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Pre-existence
Pre-Existence The question of pre-existence has come to the fore throughout Western history. Some people adhere to the Hebraic and Christian notions that the individual is created during the period between conception and birth and other people believe the human soul is somehow immortal, neither... Read more |
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Shamanism
S HAMANISM A shaman is one who serves his people by acting as an intermediary to the spirit world. The claimed ability to communicate with the world beyond death is at least as old as the time when early humans first conceived the idea that some part of... Read more |
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Malfeasance
MALFEASANCE The commission of an act that is unequivocally illegal or completely wrongful. Malfeasance is a comprehensive term used in both civil and criminal law to describe any act that is wrongful. It is not a distinct crime or tort, but may be used generally to describe any act that is... Read more |
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Francois Quesnay
Quesnay, FrançoisWORKS BY QUESNAYSUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHYFrançois Quesnay (1694-1774), the founder of the economic system that eventually came to be called the physiocratic system, was born in the village of Méré, not far from Versailles. His father, a country lawyer, earned a very small income.... Read more |
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Professional employees
BASEBALL Survival Perhaps the best thing that can be said about Major League Baseball in the 1980s is that it survived. Although the decade witnessed superb individual and team performances on the field, it was probably more notable for its labor disputes, strikes, threats of... Read more |
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Performance Measurement
Performance Measurement Improvement in individual, group, or organizational performance cannot occur unless there is some way of getting performance feedback. Feedback is having the outcomes of work communicated to the employee, work group, or company. For an individual employee, performance... Read more |
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Abbott Handerson Thayer
Thayer, Abbott Handerson (1849–1921). American painter and naturalist. He was born in Boston and trained in New York and Paris. In 1879 he returned to New York, where he became one of the most successful figure painters of the day. Matthew Baigell (Dictionary of American Art, 1979) writes... Read more |
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Neanderthal man
Neanderthal man or Neandertal man , a subspecies of Homo sapiens, the species to which contemporary humans belong, known as H. sapiens neandertalensis after Neanderthal, Germany, the valley where the first specimen was found. Many scientists classify Neanderthal as its own species ( H.... Read more |
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paranoia
paranoia , in psychology, a term denoting persistent, unalterable, systematized, logically reasoned delusions , or false beliefs, usually of persecution or grandeur. In the former case the paranoiac creates a complex delusional system that purports to show that people want to hurt him; in the... Read more |
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bioluminescence
bioluminescence , production of light by living organisms. Organisms that are bioluminescent include certain fungi and bacteria that emit light continuously. The dinoflagellates, a group of marine algae, produce light only when disturbed. Bioluminescent animals include such organisms as ctenophores,... Read more |
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