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Areas of professional knowledge: principles, rules, methods, materials and technologies. The ones the most occupations require come first.
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- Pay-per-click
Internet advertising model where an advert is place in a website directing traffic to some other website.
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- Pedorthics
Conditions that affect the feet and lower limbs, and the modification of footwear and supportive devices used to help fix these issues.
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- Performance diagnosis
The process that aims at solving problems by correctly identifying the organizational, process, and individual performance levels and how to improve them.
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- Pet diseases
The major diseases that can affect pets and their prevention.
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- Petroleum coking techniques
The processes used to produce petroleum cokes, or pet cokes, from heavy constituents of petroleum.
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- Philosophy of mathematics
The subdiscipline of mathematics that examines the philosophical foundations and implications of mathematics.
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- Play therapy
The therapy that uses play to communicate with and help children towards a better social integration, emotional development and trauma resolution.
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- Positions for surgical procedures
The common positions related to the surgical procedures and the use of the appropriate equipment such as fracture tables, head stabilisers, body stabilisers, C-arm extensions in…
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- Processes performed by tumbling
The various usages of the metal tumbling process, such as the cleaning, burnishing, deburring, descaling, rust-removing, surface hardening, de-flashing, polishing, brightening…
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- Prosthetic-orthotic examination
The examination, interview and measurement of patients to determine the prosthetic-orthotic device to be made, including their kind and size.
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- Questioned document examination
The forensic science discipline that uses scientific methods to provide evidence about a document used as evidence in court, such as origin, forgery, and authenticity.
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- Radiation effects on human body
The way specific body parts are more specifically affected by exposure to different types of radiation sources.
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- Radiological photography
The characteristics and methods applied to X-rays, which are used in medical field to detect diseases or fractures.
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- Radiopharmaceuticals
The medication containing radioisotopes, used for treating cancer.
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- Reed sensors
Sensors that detect the separation of multiple magnetic components, often used to detect the opening of doors and windows for burglary prevention.
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- Reinsurance
The practice whereby insurers transfer portions of their risk portfolios to other parties by some form of agreement to reduce the likelihood of paying a large obligation resulting…
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- Repossession
The procedures and legislation dealing with the confiscation of goods or property when a debt cannot be repaid.
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- Risk modelling
A mathematical representation of a system, commonly incorporating probability distributions and using relevant historical data as well as expert elicitation to understand the…
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- Roofing drones
Types of remotely operated aircraft (ROA) which are used for visually assessing roofing damage, image or video capturing and gathering general size information for roofing works…
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- Sandcarving
Process using high pressure sandblasting to carve motifs into materials such as glass, stone, wood and metal.
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- Screen printing machines
The different types of screen printing presses such as the cylinder press, the flat-bed press, and most importantly the rotary press.
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- Shale gas
The type of natural gas that can be found in shale formations.
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- Solid-state chemistry
Field of science, also called materials chemistry, studying the properties, synthesis and structure of materials, mostly inorganic, in the solid phase.
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- Solidity
The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Solidity.
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- Somatic integrated modalities
The indications, contraindications and modifications of physiotherapeutic modalities and other manual and therapeutic modalities based on various conditions and situations.
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- Sommelier activities
Types and brands of wine and their compatibility with food.
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- Sour gas sweetening processes
Processes of removing certain corrosive contaminants, such as hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) from raw gas, such as the Girdler process which uses amine solutions, or modern processes…
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- Sulphur recovery processes
Processes to recover elemental sulphur or other desired sulphuric products from acid gas obtained as a byproduct from the sweetening of raw gas, such as the Claus process, which…
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- Sword fighting
The various techniques and rules to safely use swords to re-enact combat scenes.
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- Techniques for doll creation
The methods of building moulds, attaching parts and handling different kind of handtools in order to create or repair dolls.
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- THC Hydra
The package THC Hydra is a parallelized login cracker which tests security weaknesses of the systems' protocols for potentially unauthorised access to system information.
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- Theatre pedagogy
Discipline combining theatrical means with educational elements in order to enforce learning, creativity and social awareness.
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- Timing devices
All mechanical and electric instruments that indicate time, such as clocks, watches, pendulums, hairsprings, and chronometers.
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- Types of ceiling
Various types of ceiling, such as tile ceilings, coffer ceilings and drop ceilings, each with their own advantages and disadvantages, risks, and costs.
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- Types of cooktops
Different types of cooking surface, such as gas stoves, induction cooktops and ceramic cooktops.
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- Types of cylindrical grinding processes
Types of processes used for grinding metal workpieces, such as inside diameter (ID) grinding, outside diameter (OD) grinding and centerless grinding.
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- Types of oaths
The various kinds of swearing such as testimonies on happenings, affirmation on the veracity of a declaration, professional oaths to become a doctor or veterinary, and royal oaths…
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- Types of straightening machine
Types of straightening machines, such as straightening presses, bending presses, stretching machines and their qualities and applications.
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- Types of wood chippers
Types of machines used for reducing wood (generally tree limbs or trunks) into smaller woodchips and properties of each.
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- Typology
The subdiscipline of linguistics that structurally categorises languages by describing the common properties and structural diversity of languages.
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- Use of special equipment for daily activities
The types of special equipment, prosthetics and orthotics used to aid with performing daily activities, such as wheelchairs.
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- Vacuum distillation processes
The process of distilling a liquid mixture at very low pressure.
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- Vinyl records
Rare vinyl records and record labels.
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- Voice interpreting
The practice of interpreting sign language signed by a hearing impaired person into an oral language for the hearing party that does not understand sign language.
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- Vojta therapy
The therapy based on reflex creeping, in a prone lying position of the patient and reflex rolling, in a side lying position of the patient, through a goal-directed pressure which…
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- Vyper
The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Vyper.
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- Water consumption
The factors which are involved in the calculation and estimation of water consumption in a residence or facility, and methods in which water consumption can be lowered or made…
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- Weigh in motion system
Weigh in motion systems, which measure the weight of a vehicle passing over and may send out an alarm if the vehicle is overloaded or unbalanced.
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- Wheel impact load detector
The wheel impact load detector or WILD, a detector that monitors the impact of railed vehicle wheels on the tracks.
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- Wide web flexographic printing press
Methods and restrictions of printing on flexographic printing presses, which use wide width of printing, can achieve high run speeds and utilise fast drying solvents.
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- Wound closure techniques
Wound healing techniques such as inflammation, tissue formation, tissue remodeling and skin anatomy, and the suturing materials used such as staples, synthetic sutures…
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- Yoga
The practice and principles of yoga, used as physical techniques to relax the body and mind.
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