Canada. Description It is a large deciduous tree growing to (exceptionally to ) tall with a trunk up to (exceptionally to ) diameter, with a tall, narrow crown. The bark is smooth and pale grey on young trees, becoming thick and vertically fissured on old trees. The shoots are stout, greenish-grey, with jet-black buds (which distinguish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlis Osis
Karlis Osis (26 December 1917 – 26 December 1997) was a Latvian-born parapsychologist who specialised in exploring deathbed phenomena and life after death. Biography Karlis' first research, conducted in the 1940s, was inspired by the work of English physicist and parapsychologist William F. Barrett, specifically his book, ''Death Bed Visions''. In an attempt to build on Barrett's research, he and Erlendur Haraldsson conducted a four-year study whereby they sent out hundreds of questionnaires to doctors and nurses in both the US and northern India, asking them about their observations regarding dying patients. Their research highlighted differences between cultural experiences near death. They found that a person's religion greatly influenced what was seen and that this was most apparent when observing the differences between Indian and American experience where Indian patients were far more likely to see a personification of death than Americans. He repeated this exper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OSI (other)
OSI may refer to: Places * Osijek Airport (IATA code: OSI), an airport in Croatia * Ősi, a village in Veszprém county, Hungary * Oši, an archaeological site in Semigallia, Latvia * Osi, a village in Ido-Osi, Ekiti State, Nigeria * Osi, Ekiti LGA.Kwara State, Nigeria Organizations * Oblates of St. Joseph, a Roman Catholic Religious order that uses the postnominal initials O.S.I. * Open Source Initiative, an organization dedicated to promoting open source software * Open Society Institute, a private charitable foundation established by George Soros to promote open societies around the world * Open Society Institute-Baltimore, a locally based foundation that is part of Open Society Foundations * Open Space Institute, an organization that seeks to preserve scenic, natural and historic landscapes * Ordnance Survey Ireland (''Suirbhéireacht Ordanáis Éireann'') * Otto-Suhr-Institut, the political-science institute of the Free University of Berlin Companies * OSI Group, an America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
