An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms or stops their growth. Antimicrobial medicines can be grouped according to the microorganisms they act primarily against. For example, antibiotics are used against bacteria, and antifungals are used against fungi. They can also be classified according to their function. Agents that kill microbes are microbicidal, while those that merely stop their growth are called biostatic. The use of antimicrobial medicines to treat infection is known as antimicrobial chemotherapy, while the use of antimicrobial medicines to prevent infection is called antimicrobial prophylaxis.
The main types of antimicrobial agents are disinfectants (such as bleach), which kill a wide range of microbes on non-living surfaces to prevent the spread of illness, antiseptics (which are applied to living tissue and help reduce infection during surgery), and antibiotics (which kill microorganisms within the body). The term "antibiotic" originally described only those creations that came from living microorganisms but is now also applied to synthetic agents, such as sulfonamides or fluoroquinolones. The term also used to be only applied to antibacterials, but its meaning has widened to include all antimicrobials. Antibacterial agents can be further grouped into bactericidal agents, which kill bacteria, and bacteriostatic agents, which slow down or stall bacterial growth. In response, further advancements in antimicrobial technologies have resulted in solutions that can go past simply stopping germ growth. Instead, certain types of porous media have been made to kill microbes on contact.
Pharmacotheraphy
Pharmacotherapy is therapy using medication, as separate from therapy using surgery (surgical therapy), radiation (radiation therapy), movement (physical therapy), or other methods. Among physicians, sometimes the term medical therapy refers specifically to pharmacotherapy as separate to surgical or other therapy; for example, in oncology, medical oncology is differentiated from surgical oncology. Pharmacists are experts in pharmacotherapy and are responsible for ensuring the safe, appropriate, and economical use of pharmaceutical drugs. The skills required to function as a pharmacist require knowledge, training and experience in biomedical, pharmaceutical and clinical sciences. Pharmacology is the science that aims to continually improve pharmacotherapy. The pharmaceutical industry and academia use basic science, applied science, and translational science to create new pharmaceutical drugs.
Inna Makarova
Inna Vladimirovna Makarova (; 28 July 1926 – 25 March 2020) was a Russian actress. She is best known for her role as Lyubov Shevtsova in "The Young Guard" (1948). Her other movie credits include "It Happened in the Donbass" (1945), "The Return of Vasili Bortnikov" (1953),"The Rumyantsev Case" (1956), "The Height" (1957), "Balzaminov's Marriage" (1964), "Russian field" (1971), "It Is Not Evening Yet" (1973) and "Dead Souls" (1984). In 1985, she was made a People's Artist of the USSR.
Makarova was born in Tayga and grew up in Novosibirsk. She was married to Sergei Bondarchuk. Her daughter was actress Natalya Bondarchuk. She died in Moscow on 25 March 2020 at the age of 93.
Farzaneh Taidi
Farzaneh Taidi (‎; 1945 – 25 March 2020) was an Iranian actress. She was born in Tehran. She appeared in a number of Persian language movies starting in the 1970s. Her movie credits include "Hell + Me", "The Eighth Day of the Week" and "The Journey of the Stone". She also appeared in "Not Without My Daughter" (1991).
On 25 March 2020, Taidi died in London, United Kingdom of cancer. She was 74 or 75.
Detto Mariano
Detto Mariano (born Mariano Detto; 27 July 1937 – 25 March 2020) was an Italian musician. He was also a composer, arranger, lyricist, pianist and record producer. His career started in 1958. He is best known as a member of I Ribelli. He was born in Monte Urano, Marche.
On 25 March 2020, during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, Mariano died in Milan due to COVID-19. He was 82.
Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer-songwriter, musician, actor and movie director. He is known as ""il Molleggiato"". He was born in Milan. In 1962, Celentano founded the Italian record label "Clan Celentano". His best known works are "24.000 Baci", "Il Tuo Bacio e’ Come un Rock" and "Si e’ Spento il Sole".
Eric Weissberg
Eric Weissberg (August 16, 1939 – March 22, 2020) was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist. He was known for his banjo solo in "Dueling Banjos". It was released as a single that reached number 2 in the United States and Canada in 1973. Weissberg was a member of the folk group The Tarriers. Weissberg was born in New York City.
Weussberg died on March 22, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan of Alzheimer's disease-related problems, aged 80.
ICQ
ICQ is a cross-platform instant messaging and VoIP client. The name ICQ derives from the English phrase "I Seek You". Originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, the client was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.Ru Group in 2010.
The ICQ client application and service were initially released in November 1996, freely available to download. ICQ was among the first stand-alone instant messenger (IM)—while real-time chat was not in itself new (Internet Relay Chat (IRC) being the most common platform at the time), the concept of a fully centralized service with individual user accounts focused on one-on-one conversations set the blueprint for later instant messaging services like AIM, and its influence is seen in modern social media applications. ICQ became the first widely adopted IM platform.
At its peak around 2001, ICQ had more than 100 million accounts registered. At the time of the Mail.Ru acquisition in 2010, there were around 42 million daily users. Since 2013, ICQ has 11 million monthly users.
List of people who have walked on the Moon
Twelve people have walked on Earth's Moon, starting with Neil Armstrong and ending with Gene Cernan. All crewed lunar landings took place between July 1969 and December 1972 as part of the United States Apollo program. All twelve people who have walked on the Moon are American men.
List of Apollo astronauts
NASA assigned 32 American astronauts to the Apollo lunar landing program, and 24, flying on nine missions between December 1968 and December 1972, orbited the Moon.
During six two-man landing missions twelve astronauts walked on the lunar surface, and six of those drove Lunar Roving Vehicles. Three flew to the Moon twice, one orbiting both times and two landing once apiece. From these 24 men, no human being has gone beyond low Earth orbit.
Thomas P. Stafford
Thomas Patten Stafford (born September 17, 1930; Lt Gen, USAF, Ret.) is an American former Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.
Stafford commissioned in the United States Air Force, flying the F-86 Sabre prior becoming a test pilot.
He was selected to become an astronaut in 1962, and flew aboard Gemini 6A and Gemini 9.
In 1969, Stafford was the Commander of Apollo 10, the second crewed mission to orbit the Moon and the first to fly a Lunar Module in lunar orbit, descending to an altitude of nine miles.
In 1975, Stafford was the commander of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project flight, the first joint U.S.-Soviet space mission.
Lunar Roving Vehicle
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972. They are popularly known as "Moon buggies", a play on the words "dune buggy".
These three LRVs remain on the Moon.
List of The Loud House episodes
The Loud House is an American animated television series broadcast on Nickelodeon. The series started showing on May 2, 2016.