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  • 1improve — 1 Improve, better, help, ameliorate are comparable when denoting to mend or correct in part or in some de gree. Improve, the general term, and better, more vigorous and homely, apply both to objects and to states or conditions that are not of… …

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  • 2Involuntary commitment — For involuntary treatment in non hospital settings, see involuntary treatment. Involuntary commitment or civil commitment is a legal process through which an individual with symptoms of severe mental illness is court ordered into treatment in a… …

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  • 3Factory farming — A commercial chicken house raising broiler pullets for meat …

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  • 4California Proposition 2 (2008) — Proposition 2, the proposed Standards for Confining Farm Animals initiative statute, is a California ballot proposition in that state s general election on November 42008. The proposition would add a chapter to Division 20 of the California… …

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  • 5Antipsychiatry movement —    Early in the 1960s, as part of the general intellectual tumult of the time, a protest movement arose against psychiatry. Members of the movement were by no means all in agreement about doctrine; some argued that there was no such thing as… …

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  • 6Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union — Soviet Union …

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  • 7animal learning — ▪ zoology Introduction       the alternation of behaviour as a result of individual experience. When an organism can perceive and change its behaviour, it is said to learn.       That animals can learn seems to go without saying. The cat that… …

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  • 8O'Connor v. Donaldson — O Connor v. Kenneth Donaldson Supreme Court of the United States Argued January 15, 1975 Decided June …

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  • 9Red Skelton — Red Skelton, 1960. Birth name Richard Bernard Skelton Born July 18, 1913(1913 07 18) …

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  • 10DISC1 — Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 Identifiers Symbols DISC1; C1orf136; FLJ13381; FLJ21640; FLJ25311; FLJ41105; KIAA0457; SCZD9 External IDs …

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