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Levels or ranges (actual attribute values) that, when exceeded, indicate that a process may have drifted from its normal operating condition. Alert Levels constitute a warning and do not necessarily require a corrective action.

Levels or ranges (actual attribute values) that, when exceeded, indicate that a process may have drifted from its normal operating condition. Alert Levels constitute a warning and do not necessarily require a corrective action.

Level set by the user in the context of a controlled environment, giving early warning of a drift from normal conditions, which, when exceeded, should result in increased attention to the process.

Microbiological level set by the user for a controlled environment, giving early warning of a potential drift from normal conditions.NOTE: When alert levels are exceeded, this should result in increased attention to the process.ISO 14698-2.

Criteria established with the intent of notification and possible corrective action prior to exceeding action limits; alert when a parameter is drifting toward extremes of the operating range.

Criteria established with the intent of notification and possible corrective action prior to exceeding action limits; alert when a parameter is drifting toward extremes of the operating range.

Criteria established with the intent of notification and possible corrective action prior to exceeding action limits; alert when a parameter is drifting toward extremes of the operating range.

Used in determining when a parameter is drifting toward extremes of the operating range.

Used in determining when a parameter is drifting toward extremes of the operating range.

Used in determining when a parameter is drifting toward extremes of the operating range.

A division of cellular cryptogamous plants. They lack true stems, roots, and leaves but usually contain chlorophyll i.e., kelps and seaweeds.

Single-celled plants, such as Chlorella spp. and Spirulina spp., are grown commercially in ponds to make feed materials. Chlorella is grown commercially to make into fish food: it is fed to zooplankton, and these in turn are harvested as feed for fish farms. This is a means of converting sunlight into food in a way more convenient and controllable than normal farming.

Any sequence of operations for performing a specific task.

(IEEE) A finite set of well-defined rules for the solution of a problem in a finite number of steps

(IEEE) A software V&V task to ensure that the algorithms selected are correct, appropriate, and stable, and meet all accuracy, timing, and sizing requirements.

Of, pertaining to, or designating an exact divisor or factor of a quantity, specially of an integer. To divide out a sample into multiple containers for multiple analytical tests.

Administrative Law Judge

Office of the Administrative Law Judge (OC)

An expression of the total amount of basic anions (hydroxyl groups) present in a solution. In water analysis, it also represents the presence of carbonate, bicarbonate, and occasionally borate, silicate, and phosphate salts that react to produce hydroxyl groups. Bicarbonate and carbonate ions are expected to be in most waters. Hydroxide may occur in water that has been softened by the lime soda process or has been in contact with fresh concrete. Alkalinity furnishes a guide in choosing appropriate treatment of either raw water or plant effluents.

The introduction, by substitution or addition, of an alkyl group into an organic compound; alkylating agents are various substances that contain an alkyl radical and that can, therefore, replace a hydrogen atom in an organic compound; alkylation is used to prevent refolding of already reduced proteins during peptide mapping.

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia

The clear white portion of an egg. In influenza vaccine manufacturing, the virus is propagated in the embryonic chick and sloughed into the allantoic fluid that is harvested to produce the vaccine.

Allelomorph (adj: allelic, allelomorphic). One of a pair, or series, of variant forms of a gene that occur at a given locus in a chromosome. Alleles are symbolized with the same basic symbol (e.g., B for dominant and b for recessive); B1, B2, ..., Bn for n additive alleles at a locus). In a normal diploid cell there are two alleles of any one gene (one from each parent), which occupy the same relative position (locus) on homologous chromosomes. Within a population there may be more than two alleles of a gene.