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self-protection

STD The obligation one has to oneself to prevent the transmission of an infection–eg, HIV; SP assumes that the other partner may not disclose HIV status, and if one engages in consensual sexual activity, caveat emptor. See Contributory negligence, Negotiated safety, Sexual responsibility.

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Even if cows of different temperament types are kept under the same environmental conditions, the self-protective behaviors displayed when exposed to insects have obvious differences [8].

Study on the Detection of Dairy Cows' Self-Protective Behaviors Based on Vision Analysis

Fear is that inherent self-protective defense mechanism in each of us.

Principle number two: safety is just common sense

has exploited this approach as part of its development of the Minimox Self-Protective Alloy Treatment.

Alloy protection in a bottle

Lawyers facing such sanctions are more likely to be self-protective when it comes to admitting error and less likely to "bite the bullet" where warranted.

Death penalty

It is OK to include self-protective plans for the future as part of your forgiveness process; however, you don't need to hold a grudge in order to protect yourself.

Forgive a little every day to help you live life a healthier way; Victor Aziz, a consultant psychiatrist at Cwm Taf Local Health Board, looks at the issue of forgiveness Monday, 1 April 2013 THEPROFESSIONALS

Attitudes of superiority or inferiority are self-protective beliefs that arise from threats of self-worth.

President's message

Aoun seemed to condemn the victim's lack of adequate self-protective security measures arguing that Mikati himself offered him personal safety.

Politics - Aoun wants Mikati government to stay

Findings have pointed to the influence that organizations have on nurses' adoption of other self-protective behavior (e.g., adoption of universal precautions), making it clear that safe practice related to hazardous drug handling is a shared responsibility between employers and nurses.

Rights of registered nurses handling hazardous drugs

Although written to defend and protect "the Jewish position" on these matters--as if there were only one such, as a group the essays chronicle the story of American Judaism's withdrawal from classic liberal positions and alliances and its rightward self-protective move to embrace millennialist Protestants with their financial support for Israeli settlements, even if uneasily.

The Protestant-Jewish Conundrum

She often has both hands on her clutch bag, which is a slightly self-protective gesture but, as usual, she is poised and erect with great posture.

KATE AND WILLS ..THE LOOK OF LOVE; 'Even in the most public arena, when they gaze into each other's eyes they close out the rest of the world'

The approach and tone may be the difference between an effective change in behavior or a deteriorating pattern of self-protective and defensive reactions.

Treating nurses "fairly"

This work describes a method for identifying the psychological and interpersonal self-protective attachment strategies of adults by applying discourse analysis to semi-structured interviews.

Assessing adult attachment; a dynamic-maturational approach to discourse analysis