Search results for "Self control" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • The control of hormones from the anterior pituitary exerts a negative ... For instance, in fish it is believed to control physiological color change ...
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  • stronghold and solidified Portuguese control of the entire eastern shore ... ceded Madagascar to France in exchange for control of another island nation ...
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  • Keynesian-style fiscal regulation, direct control of manpower, and state control ... * Beveridge, William H. British Food Control. Oxford University. 1928. ...
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  • rapidly increasing forces on the various control surfaces, which led to the ... to flex such that they counteracted the control input, leading to a condition ...
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  • It is concerned with the production, control, transmission, reception ... * [http://www.inceusa.org/ Institute of Noise Control Engineers] ...
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  • Infared light from the LED of a remote control as seen by a digital camera.]] ... IR is the most common way for remote control devices to command appliances ...
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  • of 2005, there is no known safe biological control to be used against ragweed ... It is considered important to control the spread of ragweed in large ...
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  • industrialized nations with effective fly control measures and good hygiene ... profit organizations implement trachoma control programs using the WHO-recommended ...
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  • also contributed to the development of the self-propelled, combined harvester ... monitoring systems, GPS locators, and self-steer programs allow the most ...
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  • order, the powerful army brought under its control the Turkmen, Uzbek, Tajik ... were straining to expand their area of control. After Ahmad Shah sacked ...
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  • a nation’s central bank can maintain control of such reserves by lending ... banks. The central bank retains tight control over its nation’s money ...
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  • affected as those outside the eye that control eye movement, jaw muscles ... *Control and destruction of meat containing trichinae, e.g., removal ...
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  • Tammany Hall is an example of how political parties, because they ... 1840s, the society expanded its political control even further by earning ...
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  • which fetched a high price on the market. Control of these, and other, spices ... power Aksum attempted to assert political control over the fledging Arabian ...
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  • in the field of cults and "mind control," receiving a number ... a person thought to be under "mind control" from a religious or ...
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  • Glasser as a repetitive activity without self-criticism or judgment that ... activity that can help with weight control through the expenditure ...
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  • ==Political self-government== The ancient Greeks used the word “autonomy” ... for various types of rational thought, self-control, and the absence of self ...
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  • Harvard, his famous 1911 textbook, and his control of the Quarterly Journal ... his influential 1911 textbook, and his control of the Quarterly Journal ...
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  • to describe the area still under Muslim control. Eventually a form of the ... the strait, and began a campaign to gain control of the region. Between the ...
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  • During Reconstruction, Radical Republicans increasingly took control ... In state after state in the south, the Redeemers movement seized ...
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  • Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies ... An automaton (plural: automata or automatons) is a self-operating ...
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  • of Hastings and the subsequent Norman control of England. It is an important ... agreements with local Saxon Lords to keep control of their land (under Norman ...
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  • in the 1300s B.C.E. for contested Egypt's control of Syria. Thutmose IV's peace treaty resulted in profitable relations between the two empires ...
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  • Batu subsequently established control over Orda's territorial ... Tatar tribute themselves. To maintain the control over Russia, Tatar warlords ...
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  • pushed out the Tang forces, gaining sole control of most of the Korean peninsula ... who had enjoyed a measure of influence and control during the previous decades ...
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  • of samo and yed, which translates to "self-eater." Since the twentieth ... Those who remained in Europe came under Russian control around 1200 ...
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  • Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers ... may fly without the use of the air traffic control system. Advances in computer ...
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  • lifestyle. It was based on the concept of self-reliance, which powers much ... the New York Sun in 1868, and remained in control of the Sun until his death ...
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  • keeping populations of prey species under control and thus aiding the balance ... They have been successfully employed to control pests on fruit farms, where ...
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  • Although the Eastern Jin had no longer any control over northwestern Korea, evidence points to people's affection for the Eastern Jin. Goguryeo ...
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  • about 58 walled fortresses under Baekje control, and defeated the forces ... Inner Mongolia, which he brought under his control. In 408, the king sent a ...
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  • In zoology, metamorphosis is the process of pronounced and relatively abrupt developmental change in the internal and external morphology of ...
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  • fireplaces, but may also be used for pest control (fumigation), communication ... * Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Secondhand smoke: ...
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  • * Bode plots are used in Control Theory. * The Dalitz plot is a scatterplot ... * Nichols plots are used in Control Theory. * The Nolan chart is a ...
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  • Illinois. Around this time Vanderbilt tried to gain control of the Erie Railroad, which brought him into direct conflict with Jay Gould, who was then ...
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  • Another form of social control is expressed in We by Evgeny Zamyatin ... Another feature of social control is the pressure to conform, sometimes ...
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  • size of higher trophic levels through bottom-up control. Top-down control in food chains or food webs limits the number of species on lower trophic ...
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  • tines or blades. Rotary tillers are either self propelled or drawn as an attachment ... Small, self-propelled rotary tillers are used in domestic gardens ...
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  • used by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is ... to other people. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends either: ...
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  • was purchased by Hollinger Inc. Under the control of Canadian conservative ... to those of neoliberalism: tight fiscal control on public spending, curbing ...
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  • the brain that links the body's two control systems, the nervous system ... and other autonomic activities; it is a control center for functions of ...
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  • absorption into the true nature of Self. This has been interpreted ... mind, because the mind is finally under control. Upon entering Nirvikalpa ...
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  • Akbar brought the Ajmer under Mughal control in 1559 until 1770 when ... In 1509, Maharajas of Mewar and Marwar contended for control Ajmer ...
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  • and although it survived, he lost control. In addition to pioneering ... engineering techniques and production control, but maintaining good worker ...
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  • including those that deal with power, control systems, electronics, signal ... of household appliances, or the electrical control of industrial machinery ...
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  • strengthen their bodies and gradually gain control over their central nervous ... stressed the importance of developing self-reliance and independence ...
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  • forces tried bloody repression to retain control and the cities in Cuba remained ... Urrutia, in reality, Castro was in control. == Post-1959 == ...
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  • In 1926, he returned to China and took control of a Kuomintang military ... In 1926, he returned to China and took control of a Kuomintang military ...
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  • a short seminar on statistical process control methods to members of the ... U.S. Census. He taught statistical process control (SPC) techniques to workers ...
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  • and became an advocate of rational arms control and nuclear disarmament. ... chain reaction. German attempts to control the chain reaction sought ...
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