Association
* Being in a nervous or overstimulated state of mind can cause rapid heartbeats.
* Most associations go through cycles of development.
* Often chronic alcoholism has weakened the liver , which can lead to cirrhosis.
* Some associations are cognition in nature, others behavioural, and still others, pathological.
* are a major way of organizing professions, directors, and other groups
  - alliances of individuals with one or more common interests
  - cousins of open clusters
  - economic engines that fuel America's prosperity
  - groups of sports officials together under one banner
  - how people with the same interests come together to work toward their common goals
  - like generalizations, categorizations, and statistics
  - nonprofit membership organizations
  - organizations which sponsor and administer one or more teams
  - sexual mating pairs of gregarines
  - unique entities, with unique needs when it comes to effective use of the Web
* comprehensive directory of all education associations and organisations.
* is an organization
  - chemical processes
  - important to, and is often used to connect the person to positive images or events
  - memory
  - one of the best ways for untrained persons to recall physical descriptions
  - relations
  - social activities
  - something that humans are incredibly good at, and computers are incredibly bad at
  - unions
* juridical body.
* list of sailing and boating clubs and associations.
* represent people with common business interests, hobbies, ethnicity or other features
  - relationships between objects in associated classes
* resulting from environmental factors is referred to as environmental correlation.

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Antibiosis
* is association
  - suspected to be the primary mechanism of disease suppression
* occurs when one organism is damaged or killed by another through a chemical secretion.
* refers to factors in a plant which reduce the survival, growth or reproduction of a pest.

Chamber of commerce
* Chambers of commerce can play a vital role in expanding business opportunities for women.
* Chambers of commerce is advocacy organizations

Civic association
* can play a number of roles in the electoral arena.
* facilitate the practice of direct democracy.

Free association
* is thinking
  - used with an ideosyncratic graphic scheme to show relations with other ideas
* technique which is often portrayed on television and in movies.

Guild
* Some guilds have a reputation as being unreasonable and possessive
  - meet once a month, and others meet only when organizing annual events
* are important places that reside inside towns and villages
  - interactive communities designed for each crafting area
  - still prevalent in America, as well as Europe

Homeowner association
* are permanent organizations with dedicated sources of funding.
* foster a sense of old fashioned neighborliness.
* irrigate large expanses of parks and greenbelts.

Housing association
* Most housing associations keep their property records on a computer system.
* provide rented housing to people applying to the council for housing.

National association
* Most national associations have medical advisory boards that review new treatments.
* oversee football within individual countries.

Negative association
* can ride the wave of positive transcendence.
* exist when one variable increases as the other variable decreases in value.