Polity
* is administration
  - akin to the word politics and refers to church organization
  - one of the world's leading social science and humanities publishers
  - order
  - organizations
* means form of government.
* mixed regimes which combines elements of democracy and oligarchy.

Pampas
* Most pampases are part of Argentina.
* has no set routes of dispersal.
* is taken from an Indian word meaning plain.
* threatens the productivity of plantation forests and land of high conservation value.

Political philosophy
* attends to political life.
* begins by asking what kind of political institutions fit human nature.
* compass of leadership.
* indicates government is most efficient with maximum individual freedom.
* investigates the principles which underlie the structure of a good society.
* is regarded by some as including political activity itself.

Pessimism
* acknowledges both angel and brute in man s permanent constitution.
* can also become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
* comes from the ancient as well as the modern ruling classes.
* is abnormal
  - also partly a failure of imagination
  - belief systems
  - despair
  - dispositions
  - rooted in the same soil as the inability to be at the disposal of others
* is the dominant mood at present
  - order of the day, inside and outside Japan
  - widespread
* negative, unscientific, and emotional reaction.
* replaces optimism.
* requires action, whereas optimism means staying the course.
* self-fulfilling prophecy.

Pilotage
* is primarily the art of navigating by landmarks
  - the using known landmarks in an attempt to navigate
  - trade
* method of determining location of an airplane by following a map.

Proteomic
* approaches to analyze protein kinase specificity.
* complex discipline requiring a long learning curve.
* depends on bioinformatics because of the large amount of information that's generated.
* gives an overall view of developmental changes in gene functions.
* has applications beyond cancer
  - broad applications in disease diagnosis, drug discovery, and agriculture
* involves studying the gene products of a disease or developmental state.
* is all about the proteins that the genome tells an organism to make
  - an emerging technology in modern drug discovery and is complementary to genomics
  - even more difficult than genomics, because the chemistry of proteins is so complex
  - one of the tools used to explore the complexity of intracellular signaling networks
  - really just high throughput protein biology
  - simply the study of the complete set of proteins encoded by a particular organism
* is the analysis of all proteins in a cell, tissue, or organism
  - automated, large-scale study of how proteins work
  - global search for and identification and prediction of protein function
* is the next step to understanding how cells work in the body
  - wave of molecular medicine after genomics
  - study if the protein complement of the genome
* is the study of how proteins function under different situations
  - protein function in living organims
* is the study of proteins for drug development
  - that are expressed by the genetic array of an organism
  - the complete protein complement of the cell, tissue, or organism
  - systematic study of the full set of proteins encoded by a genome
* promising new field comprising of the study of protein expression and function.
* proposes to examine thousands of proteins at once.
* rapidly expanding field of research into how proteins encoded in genes work.
* seeks to provide functional information for all the proteins.