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Exit Poll
Exit Poll HOW CONDUCTED PROBLEMS WITH U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY Exit polls are surveys based upon voter interviews immediately after they have finished voting. The exit polls play a significant part in media projecting election winners and their margin of victory. The polls... Read more |
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Exit Strategy
Exit Strategy An exit strategy in the business world can refer to how a person or entity will leave a firm or part of a firm behind; this can mean selling, liquidating, or in some cases, the complete demolition of an entire corporation (or a branch thereof). An exit strategy is a plan devised by a... Read more |
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Claustrophobia
CLAUSTROPHOBIA Benjamin Ball introduced the term "claustrophobia" into the field of psychiatric semiology in 1879. It is derived from the Latin claustrum (enclosed place) and the Greek phobos (fear). Claustrophobia is defined as the fear of enclosed spaces. Faced with the impossibility of escape,... Read more |
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sphincter
sphincter A band of muscle encircling one of the body's ‘tubes’, and so able to alter the ‘bore’ by contracting/relaxing. In the alimentary tract there are sphincters at the exit from the stomach, between the small and large intestine, and at the anus; another regulates... Read more |
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Ferris Wheel
Ferris Wheel Background A ferris wheel is an amusement park ride consisting of a large vertical wheel with places for people to sit or stand spaced evenly around the outer circumference. In operation, the ferris wheel revolves about a horizontal axis, and the riders are... Read more |
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Appleton
Appleton city (1990 pop. 65,695), seat of Outagamie co., E Wis., on the Fox River near its exit from the northern end of Lake Winnebago, in a dairying and stockraising region; inc. 1857. Waterfalls provide power for the city's industries, which produce paper, wood, metal, concrete, and dairy... Read more |
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fire escape
fire escape in architecture, device, either fixed or movable, to facilitate escape from a burning building. In the United States the term usually is applied to the common iron balconies and stairways or ladders that give exterior egress from each floor to the ground. In England the term refers to a... Read more |
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maze
maze detail of landscape gardening based on the Greek labyrinth , consisting of intricate paths or alleys lined with high hedges and having a center and exit difficult to find. It was a prominent feature in the formal English gardens of the 17th and 18th cent., the most notable being that of... Read more |
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porch
porch. 1. Covered place of entrance and exit attached to a building and projecting in front of its main mass, such as the south porch of a medieval church, often with a room over it. 2. Interior volume serving as a vestibule. 3. Transept or side-chapel in a church. 4. Cloister, colonnade, Galilee,... Read more |
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controlling gene
controlling gene A gene that is involved in turning on or off the transcription of structural genes. Two types of genetic element exist in this process: a regulator and a receptor element. A receptor element is one that can be inserted into a gene, making it a mutant, and can also exit from the gene... Read more |
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