An ERD (Entity Relationship Diagram) is a graphical representation of the data in rest within a system (e.g. a business, an organization, an application) that is subject to analysis.
The U.S. EPA established the Reference Dose (RfD) Work Group to address these concerns. In preparing this report, the RfD Work Group has drawn on traditional report on risk assessment (NRC, 1983), to more fully articulate the use of noncancer, nonmutagenic experimental data in reaching regulatory decisions about the significance of exposures to chemicals.
Rheumatoid factor (RF) is the autoantibody (antibody directed against an organism's own tissues) that was first found in rheumatoid arthritis. It is defined as an antibody against the Fc portion of IgG (an antibody against an antibody) and different RFs can recognize different parts of the IgG-Fc.