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  2. Self-organized criticality - Wikipedia

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    Self-organized criticality (SOC) is a property of dynamical systems that have a critical point as an attractor.Their macroscopic behavior thus displays the spatial or temporal scale-invariance characteristic of the critical point of a phase transition, but without the need to tune control parameters to a precise value, because the system, effectively, tunes itself as it evolves towards ...

  3. Self-determination - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Self-determination [1] refers to a people 's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage. [2] [3] Self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law, binding, as such, on the United Nations as an authoritative interpretation of ...

  4. Self-stabilization - Wikipedia

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    Self-stabilization. Self-stabilization is a concept of fault-tolerance in distributed systems. Given any initial state, a self-stabilizing distributed system will end up in a correct state in a finite number of execution steps. At first glance, the guarantee of self stabilization may seem less promising than that of the more traditional fault ...

  5. Territories of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Definition. Organized territories are lands under federal sovereignty (but not part of any state or the federal district) which were given a measure of self-governance by Congress through an organic act subject to the Congress's plenary powers under the territorial clause of the Constitution's Article Four, section 3.

  6. Self-governance - Wikipedia

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    Self-governance, self-government, or self-rule is the ability of a person or group to exercise all necessary functions of regulation without intervention from an external authority. [2] [3] [4] It may refer to personal conduct or to any form of institution , such as family units , social groups , affinity groups , legal bodies , industry bodies ...

  7. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    A "face book" is a student directory featuring photos and personal information. [16] In 2003, Harvard had only a paper version [18] along with private online directories. [15] [19] Zuckerberg told The Harvard Crimson, "Everyone's been talking a lot about a universal face book within Harvard. ...

  8. States and territories of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The states and territories are the second level of government of Australia. The states are administrative divisions that are self-governing polities that are partly sovereign, having ceded some sovereign rights to the federal government. [2] They have their own constitutions, legislatures, executive governments, judiciaries and law enforcement ...

  9. Texas State Highway 35 - Wikipedia

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    Business State Highway 35-M (Bus. SH 35-M), formerly Loop 81, was a 1.387-mile-long (2.232 km) business loop that ran through Aransas Pass. The route was created in 1939 when SH 35 was rerouted in the city. The route was redesignated as Business SH 35-M on June 21, 1990, but was redesignated as Loop 90 on April 27, 1995.