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  2. Venipuncture - Wikipedia

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    Tube cap color or type in order of draw Additive Usage and comments Blood culture bottle: Sodium polyanethol sulfonate (anticoagulant) and growth media for microorganisms: Usually drawn first for minimal risk of contamination. [12] Two bottles are typically collected in one blood draw; one for aerobic organisms and one for anaerobic organisms ...

  3. Phlebotomy - Wikipedia

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    A phlebotomy draw station is a place where blood is drawn from patients for laboratory testing, transfusions, donations, or research purposes. The blood is typically drawn via venipuncture or a finger stick by a healthcare professional such as a phlebotomist , nurse , or medical assistant . [ 21 ]

  4. Five paragraph order - Wikipedia

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    The five paragraph order or five paragraph field order is a style of organizing information about a military situation for a unit in the field. It is an element of Canadian Army , United States Army , United States Marine Corps and United States Navy Seabees small unit tactics, and similar order styles are used by military groups around the world.

  5. Drill commands - Wikipedia

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    Draw sabres: used to draw the sabres. Return sabres: used to return the sabres. Present sabres: used for officers to salute using their sabres. Shoulder/slope sabres: used for officers to slope the sabre in their left-hand shoulder. Order sabres: the sabre is lowered to the ground after presenting or sloping. A British soldier in the port arms ...

  6. Markov chain - Wikipedia

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    Mark V. Shaney is a third-order Markov chain program, and a Markov text generator. It ingests the sample text (the Tao Te Ching, or the posts of a Usenet group) and creates a massive list of every sequence of three successive words (triplet) which occurs in the text. It then chooses two words at random, and looks for a word which follows those ...

  7. Partially ordered set - Wikipedia

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    A linear extension is an extension that is also a linear (that is, total) order. As a classic example, the lexicographic order of totally ordered sets is a linear extension of their product order. Every partial order can be extended to a total order (order-extension principle). [16]

  8. Draw (chess) - Wikipedia

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    In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, neither player winning.Draws are codified by various rules of chess including stalemate (when the player to move is not in check but has no legal move), threefold repetition (when the same position occurs three times with the same player to move), and the fifty-move rule (when the last fifty successive moves made by both ...

  9. Exploded-view drawing - Wikipedia

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    An exploded-view drawing is a diagram, picture, schematic or technical drawing of an object, that shows the relationship or order of assembly of various parts. [1]It shows the components of an object slightly separated by distance, or suspended in surrounding space in the case of a three-dimensional exploded diagram.