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Dracunculiasis, also called guinea worm disease (GWD), is an infection by the guinea worm.

The first well known worm was the Internet Worm of 1988, which infected SunOS and VAX BSD systems.

It is partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm.

Guinea worm disease has been known since ancient times.

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But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

Dambudzo Marechera's image and his poem THE BAR STOOL EDIBLE WORM. Image posted on his Facebook page.

I am against everything, Marechera declared in The Bar Stool Edible Worm, one of his most popular poems

Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you, says Yahweh, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

The pork tapeworm is particularly common in Asia, Sub Saharan Africa, and Latin America.

A software system is a system of intercommunicating components based on software forming part of a computer system (a combination of hardware and software).

Unlike diseases such as smallpox and polio, there is no vaccine or drug therapy for guinea worm.

The bootlace worm (Lineus longissimus) is one of the longest known animals, with specimens up to long and up to wide being reported.

That would give Abbas an additional 3,000 well equipped and trained troops.

Now I'm going to mark on the toughness values for nylon fiber, bombyx or domesticated silkworm silk wool, Kevlar, and carbon fibers.

One example is the tobacco hornworm, which concentrates nicotine to a toxic level in its body as it consumes tobacco plants.

These larger cells are mostly found in applications for the military, for example in Mark 37 torpedoes or on Alfa class submarines.

Under the Federal Law on War Materiel, the manufacture, brokering, export and transit of war materiel are subject to authorization by the Swiss Government.

Since the rise of reconfigurable programmable logic devices, sharing of logic designs has been a form of open source hardware.

Therefore, the Department requires each mission to submit an acquisition plan identifying their material requirements for the upcoming fiscal year.

Intelligence collection is a good example, and the elaborate Stuxnet worm that disabled Iranian nuclear centrifuges seems to have been a government creation.

Welcoming the achievements, and encouraging further efforts at reducing the military assets in line with the Agreement on Subregional Arms Control,

And because I have always been known to be a bookworm, I tried to transfer this love of reading and learning to my daughter.

ATI has since merged with AMD Corporation and has taken steps to make their hardware documentation available for use by the free software community.

A prize of war is a piece of military property seized by the victorious party after a war or battle, typically at sea.

The silk worm does a remarkable thing it uses these two ingredients, protein and water, that are in its gland, to make a material that is exceptionally tough for protection so comparable to technical fibers like Kevlar.

Also, software must be changed or hardware added to allow these factory set MSB chips to be used in place of the default '0000' chips.

Enzymes Enzyme based DNA computers are usually of the form of a simple Turing machine there is analogous hardware, in the form of an enzyme, and software, in the form of DNA.

This included two Agusta A109 helicopters captured by the British Army from the Argentine Army which were used by the Army Air Corps until 2007.

12. Requests the Secretary General to develop more systematic links with Member States offering military assets for natural disaster response in order to identify the availability of such assets

You want everybody, like we're doing now, to work at the same time, and that can only happen if these people all together decide to share the information, and that's exactly what open hardware is about.

The name dracunculiasis is derived from the Latin affliction with little dragons , while the name guinea worm appeared after Europeans saw the disease on the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 17th century.

1. Calls upon all States to implement fully Security Council measures targeting the link between the trade in conflict diamonds and the supply to rebel movements of weapons, fuel or other prohibited materiel

However much military hardware a superpower owns, decay of the will to use it is the same thing as a decay of effective power. After a time, it ceases to overawe.

RIGA It should surprise no one that many in Latvia view the sale by France of fully equipped assault warships to Russia with grave concern.

To achieve their aim, Al Qaida and the Taliban would prefer to use weapons or materiel that have been designed for military purposes, although commercial, dual use materiel can also be relatively effective, as can improvised weapons.

To generate income from the forest environment, the Government conducted training for women in forestry so they could carry out economically productive activities such as culturing beehives to make honey, using cocoons to make natural silk and encouragement to grow herbal plants.

In a recent event at the Faculty of Law ( El Fateh University) where being the bookworm that I was, I made sure to attend their book exhibition for the opportunity to buy at subsidised prices, I came across a novel called Hunger has many other faces (unofficial translation).

One for extracting oxygen out of the deep sea water, another one which houses this chemosynthetic bacteria, which takes the hydrothermal fluid that hot water that you saw coming out of the bottom and converts that into simple sugars that the tube worm can digest.

Clearly these constraints are much less evident in areas of conflict, or where there is a lack of government control, but where laws are enforced, the terrorists must find alternative ways to procure the necessary materials without detection.

Aware of the heavy burden of air transport costs and the Advisory Committee's recommendation that they should be reduced if possible, her delegation welcomed the plan to use existing air assets, including those of the World Food Programme.

What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans. The lessons from that discovery, and others, are pointing to how we might one day significantly extend youthful human life.