The unique public health functions and services are reflected in the core programs and in the. public health strategies by which those core programs are implemented. The more generic. maintenance and support functions are considered to be aspects of system capacity.
Also found in: Dictionary. livelock. /li:v'lok/ When two or more processes continuously change their state in response to changes in the other process(es) without doing any useful work. This is similar to deadlock in that no progress is made but differs in that neither process is blocked or waiting for anything.
The Woman with the Longest Dreadlocks. Asha Mandela has a lock on a world record that others might dread: The world's longest dreadlocks. The 50-year-old Atlanta resident has earned the name the Black Rapunzel because she holds the Guinness World Record for World's Longest Dreadlocks, which she has owned since 2008.