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  2. System of units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In the metric system and other recent systems, underlying relationships between quantities, as expressed by formulae of physics such as Newton's laws of motion, is used to select a small number of base quantities for which a unit is defined for each, from which all other units may be derived. Secondary units (multiples and submultiples) are ...

  3. Apollo abort modes - Wikipedia

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    Apollo Launch Escape System diagram. If the rocket failed in the last five minutes before launch, the CM and the launch escape system (LES, see figure) would separate from the remainder of the rocket below with the LES propelling itself and the CM beneath it upward and eastward to the sea using a small solid-fueled motor (the launch escape motor) at the top of the tower on the launch escape ...

  4. Nikolai Bukharin - Wikipedia

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    Bukharin pressed his views throughout 1928 in meetings of the Politburo and at the Communist Party Congress, insisting that enforced grain requisition would be counterproductive, as War Communism had been a decade earlier. [20]

  5. Bridge Base Online - Wikipedia

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    These tournaments award online masterpoints. The colorless masterpoints awarded for online play can be combined with other types of ACBL masterpoints, which helps players achieve higher ACBL ranks. During the COVID-19 pandemic, BBO partnered with ACBL and The Common Game to initiate an online platform named ACBL Virtual Clubs. This grew ...

  6. Immune system - Wikipedia

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    The immune system is a network of biological systems that protects an organism from diseases. It detects and responds to a wide variety of pathogens , from viruses to parasitic worms , as well as cancer cells and objects such as wood splinters , distinguishing them from the organism's own healthy tissue .

  7. Open Journal Systems - Wikipedia

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    Open Journal Systems, also known as OJS, is an open source and free software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals, created by the Public Knowledge Project, and released under the GNU General Public License.

  8. Effluent decontamination system - Wikipedia

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    An effluent decontamination system (EDS) is a device, or suite of devices, designed to decontaminate or sterilise biologically active or biohazardous materials in fluid and liquid waste material.

  9. Electrodynamic suspension - Wikipedia

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    Jumping rings lift when an AC current energises a coil and the electrodynamic forces pushes the rings upwards against gravity. Electrodynamic suspension (EDS) is a form of magnetic levitation in which there are conductors which are exposed to time-varying magnetic fields.