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wide area network
Wide Area Networks (WANs) A wide area network (WAN) is a data network, usually used for connecting computers, that spans a wide geographical area. WANs can be used to connect cities, states, or even countries. WANs are often used by larger corporations or organizations to facilitate the exchange of... Read more |
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United States. National Park Service
National Park Service The U.S. Congress created the National Park Service (NPS) in 1916 as a bureau of the Department of the Interior. Its purpose was to coordinate the administration for an increasing number of national parks. NPS objectives have evolved to include (1)... Read more |
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Famine of
FAMINE OF 1932–1933 The famine began in the winter of 1931 and 1932, peaked between the fall of 1932 and the summer of 1933, and subsided with the 1933 harvest. Mortality was highest in rural areas of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, and the central and southern Volga Basin, but increased in... Read more |
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Language disorders
Language disorders Definition A language disorder is a deficit or problem with any function of language and communication. Description Speech and language disorders are extremely common. They can range from slow acquisition of language to sound substitution or stuttering to the inability to... Read more |
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Ogden
Ogden city (1990 pop. 63,909), seat of Weber co., N Utah, at the confluence of the Ogden and Weber rivers; inc. 1851. Aerospace industries and Hill Air Force Base are the major employers. There is weapons design and the manufacture of paper, metal, carbon fiber, and computer products;... Read more |
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immunity
immunity ability of an organism to resist disease by identifying and destroying foreign substances or organisms. Although all animals have some immune capabilities, little is known about nonmammalian immunity. Mammals are protected by a variety of preventive mechanisms, some of them nonspecific... Read more |
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Military communications satellites
Military Customers The military space program is a significant but largely unseen aspect of space operations. Nearly a dozen countries have some kind of military space program, but the U.S. program dwarfs the efforts of all these other countries combined. Military space... Read more |
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minimal area
minimal area The smallest area that can contain the species representative of a particular plant community. When the number of species recorded in increasingly larger sample units is plotted graphically (to give a species-area curve), the minimal area is the point at which the curve becomes... Read more |
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age-and-area hypothesis
age-and-area hypothesis J. C. Willis suggested in 1922 that, all other things being equal, the area occupied by a taxon is directly proportional to the age of that taxon. Thus in a polytypic genus, the species with the smallest area of distribution would be the youngest in the genus. However,... Read more |
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Culture Area
Culture AreaBIBLIOGRAPHYCulture areas are geographical territories in which characteristic culture patterns are recognizable through repeated associations of specific traits and, usually, through one or more modes of subsistence that are related to the particular environment. As one formulation... Read more |
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UNEMPLOYMENT RATES DROP IN ALL METRO AREAS IN STATE
...adjusted unemployment rates for the state and all metropolitan statistical areas improved...adjusted unemployment rate went...percent. The unemployment rate is developed...July and an increase of ... |
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UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DROPS IN ALL METRO AREAS IN STATE
...seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for the state and in all metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) decreased...seasonally adjusted unemployment rate went down...percent. The unemployment rate is ... |
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UNEMPLOYMENT RATES FELL IN ALL 12 METRO AREAS OF STATE FOR FOURTH TIME THIS YEAR
...12 of the metro areas in Illinois...The largest unemployment rate declines...Joliet area reported its lowest unemployment rate for...rate fell in all 12 metro areas. Eight ... |
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METRO VALDOSTA'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE CLIMBS TO 5.8 PERCENT IN AUGUST
...unemployment rate in metro Valdosta...2007. The increase is consistent...increase in unemployment throughout the state. Georgia's unemployment rate for...addresses of all career centers. ... |
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METRO ALBANY'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE CLIMBS TO 6.7 PERCENT IN AUGUST
...unemployment rate in metro Albany rose...2007. The increase is consistent...increase in unemployment throughout the state. Georgia's unemployment rate for...addresses of all career centers. ... |
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UNEMPLOYMENT RATES INCREASE IN METRO AREAS.(BUSINESS)
...Press The unemployment rates in all 12 of Wisconsin...metropolitan areas rose in June, the state Department...A sharp increase in job seekers fueled the increases, the agency...the lowest unemployment rate ... |
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Unemployment rises in almost half of metro areas
...same in most metro areas in October...September, unemployment had improved...the U.S. unemployment rate, which...The metro unemployment data isn...month. All 372 areas reported ... |
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METRO DALTON'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE HITS 12.0 PERCENT
...today that the unemployment rate in the metro Dalton area rose to a...Meanwhile, the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose...standardizing unemployment rates among all states. ... |
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METRO AUGUSTA'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE HITS 8.7 PERCENT
...that the unemployment rate in the metro Augusta area rose to a...Meanwhile, the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose...standardizing unemployment rates among all states. The ... |
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METRO VALDOSTA'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE HITS 7.9 PERCENT
...that the unemployment rate in the metro Valdosta area rose to a...Meanwhile, the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose...standardizing unemployment rates among all states. The ... |
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