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Deterioration may refer to: * Worsening of health * Physical wear See also * Decadence (other) * Degeneracy (other) * ''Deteriorata'', a parody of ''Desiderata'' * Decay (other), Decay * Decline (other), Decline {{Authority control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Health
Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time. In general, it refers to physical and emotional well-being, especially that associated with normal functioning of the human body, absent of disease, pain (including mental pain), or injury. Health can be promoted by encouraging healthful activities, such as regular physical exercise and adequate sleep, and by reducing or avoiding unhealthful activities or situations, such as smoking or excessive stress. Some factors affecting health are due to individual choices, such as whether to engage in a high-risk behavior, while others are due to structural causes, such as whether the society is arranged in a way that makes it easier or harder for people to get necessary healthcare services. Still, other factors are beyond both individual and group choices, such as genetic disorders. History The meaning of health has evolved over time. In keeping with the biomedical perspective, earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wear
Wear is the damaging, gradual removal or deformation of material at solid surfaces. Causes of wear can be mechanical (e.g., erosion) or chemical (e.g., corrosion). The study of wear and related processes is referred to as tribology. Wear in machine elements, together with other processes such as fatigue and creep, causes functional surfaces to degrade, eventually leading to material failure or loss of functionality. Thus, wear has large economic relevance as first outlined in the Jost Report. Abrasive wear alone has been estimated to cost 1–4% of the gross national product of industrialized nations. Wear of metals occurs by plastic displacement of surface and near-surface material and by detachment of particles that form wear debris. The particle size may vary from millimeters to nanometers. This process may occur by contact with other metals, nonmetallic solids, flowing liquids, solid particles or liquid droplets entrained in flowing gasses. The wear rate is affected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decadence (other)
Decadence refers to a personal trait, or to the state of a society (or segment of it). Decadence or Decadent may also refer to: * Decadence (band), a Swedish metal band * ''Decadence'' (TV series), a television documentary * ''Decadence'' (album), a 2004 album by Head Automatica *"Decadence", a song by Pet Shop Boys from the album ''Alternative'' *''Decadence'', a play by Steven Berkoff * ''Decadence'' (film), a 1994 film * ''Decadence'' (novel), a 1925 novel by Maxim Gorky *Decadent movement, an art movement of the late 19th century * ''Decadent'' (band), a South Korean indie rock band * ''Decadent'' (U.D.O. album), 2015 *''Decadent'', 1999 album by Threshold * ''Decadent'' (Decadent album), 2018 *"Decadence" a song by Disturbed from the album ''Ten Thousand Fists'' *"Decadance", a song by Living Colour from the album ''The Chair in the Doorway ''The Chair in the Doorway'' is the fifth studio album by American rock band Living Colour, released on September 15, 2009. It was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Degeneracy (other)
Degeneracy, degenerate, or degeneration may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Degenerate'' (album), a 2010 album by the British band Trigger the Bloodshed * Degenerate art, a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art ** Decadent movement, often associated with degeneracy * Dégénération, a single by Mylène Farmer * ''Degeneration'' (Nordau), an 1892 book by Max Nordau * '' Resident Evil: Degeneration'', a 2008 film * "Degenerate", a song by Blink-182 from the album ''Dude Ranch'' * "Degenerates", a song by A Day to Remember from the album '' You're Welcome'' * "DEGENERATE", a 2024 song by Starset Science, mathematics, and medicine Mathematics * Degeneracy (mathematics), a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class * Degeneracy (graph theory), a measure of the sparseness of a graph * Degeneration (algebraic geometry), the act of taking a limit of a family of vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deteriorata
"Deteriorata" is a comedy record released as a single in 1972. It is a parody of Les Crane's 1971 spoken-word recording of "Desiderata", the early 20th-century poem by Max Ehrmann. ("Desiderata" is Latin for "desired things"; "deteriorata" is a portmanteau of the verb "deteriorate" and "desiderata".) The parody was written by Tony Hendra for ''National Lampoon'' magazine, and was recorded for the album '' Radio Dinner''. Narrator Norman Rose read the parody poem and Melissa Manchester was the background vocalist, both closely tracking the format of Crane's original. Christopher Guest wrote the music. "Deteriorata" appeared on the lower reaches of the ''Billboard'' magazine charts for a few weeks in late 1972, peaking as high as No. 91 on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts. The parody gained some significance and popularity as a frequent presentation on the Dr. Demento radio show. Les Crane himself later admitted that he preferred the parody version over his Grammy-winning reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desiderata
"Desiderata"(Latin: 'things desired') is a 1927 prose poem by the American writer Max Ehrmann. The text was widely distributed in poster form in the 1960s and 1970s. History Max Ehrmann of Terre Haute, Indiana, started writing the work in 1921, but he did not assign it a title. He registered for his U.S. copyright in 1927 using the poem's first phrase as its title. The April 5, 1933, issue of ''Michigan Tradesman'' magazine published the full, original text on its cover, crediting Ehrmann as its author. In 1933, he distributed the poem in the form of a Christmas card, now officially titled "Desiderata." Psychiatrist Merrill Moore distributed more than 1,000 unattributed copies to his patients and soldiers during World War II. After Ehrmann died in 1945, his widow published the work in 1948 in ''The Poems of Max Ehrmann''. The 1948 version was in the form of one long prose paragraph, so earlier and later versions were presumably also in that form.Contrary to Bell v. Combined Regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decay (other)
Decay may refer to: Science and technology * Bit decay, in computing * Decay time (fall time), in electronics * Distance decay, in geography * Software decay, in computing Biology * Decomposition of organic matter * Mitochondrial decay, in genetics * Tooth decay (dental caries), in dentistry Physics * Optical decay, in quantum physics * Orbital decay, the process of prolonged reduction in the height of a satellite's orbit * Particle decay * Radioactive decay * False vacuum decay Mathematics * Exponential decay Psychology and sociology * Decay theory, in psychology and memory * Social decay (decadence), in sociology * Urban decay, in sociology Entertainment * Network decay (channel drift), in television programming * Decay (DC Comics), a comic book character * '' Half-Life: Decay'', a 2001 video game add-on * Deekay, a Danish production team * Decay (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable in TNA Wrestling Film * ''Decay'' (2012 film), a 2012 zombie film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
