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  2. Why Storms Make You Sleepy: The Science Behind Pre-Storm ...

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    We break down the changes your body goes through before a storm, including how it reacts to falling barometric pressure and why it may increase melatonin production. Why Storms Make You Sleepy ...

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    Here’s a list of 175 examples of performance review phrases to ... Makes well-informed and timely decisions under pressure. ... Makes poor decisions that negatively impact team performance and ...

  4. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 30

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    A FRIEND SAID THAT ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE OR BAROMETRIC PRESSURE CHANGES CAN AFFECT THE RESULTS OF MY STEPPING ON THE BATHROOM SCALE. IS THIS TRUE? AND IF SO, WHY? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gtigue (talk • contribs) 00:37, August 30, 2007 (UTC) If atmospheric pressure goes up, your apparent weight will be slightly less, because of ...

  5. Atmospheric pressure - Wikipedia

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    Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth. The standard atmosphere (symbol: atm) is a unit of pressure defined as 101,325 Pa (1,013.25 hPa ), which is equivalent to 1,013.25 millibars , [ 1 ] 760 mm Hg , 29.9212 inches Hg , or 14.696 psi . [ 2 ]

  6. Barotrauma - Wikipedia

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    Barotrauma is physical damage to body tissues caused by a difference in pressure between a gas space inside, or in contact with, the body and the surrounding gas or liquid. [1] [2] The initial damage is usually due to over-stretching the tissues in tension or shear, either directly by an expansion of the gas in the closed space or by pressure difference hydrostatically transmitted through the ...

  7. Decompression theory - Wikipedia

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    Gas is breathed at ambient pressure, and some of this gas dissolves into the blood and other fluids. Inert gas continues to be taken up until the gas dissolved in the tissues is in a state of equilibrium with the gas in the lungs (see saturation diving), or the ambient pressure is reduced until the inert gases dissolved in the tissues are at a higher concentration than the equilibrium state ...

  8. Effects of high altitude on humans - Wikipedia

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    Pressure as a function of the height above the sea level. The human body can perform best at sea level, [7] where the atmospheric pressure is 101,325 Pa or 1013.25 millibars (or 1 atm, by definition). The concentration of oxygen (O 2) in sea-level air is 20.9%, so the partial pressure of O 2 (pO 2) is 21.136 kilopascals (158.

  9. Hypobaric chamber - Wikipedia

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    Hypobaric chamber at the Biopol'H, in Catalonia (), used with patients and athletes who need treatment or training with reduced atmospheric pressure. A hypobaric chamber, or altitude chamber, is a chamber used during aerospace or high terrestrial altitude research or training to simulate the effects of high altitude on the human body, especially hypoxia (low oxygen) and hypobaria (low ambient ...