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Year 2000 problem
Year 2000 problem Y2K problem, or millennium bug, in computer science, a design flaw in the hardware or software of a computer that caused erroneous results when working with dates beyond Dec. 31, 1999. In the 1960s and 70s programmers who designed computer systems dropped the first two... Read more |
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Social Problems
Social ProblemsHistory of social problems approachTheoretical issuesSocial pathologySocial problems and social disorganizationSocial problems as dysfunctionsSocial problems as deviationFuture of social problems approachBIBLIOGRAPHYSocial problems are described most simply as perplexing questions... Read more |
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Conundrum
Conundrum BIBLIOGRAPHY Conundrums are problems of several types. They may be riddles with a pun for an answer. They may be puzzling problems that are complicated with intricate features. And they may be presented in the fashion of a rhetorical question, but with only conjecture for an... Read more |
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Titus (early Christian)
Titus (4th cent.), Bp. of Bostra. He wrote a long treatise against the Manichaeans. In the first part he gives the Christian solution to the problem of evil based on the ideas of Divine Providence and human free will; in the second he defends the OT and denounces the Manichaean falsifications of... Read more |
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Lake Nasser
Lake Nasser c.1,550 sq mi (4,010 sq km), on the Nile River, SE Egypt and N Sudan. Created in the 1960s, it extends c.350 mi (560 km) behind Aswan High Dam, submerging the more southern second and third cataracts. Lake Nasser averages c.6 mi (10 km) in width and is 600 ft (1,000 km) deep in places.... Read more |
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Social Institutions
Social InstitutionsI. THE CONCEPTShmuel N. EisenstadtII. COMPARATIVE STUDYShmuel N. EisenstadtI THE CONCEPTSocial institutions are usually conceived of as the basic focuses of social organization, common to all societies and dealing with some of the basic universal problems of ordered social life.... Read more |
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Sexual Dysfunction
Sexual Dysfunction Psychosexual disorders were listed for the first time in 1980 in the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), a handbook used by almost all mental health professionals. This listing has led to an... Read more |
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Orthopedic surgery
Orthopedic surgery Definition Orthopedic (sometimes spelled orthopedic) surgery is an operation performed by a medical specialist such as an orthopedist or orthopedic surgeon, who is trained to assess and treat problems that develop in the bones, joints, and ligaments of the... Read more |
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statistics
statistics science of collecting and classifying a group of facts according to their relative number and determining certain values that represent characteristics of the group. The most familiar statistical measure is the arithmetic mean , which is an average value for a group of numerical... Read more |
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federal government
federal government or federation, government of a union of states in which sovereignty is divided between a central authority and component state authorities. A federation differs from a confederation in that the central power acts directly upon individuals as well as upon states, thus creating... Read more |
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February 29 creates a second Y2K problem
...University Wire 02-29-2000 (Ka Leo O Hawaii...The leap year that creates an extra day in February 2000 is an unusual...called "the other Y2K problem" by computer experts. Another February 29 like this ... |
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Oracle release 11i sparks mixed reaction.(Business Applications Release 11i...
...slated for release in February of next year. The...of technological problems and worries that...buying because of Y2K-related freezes...is due out in the second quarter of next year...databases in any of 29 languages and ... |