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aging
Gradual change in an organism that leads to increased risk of weakness, disease, and death. It takes place in a cell, an organ, or the total organism over the entire adult life span of any living thing. There is a decline in biological functions and in ability to adapt to metabolic stress. Changes in organs include the replacement of functional cardiovascular cells with fibrous tissue. Overall effects of aging include reduced immunity, loss of muscle strength, decline in memory and other aspects of cognition, and loss of color in the hair and elasticity in the skin. In women, the process accelerates after menopause. See also gerontology and geriatrics, old age.


Aying
Chinese critic and historian of modern Chinese literature. A member of the Communist Party and of the standing committee of the League of Left-Wing Writers, he began c.1930 to gather and study materials on the literature of modern times and of the Ming and Qing dynasties. His published works, incl. Women Writers in Modern China (1933) and Two Talks on the Novel (1958), contributed greatly to the record of modern culture in China.


baking
Process of cooking by dry heat, especially in an oven. Baked products include bread, cookies, pies, and pastries. Ingredients used in baking include flour, water, leavening agents (baker's yeast, baking soda, baking powder), shortening (fats, butter, oils), eggs, milk, and sugars. These are mixed together to create dough or batter, which is then transferred to a metal pan or sheet and heated. Leavening agents produce gas that becomes trapped in the dough, causing it to rise. Shortening makes doughs more easily workable and the final product tenderer. Egg whites are used to produce a light, airy texture, and yolks contribute color, flavor, and texture. Milk is used for flavoring, and sugars to sweeten and to aid fermentation.


barangay
Type of early Filipino settlement. Sailboats called balangay brought Malay settlers to the Philippines from Borneo. Each boat carried a family group that established a village. These villages, which sometimes grew to include 30-100 families and remained isolated from one another; the fact that no larger political grouping emerged (except on Mindanao) facilitated the 16th-cent. Spanish conquest. The Spanish retained the barangay as a unit of local administration.


dating
In geology and archaeology, the process of determining an object's or event's place within a chronological scheme. Scientists may use either relative dating, in which items are sequenced on the basis of stratigraphic clues (see stratigraphy) or a presumed evolution in form or structure, or absolute dating, in which items are assigned a date independent of context. The latter type includes potassium-argon and carbon-14 dating; both are based on the measurement of radioactive decay. The record of changes in polarity of the earth's magnetic field has provided a ...

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