Civil confinement refers to a controversial procedure permitted by a law passed in New York, advocated by the former governor, Eliot Spitzer, allowing the civil commitment of sex offenders because they are deemed by a court to be a danger to themselves or to society.... for psychiatric patients
Psychosis
Psychosis , with adjective psychotic, literally means abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatry term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality"....
color confinement, the physical principle explaining the non-observation of color charge
Color charge
In particle physics, color charge is a property of quarks and gluons which are related to their strong interactions in the context of quantum chromodynamics .... d particles like free quark
Quark
Quarks are a type of elementary particle and major constituents of matter. They are the only particles in the Standard Model to experience all four fundamental interaction, which are also known as fundamental interactions.... s
Solitary confinement, colloquially referred to in American English as "the hole", lockdown, M2030D, "the SHU" or "the pound" , is a punishment or special form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is denied contact with any other persons, excluding members of prison staff.... , a strict form of imprisonment
Childbirth is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the delivery of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. The process of normal human childbirth is categorized in three stages of labour: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and delivery of the infant, and delivery of the placenta.....
A Zoology garden, abbreviated to zoo, is an institution in which living animals are exhibited in captivity. In addition to their status as tourist attractions and recreational facilities, modern zoos may engage in captive breeding programs, conservation study, and educational outreach....