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  2. Pareto principle - Wikipedia

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    The Pareto principle may apply to fundraising, i.e. 20% of the donors contributing towards 80% of the total. The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity [1] [2]) states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few").

  3. Principal ideal - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, specifically ring theory, a principal ideal is an ideal in a ring that is generated by a single element of through multiplication by every element of . The term also has another, similar meaning in order theory, where it refers to an (order) ideal in a poset generated by a single element , which is to say the set of all elements less than or equal to in .

  4. Bernoulli's principle - Wikipedia

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    Bernoulli's principle is a key concept in fluid dynamics that relates pressure, speed and height. Bernoulli's principle states that an increase in the speed of a parcel of fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in either the pressure or the height above a datum. [1]:

  5. Cabinet of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Cabinet of the United States is the principal official advisory body to the president of the United States. The Cabinet generally meets with the president in a room adjacent to the Oval Office in the West Wing of the White House. The president chairs the meetings but is not formally a member of the Cabinet.

  6. The Guest (2014 American film) - Wikipedia

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    Principal photography took place in various locations including Moriarty, Edgewood and Estancia, and continued until the end of August 2013. [13] Monroe described the filming process as "light-hearted [...] There's a lot of comedy in The Guest, so it was a bit more fun". [14]

  7. Principal–agent problem - Wikipedia

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    The principal–agent problem typically arises where the two parties have different interests and asymmetric information (the agent having more information), such that the principal cannot directly ensure that the agent is always acting in the principal's best interest, particularly when activities that are useful to the principal are costly to ...

  8. Square root - Wikipedia

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    Notation for the (principal) square root of x. For example, √ 25 = 5, since 25 = 5 ⋅ 5, or 5 2 (5 squared). In mathematics, a square root of a number x is a number y such that =; in other words, a number y whose square (the result of multiplying the number by itself, or ) is x. [1]

  9. The Breakfast Club - Wikipedia

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    The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American indie [4] [5] teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes.It stars Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy.