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  • 71earthquake — /errth kwayk /, n. 1. a series of vibrations induced in the earth s crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating. 2. something that is severely disruptive; upheaval. [1300 50; ME erthequake …

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  • 72AGRICULTURAL LAND-MANAGEMENT METHODS AND IMPLEMENTS IN ANCIENT EREẒ ISRAEL — Ereẓ Israel is a small country with a topographically fragmented territory, each geographical region having a distinctive character of its own. These regions include: the coastal plain, the lowlands, the hilly country, the inland valleys, the… …

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  • 73Volterra series — The Volterra series and Volterra theorem was developed in 1887 by Vito Volterra. It is a model for non linear behavior, similar to the Taylor series. It differs from the Taylor series in its ability to capture memory effects. The Taylor series… …

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  • 74Consumer price index — CPI redirects here. For other uses, see CPI (disambiguation). A consumer price index (CPI) measures changes in the price level of consumer goods and services purchased by households. The CPI, in the United States is defined by the Bureau of Labor …

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  • 75Construction bidding — is the process of submitting a proposal (tender) to undertake, or manage the undertaking of a construction project. The process starts with a construction estimate from blueprints and take offs. The tender is treated as an offer to do the work… …

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  • 76Magnetopause — Artistic rendition of the Earth s magnetopause. The magnetopause is where the pressure from the solar wind and the planet s magnetic field are equal. The position of the Sun would be far to the left in this image The magnetopause is the abrupt… …

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  • 77Power law — A power law is any polynomial relationship that exhibits the property of scale invariance. The most common power laws relate two variables and have the form:f(x) = ax^k! +o(x^k),where a and k are constants, and o(x^k) is of x. Here, k is… …

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  • 78Primary production — For other uses, see Primary production (economics). Global oceanic and terrestrial photoautotroph abundance, from September 1997 to August 2000. As an estimate of autotroph biomass, it is only a rough indicator of primary production potential,… …

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  • 79Confidence interval — This article is about the confidence interval. For Confidence distribution, see Confidence Distribution. In statistics, a confidence interval (CI) is a particular kind of interval estimate of a population parameter and is used to indicate the… …

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  • 80Crop factor — The outer, red box displays what a 24×36 mm sensor would see, the inner, blue box displays what a 15×23 mm sensor would see. (The actual image circle of most lenses designed for 35 mm SLR format would extend further beyond the red box than shown… …

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