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Also called a job description, it is a detailed outline of a person’s responsibilities, authorities, and relationships with other members of the organizational team.  

A hypothesis of human motivation that holds that behavior is caused by felt needs, that the strength of the motivation is related to the perceived value of the results of the behavior, and if the person feels that the desired results are probable. The three additional characteristics: 1. the total value of the reward is…

The large vein that collects the blood from the spleen and intestinal tract and carries it to the liver. A vein which takes blood from the stomach, pancreas, gall bladder, intestines and spleen to the liver. The vein that carries the absorbed nutrients from the intestinal tract to the liver. Short vein that receives branches…

In an infectious disease, the means by which the infectious organism enters the body, nose, mouth, skin, etc. The pathway by which infectious organisms gain access to the body (e.g., respiratory tract, breaks in skin).  

The mechanism by which an employee can take accumulated health benefits with him or her from one job to another. An attribute of a health care payment system in which the beneficiary can move from one employer to another without loss of benefits or having to go through a waiting period. Without portable coverage, individuals…

Sexually arousing music, art, literature, films, or video, hard-core pornography; soft-core pornography. Sexually explicit images, writings, or other forms of content created with the intention of inducing sexual arousal are commonly referred to as pornography.  

Early Greek women who were hired to provide sexual gratification for men.  

The predictions of population growth or decline.  

The branch of genetics that deals with frequencies of alleles in groups of individuals.  

In epidemiology, a measure of the benefit derived by modifying a risk factor.