Bier (other)
A bier is a flat frame used to carry a corpse to burial. Bier or Biers may also refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Bier (surname) Fictional characters and places * D'Anna Biers or Number Three (Battlestar Galactica), a Cylon in the re-imagined ''Battlestar Galactica'' television series * Riley Biers, a vampire in the Twilight novel series * Biers, a pub in Ankh-Morpork in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels Places * Bier, Maryland, an unincorporated community * Bier Point, Antarctica Other uses * Biological indicator evaluation resistometer * Bier is a German word for beer See also * Bier block, a technique for intravenous regional anesthesia named after August Bier * Bier spots, small, light macules occurring in cases of Marshall–White syndrome * Biar (other) * Bere (other) * Beer (other) Beer is an alcoholic drink. Beer may also refer to: Places * Beer, Devon, England, a coastal village * Beer, Somerset, England, a hamlet * Beer, Khyber Pakhtu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bier
A bier is a stand on which a corpse, coffin, or casket containing a corpse is placed to lie in state or to be carried to the grave.''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'' (American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1973), s.v., "bier" In Christian burial, the bier is often placed in the centre of the nave with candles surrounding it, and remains in place during the funeral. The bier is a flat frame, traditionally wooden but sometimes of other materials. In antiquity it was often a wooden board on which the dead were placed, covered with a shroud. In modern times, the corpse is rarely carried on the bier without being first placed in a coffin or casket, though the coffin or casket is sometimes kept open. A bier is often draped with cloth to lend dignity to the funeral service. The modern funeral industry uses a collapsible aluminium bier on wheels, known as a "church truck" to move the coffin to and from the church or funeral home for services. B ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bier (surname)
Bier is a German surname, meaning "beer". Notable people with the surname include: *August Bier (1861–1949), German surgeon and pioneer of anesthesiology *Martin Bier Martin (Max) Bier (1 April 1854 – August 1934) was a German chess master. 168. Geburtstag von Martin Bier († 80) Schachmeister des 19. Jahrhunderts vom Hamburger SK. War mehr als 60 Jahre Mitglied im Verein. He won at Wesselburen 1879, took 4t ... (1854–1934), German chess player *Steven Bier Jr. (born 1964), former stage name Madonna Wayne Gacy, former keyboard player for Marilyn Manson * Susanne Bier (born 1960), Danish film director * Vicki Bier, American systems engineer and decision analyst {{surname, Bier German-language surnames Surnames from nicknames ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Number Three (Battlestar Galactica)
D'Anna Biers (Number Three) is a fictional character from the re-imagined '' Battlestar Galactica'' television series, played by Lucy Lawless. Within the fictional universe of Battlestar Galactica, Number Three is a Humanoid Cylon Model. Character biography Introduction Three first appeared in the episode " Final Cut" as D'Anna Biers, a reporter for the Fleet News Service. In this episode, she is given full access to '' Galactica'' by Commander Adama to film a documentary about the military. During filming, D'Anna comes across the Cylon prisoner Sharon "Athena" Agathon and discovers she is pregnant when Dr. Cottle rushes to save her baby from miscarriage. D'Anna is ordered to remove the evidence by Adama on the grounds it could jeopardize fleet security. The episode concludes with a group of Cylons watching the documentary as well as the removed footage—it is in this scene that D'Anna's identity as a Cylon is first revealed. On Caprica In the episode " Downloaded", ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Twilight Characters
The following is a list of characters in the Twilight (novel series), ''Twilight'' novel series by Stephenie Meyer, comprising the books ''Twilight (Meyer novel), Twilight'', ''New Moon (novel), New Moon'', ''Eclipse (Meyer novel), Eclipse'' and ''Breaking Dawn'', as well as The Twilight Saga (film series), ''The Twilight Saga'' film series Film adaptation, adaptations. Major characters Bella Swan Isabella Marie "Bella" Swan (later Bella Cullen) is the fictional character, fictional protagonist of the Twilight (novel series), ''Twilight'' series, written by Stephenie Meyer. The ''Twilight'' series is primarily narrated from Bella's point of view. In ''Twilight'', Bella moves to her father's home in Forks, Washington, meets the mysterious Cullen family, and falls in love with Edward Cullen. However, she soon discovers that the family is a coven of vampires. Bella expresses a desire to become a vampire herself, against Edward's wishes. In the second novel, ''New Moon'', Ed ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ankh-Morpork
Ankh-Morpork is a fictional city-state which features prominently in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' fantasy novels. Overview Pratchett describes Ankh-Morpork as the biggest city in Discworld and its corrupt mercantile capital. In '' The Art of Discworld'', Pratchett explains that the city is similar to Tallinn and central Prague, but adds that it has elements of 18th-century London, 19th-century Seattle and modern-day New York City. He also stated that since the creation of '' The Streets of Ankh-Morpork'', he tried to ensure that the descriptions of character movements and locations in the books matched the Ankh-Morpork map; this allowed him, and fans of the series, to visualise the story more clearly. Geography The name "Ankh-Morpork" refers to both the city itself, a walled city about across, and the surrounding suburbs and farms of its fiefdom. The city itself lies on the River Ankh, the most polluted waterway on the Discworld, which divides it into the more affluent An ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bier, Maryland
