PREDISPOSING FACTORS. A predisposing factor is a condition or situation that may make a person more at risk or susceptible to disease. Some predisposing factors include heredity, age, gender, environment, and lifestyle. Heredity is a predisposing factor when a trait inherited from a parent puts an individual at risk for certain diseases.
PRISM is a clandestine surveillance program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from at least nine major US internet companies. Since 2001 the United States government has increased its scope for such surveillance, and so this program was launched in 2007.
Publisher's Description. From GraphPad Software: GraphPad Prism, available for both Windows and Mac computers, combines scientific graphing, comprehensive curve fitting (nonlinear regression), understandable statistics, and data organization.raphPad Prism was originally designed for experimental biologists in medical schools and drug companies, especially those in pharmacology and physiology. Prism is now used much more broadly by all kinds of biologists, as well as social and physical scientists.