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  2. Language development - Wikipedia

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    Language development in humans is a process which starts early in life. Infants start without knowing a language, yet by 10 months, babies can distinguish speech sounds and engage in babbling. Some research has shown that the earliest learning begins in utero when the fetus starts to recognize the sounds and speech patterns of its mother's ...

  3. Half-life - Wikipedia

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    Half-life (symbol t½) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value. The term is commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay or how long stable atoms survive. The term is also used more generally to characterize any type of exponential (or, rarely ...

  4. Fasciola hepatica - Wikipedia

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    Fasciola hepatica, also known as the common liver fluke or sheep liver fluke, is a parasitic trematode (fluke or flatworm, a type of helminth) of the class Trematoda, phylum Platyhelminthes. It infects the livers of various mammals, including humans, and is transmitted by sheep and cattle to humans all over the world.

  5. Geographic information science - Wikipedia

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    Geographic Information Science (GIScience) is the basic research field that seeks to redefine geographic concepts and their use in the context of geographic information systems. GIScience also examines the impacts of GIS on individuals and society, and the influences of society on GIS. GIScience re-examines some of the most fundamental themes ...

  6. Iterative and incremental development - Wikipedia

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    Overview A simplified version of a typical iteration cycle in agile project management. The basic idea behind this method is to develop a system through repeated cycles (iterative) and in smaller portions at a time (incremental), allowing software developers to take advantage of what was learned during development of earlier parts or versions of the system.

  7. ISO 26262 - Wikipedia

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    Item is used to refer to a specific system (or combination of systems) to which the ISO 26262 Safety Life Cycle is applied, that implements a function (or part of a function) at the vehicle level. That is, the item is the highest identified object in the process and is thereby the starting point for product-specific safety development under ...

  8. Formal methods - Wikipedia

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    Formal development is the use of formal methods as an integrated part of a tool-supported system development process. Once a formal specification has been produced, the specification may be used as a guide while the concrete system is developed during the design process (i.e., realized typically in software , but also potentially in hardware ).

  9. Chaos theory - Wikipedia

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    The main catalyst for the development of chaos theory was the electronic computer. Much of the mathematics of chaos theory involves the repeated iteration of simple mathematical formulas, which would be impractical to do by hand. Electronic computers made these repeated calculations practical, while figures and images made it possible to ...