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  2. Childhood nudity - Wikipedia

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    The trend for privacy is being extended to public schools, colleges and community facilities replacing "gang showers" and open locker rooms with individual stalls and changing rooms. A 2014 study of schools in England found that 53% of boys and 67.5% of girls did not shower after physical education (PE) classes.

  3. Menstrual synchrony - Wikipedia

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    Menstrual synchrony, also called the McClintock effect, [1] or the Wellesley effect, [2] is a contested process whereby women who begin living together in close proximity would experience their menstrual cycle onsets (the onset of menstruation or menses) becoming more synchronized together in time than when previously living apart.

  4. Truist Financial - Wikipedia

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    Truist Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. [7] The company was formed in December 2019 as the result of the merger of BB&T (Branch Banking and Trust Company) and SunTrust Banks.

  5. Cell synchronization - Wikipedia

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    Cell synchronization is a process by which cells in a culture at different stages of the cell cycle are brought to the same phase. Cell synchrony is a vital process in the study of cells progressing through the cell cycle as it allows population-wide data to be collected rather than relying solely on single-cell experiments.

  6. Neural oscillation - Wikipedia

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    Richard Caton discovered electrical activity in the cerebral hemispheres of rabbits and monkeys and presented his findings in 1875. [4] Adolf Beck published in 1890 his observations of spontaneous electrical activity of the brain of rabbits and dogs that included rhythmic oscillations altered by light, detected with electrodes directly placed on the surface of the brain. [5]

  7. Manual fire alarm activation - Wikipedia

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    Manual fire alarm activation requires human intervention, as distinct from automatic fire alarm activation such as that provided through the use of heat detectors and smoke detectors. It is, however, possible for call points/pull stations to be used in conjunction with automatic detection as part of the overall fire detection and alarm system .

  8. Threshold potential - Wikipedia

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    Threshold tracking allows for the strength of a test stimulus to be adjusted by a computer in order to activate a defined fraction of the maximal nerve or muscle potential. A threshold tracking experiment consists of a 1-ms stimulus being applied to a nerve in regular intervals. [ 10 ]

  9. Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin

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    Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin is a 1991 tribute album consisting of interpretations of sixteen songs written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The title refers to a song on John's album 21 at 33 , "Two Rooms at the End of the World", and to the duo's unusual collaborative style; it is also the title of a 1991 ...