Bier is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Allegany County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 173. It is located along U.S. Route 220, southwest of Cumberland and northeast of Keyser, West Virginia Keyser () is a city in and the county seat of Mineral County, West Virginia. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,853 at the 2020 census. History Keyser, the county seat of Mineral County, i .... Demographics References Census-designated places in Allegany County, Maryland Census-designated places in Maryland {{AlleganyCountyMD-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bier Point
Bier Point () is a projecting headland on the eastern side of Campbell Glacier, northeast of Mount Queensland, in Victoria Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1955–63, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Jeffrey W. Bier, a biologist in the McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Un ... winter party, 1966. References Headlands of Victoria Land Borchgrevink Coast {{BorchgrevinkCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Biological Indicator Evaluation Resistometer
A Biological Indicator Evaluation Resistometer (BIER) vessel is a piece of equipment used to determine the time taken to reduce survival of a given organism by 90% (also known as a log 1 reduction). The name derives from how the equipment is used. A BIER vessel evaluates the resistance of biological indicators to moist heat (steam) sterilization. For example, if a 90% reduction is determined to be 5 minutes for the microorganism being evaluated, then a D-value of 5 is assigned. D values are specific to starting bioload, substrate (the material the spores are on), and microbe species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of .... BIER vessels typically cost in excess of $100,000, and thus tend to be located where biological indicators are manufactured. References {{Reflist ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Beer
Beer is one of the oldest and the most widely consumed type of alcoholic drink in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cereal grains—most commonly from malted barley, though wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used. During the brewing process, fermentation of the starch sugars in the wort produces ethanol and carbonation in the resulting beer.Barth, Roger. ''The Chemistry of Beer: The Science in the Suds'', Wiley 2013: . Most modern beer is brewed with hops, which add bitterness and other flavours and act as a natural preservative and stabilizing agent. Other flavouring agents such as gruit, herbs, or fruits may be included or used instead of hops. In commercial brewing, the natural carbonation effect is often removed during processing and replaced with forced carbonation. Some of humanity's earliest known writings refer to the productio ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Intravenous Regional Anesthesia
Intravenous regional anesthesia (IVRA) or Bier's block anesthesia is an anesthetic technique on the body's extremities where a local anesthetic is injected intravenously and isolated from circulation in a target area. The technique usually involves exsanguination of the target region, which forces blood out of the extremity, followed by the application of pneumatic tourniquets to safely stop blood flow. The anesthetic agent is intravenously introduced into the limb and allowed to diffuse into the surrounding tissue while tourniquets retain the agent within the desired area. History The use of tourniquets and injected anesthesia to induce localized anesthesia was first introduced by August Bier in 1908. He used an Esmarch bandage to exsanguinate the arm and injected procaine between two tourniquets to rapidly induce anesthetic and analgesic effects in the site. Though it proved effective, IVRA remained relatively unpopular until C. McK. Holmes reintroduced it in 1963. Today, t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bier Spots
Bier spots are small, light macules usually found on the arms and legs of young adults, in which the intervening skin may seem erythematous but blanches with pressure so that these light macules disappear.Freedberg, et al. (2003). ''Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine''. (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill. . This is a benign physiologic vascular anomaly of no significance clinically. Diagnosis The spots appear when the blood is congested with a bandage on the upper arm, e.g. with a blood pressure cuff. The spots also appear when the arms are slightly raised from the trunk (angle approx. 45°) and disappear again when the arms are stretched upwards. Treatment It is a physiological phenomenon that requires no treatment. See also * Marshall–White syndrome * List of cutaneous conditions Many skin conditions affect the human integumentary system—the organ system covering the entire surface of the body and composed of skin, hair, nails, and related muscle and glands. T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Biar (other)
Biar is a town in southern Spain. Biar or BIAR may also refer to: * Biar, Iran, a village in western Iran * Biar-e Kord, a village in northeastern Iran * Akureyri Airport (ICAO code: BIAR), an airport in Iceland See also * El Biar, a suburb of Algiers, Algeria * Biars-sur-Cère, a commune in southwestern France * Bier (other) * Bere (other) * Beer (other) Beer is an alcoholic drink. Beer may also refer to: Places * Beer, Devon, England, a coastal village * Beer, Somerset, England, a hamlet * Beer, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, a union council * Beer, Togdheer, Somaliland, a village * Beer (lunar ... * Bia (other) {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |