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Countries by mean wealth per adult.From 2021 publication of Credit Suisse. Countries by median wealth per adult.From 2021 publication of Credit Suisse. This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult or household, from sources such as UBS's annual Global Wealth Databook [1] and the OECD's Better Life Index. [2]
The word woman can be used generally, to mean any female human, or specifically, to mean an adult female human as contrasted with girl. The word girl originally meant "young person of either sex" in English; [ 16 ] it was only around the beginning of the 16th century that it came to mean specifically a female child. [ 17 ]
Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that impairs the ability to regulate sleep–wake cycles, and specifically impacts REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. [1] The pentad symptoms of narcolepsy include excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), sleep related hallucinations, sleep paralysis, disturbed nocturnal sleep (DNS) and cataplexy. [1]
An "event" can be either an apnea, characterized by complete cessation of airflow for at least 10 seconds, or a hypopnea in which airflow decreases by 50 percent for 10 seconds or decreases by 30 percent if there is an associated decrease in the oxygen saturation or an arousal from sleep. [59]
Prostitution is a type of sex work that involves engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment. [1] [2] The definition of "sexual activity" varies, and is often defined as an activity requiring physical contact (e.g., sexual intercourse, non-penetrative sex, manual sex, oral sex, etc.) with the customer. [3]
Diets, not just in terms of obesity but also of food composition, can have a major impact on underlying factors (see also #Aging below), with reviews suggesting i.a. that a 20-years old male in Europe who switches to the "optimal diet" could gain a mean of ~13.7 years of life and a 60-years old female in the U.S. switching to the "optimal diet ...
NoFap was founded in June 2011 by Pittsburgh web developer Alexander Rhodes after reading a thread on Reddit about a 2003 study, [5] [19] (which was retracted in 2021 due to overlap with another published article in Chinese), [20] which claimed that men who refrain from masturbation for seven days experience a 145.7% spike in testosterone levels on the seventh day.
The rotation rate was gradually slowed by magnetic braking, as the Sun's magnetic field interacted with the outflowing solar wind. [50] A vestige of this rapid primordial rotation still survives at the Sun's core, which has been found to be rotating at a rate of once per week; four times the mean surface rotation rate. [51] [52]