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111Altruism — Selflessness redirects here. For the 1965 jazz album, see Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things. Giving alms to the poor is often considered an altruistic action in many cultures and religions. Altruism …
112Huns — The Huns were an early confederation of Central Asian equestrian nomads or semi nomads, [Walter Pohl has remarked early medieval peoples were far less homogeneous than often thought. They themselves shared the fundamental belief to be of common… …
113World War II — WWII redirects here. For other uses, see WWII (disambiguation) …
114Optimal control — theory, an extension of the calculus of variations, is a mathematical optimization method for deriving control policies. The method is largely due to the work of Lev Pontryagin and his collaborators in the Soviet Union[1] and Richard Bellman in… …
115Socially necessary labour time — in Marx s critique of political economy is what regulates the exchange value of commodities in trade and consequently guides producers in their attempt to economise on labour. Unlike individual labour hours in the classical labour theory of value …
116Brazilian Portuguese — (Portuguese: português brasileiro or português do Brasil; pt BR) is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by most of the 190 million inhabitants[1] of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States,… …
117Diffusion of innovations — The diffusion of innovations according to Rogers. With successive groups of consumers adopting the new technology (shown in blue), its market share (yellow) will eventually reach the saturation level. In mathematics the S curve is known as the… …
118Tobacco advertising — Part of a series on Tobacco …
119Methods of detecting extrasolar planets — Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star. In addition to the intrinsic difficulty of detecting such a faint light source, the light from the parent star causes a glare that washes it out. For those reasons, only a …
120Illusory superiority — is a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate their positive qualities and abilities and to underestimate their negative qualities, relative to others. This is evident in a variety of areas including intelligence, performance on tasks or …
