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11Group psychological abuse — refers to groups where methods of psychological abuse are frequently or systematically used on their members. Such abuse would be practices that treat the members as objects one is free to manipulate instead of respecting their autonomy, human… …
12Group of Eleven — (G11) is a forum, constituted by mostly developing countries aimed at easing their debt burden ( See also: government debt ), narrowing the income gap with rich countries and lifting millions of people out of poverty.HistoryKing Abdullah of… …
13Population Services International — (PSI):PSI is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that harnesses the vitality of the private sector to address the health problems of low income andvulnerable populations in more than 60 developing countries. With programs in… …
14population — [päp΄yə lā′shən] n. [LL populatio] 1. a) all the people in a country, region, etc. b) the number of these c) a (specified) part of the people in a given area [the Japanese population of Hawaii] 2. a populating or being populated …
15population — ► NOUN 1) all the inhabitants of a place. 2) a particular group within this. 3) the action of populating an area. 4) Biology a community of interbreeding organisms …
16population — Group of individuals of a species occupying a particular area, separate and distinct from other such groups …
17population — populational, adj. populationless, adj. /pop yeuh lay sheuhn/, n. 1. the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area. 2. the body of inhabitants of a place: The population of the city opposes the addition of… …
18Group selection — In evolutionary biology, group selection refers to the idea that alleles can become fixed or spread in a population because of the benefits they bestow on groups, regardless of the alleles effect on the fitness of individuals within that group.… …
19Population inversion — In physics, specifically statistical mechanics, a population inversion occurs when a system (such as a group of atoms or molecules) exists in state with more members in an excited state than in lower energy states. The concept is of fundamental… …
20Population groups in biomedicine — Biomedical researchers subdivide populations into groups with the goal of improving the prevention and treatment of diseases. Many studies have found that disease susceptibility and environmental responses vary among U.S. ethnicities, among New… …
