Search results for "System" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • involved in vision are known as the visual system. There is disagreement ... In this case, a sense is considered a system involving sensory cells that ...
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  • A decimal (or denary) system is a numeral system that has the number ten as its base. The term decimal is also used for a number written in this ...
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  • early twentieth century, the national park system was created in the United States. ... is discharged into a river, lake, or ocean system. Developing nations are likewise ...
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  • In Logic, "syntax" refers to the part of a formal system ... In logic, syntax is the part of a formal system that defines the formal ...
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  • ), sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system (phonetic ... Wade-Giles was the main system of transcription in the English-speaking ...
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  • organ in vertebrates. Part of the urinary system, a kidney filters and excretes ... The action of nephrons are regulated by the endocrine system by hormones ...
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  • photon of light absorbed by a chemical system, only one molecule is activated ... utilizes the SI, or metric, measurement system. Important units and constants ...
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  • | system = Isometric | twinning = | cleavage = Indistinct | fracture = Conchoidal to uneven | mohs = 5 - 6 ...
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  • In general, the cells, tissues, and organs of the endocrine system ... lobe by way of a special capillary system, called the hypothalamic ...
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  • ==The Ashrama system== According to the Hindu Ashrama system, the average human life was ...
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  • autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack the joints), and ... Inflammation is part of the innate immune system, that is, the immediate ...
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  • The desired result of an alarm system is to cause an appropriate alarm ... These may connect to the regular phone system on the system side of the ...
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  • Alfred North Whitehead also suggested a system with five axioms. ... E.J. Lemmon that we should refer to it as system L, we do not have any axiom ...
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  • for the universal social security system, which served as the basis ... the implementation of the national system of labor exchanges. In 1909 ...
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  • The braille system, devised in 1821 by Frenchman Louis Braille, is ... Louis Braille, himself blinded at the age of three, developed his ...
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  • There are 240 known moons within the solar system, including 163 orbiting the ... companion called Charon. The Pluto-Charon system is unusual in that the center ...
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  • to yield further results. To axiomatize a system of knowledge is to show that ... view, logic becomes just another formal system. A set of axioms should be ...
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  • Institute of the New York State Hospital system (shortly afterwards given ... of mental disorders, he invented a new system of classification, "ergasiology ...
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  • outside of or apart from a formal logical system or theory. ... true; existence within a logical system; variables; the theory of ...
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  • by neurons in both the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and central nervous ... In the autonomic nervous system, acetylcholine serves as a neurotransmitter ...
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  • or a general education, for many this system is regarded as elitist and ... age of 18 and managed under the Tripartite System introduced by Conservative ...
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  • various duet systems. The popular Maccann system was developed towards the ... century, often using English and Anglo-system concertinas. Concertinas ...
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  • adapted to create an early identification system. Such practices soon evolved ... in 1883, to include an identification system based on unchanging measurements ...
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  • laesa). It is part of the innate immune system, that is, the immediate ... ==Limbic system encephalitis== In a small number of cases, called limbic ...
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  • without adopting the entire parent system for each doctrine. It is ... C.E.), who attached themselves to no real system, but selected from existing ...
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  • Telemetry is a technology that allows the remote measurement and reporting of information of interest to the system designer or operator. The ...
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  • signs, according to the coordinate system chosen). When the force does ... * W = work done on the system * P = external pressure * V = volume ...
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  • and must be removed from the system. In addition to respiratory functions ... multicellularity: an efficient circulatory system that conveyed gases to and ...
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  • here has a sound and complete axiomatic system, i.e. the system in which ... The system T is obtained by adding the axiom scheme T to K. T is sound ...
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  • which are evident in the International System of Units (SI). Specifically ... ===Imperial system=== Imperial Unit Before SI units were widely adopted ...
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  • *The word 'sewerage' can mean (a) a system of sewers; or ... The first sanitation system was found in the prehistoric Middle East ...
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  • world involve energy, and within a closed system the total amount of that ... Central to this are the concepts of system and surroundings. A system ...
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  • Lymphoma is any of a diverse group of cancers that originate in lymphocytes of the lymphatic system, a secondary (but open) circulatory system ...
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  • resolved to establish a new philosophical system from the ground up. of their reactions to Descartes' system. Because his thoughts inspired ...
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  • Safety engineering is an applied science closely related to systems engineering and its subset, System Safety Engineering. Safety engineering ...
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  • The Saint Lawrence River and Seaway System is a large hydrographic system in east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ...
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  • academics asserting that the international system that exists today began at ... as the beginning of the international system with which the discipline deals. ...
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  • ideas, but neither did he create a system of his own like the German ... , and in the more systematic treatises System der Philosophie als evidente ...
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  • The notion that arithmetic can be a formal system was refuted, however ... to or comprehended in a formal axiomatic system. Altnough it may not prove ...
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  • such as through the skin or digestive system, while venoms must first ... of neurotoxins (which attack the nervous system), hemotoxins (which attack ...
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  • (OCLC) in 1967, a computerized library system which connects 54 college ... == Dewey Decimal System == The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC, also ...
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  • Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders and diseases of the nervous system. In the past the term has been used more generally ...
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  • schools, as part of their education system, issues raised by this type ... In 1528, the state of Saxony created the first general system of schools ...
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  • is kept constant within a closed system. The law was named after ... :P denotes the pressure of the system. :V is the volume of the gas. ...
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  • beyond the Solar System. The study of chemicals within the Solar System is usually called cosmochemistry. So far, astronomers have discovered ...
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  • In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a specific point at which the system's mass behaves (for many purposes) ...
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  • of the animal's central nervous system. However, in the case of ... of the invertebrate's central nervous system. In most cases, this nerve ...
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  • | system = orthorhombic | fracture = conchoidal | mohs = 8 ... Topaz crystallizes in the orthorhombic system and its crystals are ...
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  • according to the country and the legal system involved. However, legal ... reporters, the West National Reporter System, the West American Digest ...
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  • in order to correctly understand whether a system of government is a oligarchy. ... support. In evaluating an oligarchic system of government, the extent ...
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