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.
Dreadlocks, also locs, dreads, or in Sanskrit, Jata, are intentionally matted and sculpted ropes of hair. Various methods are used to encourage the formation of locks such as backcombing, braiding and rolling.n the West, dreadlocks have gained particular popularity among counterculture adherents such as hippies (from the 1990s onwards), crust punks, New Age travellers, goths and many members of the Rainbow Family.