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  2. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several ways, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training. [1] [2] [3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make life-determining decisions through the different ...

  3. Columbian exchange - Wikipedia

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    The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere, in the late 15th and following centuries.

  4. Metabolism - Wikipedia

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    Metabolism ( / məˈtæbəlɪzəm /, from Greek: μεταβολήmetabolē, "change") is the set of life -sustaining chemical reactions in organisms. The three main functions of metabolism are: the conversion of the energy in food to energy available to run cellular processes; the conversion of food to building blocks of proteins, lipids ...

  5. Leader–member exchange theory - Wikipedia

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    The leader–member exchange ( LMX) theory is a relationship-based approach to leadership that focuses on the two-way ( dyadic) relationship between leaders and followers. [1] The latest version (2016) of leader–member exchange theory of leadership development explains the growth of vertical dyadic workplace influence and team performance in ...

  6. Subtropics - Wikipedia

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    Subtropics. The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics. Geographically part of the temperate zones of both hemispheres, they cover the middle latitudes from 23°26′10.0″ (or 23.43612°) to approximately 35° north and south. The horse latitudes lie within this range.

  7. Minoan eruption - Wikipedia

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    The Minoan eruption is an important marker horizon for the Bronze Age chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean realm. It provides a fixed point for aligning the entire chronology of the second millennium BCE in the Aegean, as evidence of the eruption is found throughout the region.

  8. Provinces of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    On the first tier, Vietnam is divided into fifty-eight provinces ( tỉnh) and five municipalities under the command of the central government ( Vietnamese: thành phố trực thuộc trung ương ). Municipalities are the highest-ranked cities in Vietnam. [1] Municipalities are centrally-controlled cities and have special status equal to the provinces.

  9. Digital object identifier - Wikipedia

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    A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [1] DOIs are an implementation of the Handle System; [2] [3] they also fit within the URI system ( Uniform Resource Identifier ). They are widely used to identify academic, professional, and government ...