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Merchantable
MERCHANTABLE Salable; of quality and type ordinarily acceptable among vendors and buyers. An item is deemed merchantable if it is reasonably fit for the ordinary purposes for which such products are manufactured and sold. For example, soap is merchantable if it cleans. In general, a seller or... Read more |
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Marker
Marker Background Markers, or felt-tip pens, serve a variety of functions. Children use them to make bright, colorful drawings. The stereotypical teacher uses a glaring, unmistakable red felt-tip to grade papers. Retail employees, roadside vendors, performers, and protestors... Read more |
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Line-Item Veto
VETO, LINE-ITEM VETO, LINE-ITEM. In 1996 President Bill Clinton received what presidents had wanted for many years, the "line-item veto." This gave the president the power to select out undesirable items in appropriations bills, in bills granting certain tax breaks, and in bills creating or... Read more |
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Life cycle assessment
Life Cycle Analysis A typical product has a range of environmental impact arising from its manufacture, use, and disposal. A life cycle assessment (LCA) evaluates the entire environmental impact of a product through its life cycle. An LCA might, for example, compare the environmental impact of... Read more |
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Fans
Fans The fan, a simple device by which a person can wave air at his or her body in order to cool it, has been one of the most basic fashion accessories for thousands of years. There is evidence that some type of flat paddle used to move air had been used in ancient Mesopotamia (the region centered... Read more |
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Sampling (Statistics)
Sampling SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING STRATIFIED SAMPLING BIBLIOGRAPHY A sample is a subset of items, objects, or elements from a larger group of interest, called the population. When an observed sample is used to make inferences about the unobserved population, chance factors... Read more |
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Foreign bodies
Foreign objects Definition Foreign bodies can enter the human body by swallowing, insertion, or traumatic force, either accidentally or on purpose. The word "foreign" in this context means "originating elsewhere" or simply "outside the body." Description Children and... Read more |
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Matrices (Mathematics)
Matrix Algebra BIBLIOGRAPHY Real numbers can be used to convey one-dimensional information, such as a family’s total expenditure in a month. However, if one wants to record the monthly expenditures of two families (indexed by 1, 2) on three items... Read more |
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Reuse
Reuse The reuse of products, materials, and parts can have significant environmental and economic benefits. Waste is not just created when consumers throw items away. Waste is generated throughout the life cycle of a product, from extraction of raw materials, to transportation to processing and... Read more |
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