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  2. RateMyProfessors.com - Wikipedia

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    May 1999; 25 years ago. ( 1999-05) RateMyProfessors.com ( RMP) is a review site founded in May 1999 by John Swapceinski, a software engineer from Menlo Park, California, which allows anyone to assign ratings to professors and campuses of American, Canadian, and United Kingdom institutions. [1] The site was originally launched as TeacherRatings ...

  3. International scale of river difficulty - Wikipedia

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    Class III rapid at Canolfan Tryweryn, Wales. The international scale of river difficulty is an American system used to rate the difficulty of navigating a stretch of river, or a single (sometimes whitewater) rapid. [1] The scale was created by the American Whitewater Association to evaluate rivers throughout the world, hence international in ...

  4. RateMyTeachers - Wikipedia

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    20 April 2001; 23 years ago. ( 2001-04-20) [1] RateMyTeachers.com ( RMT) is a review site for rating K-12 and college teachers and courses. According to its website, its purpose is to help answer a single question: "what do I as a student need to know to maximize my chance of success in a given class?" As of April 2010, over eleven million ...

  5. Trail difficulty rating system - Wikipedia

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    A trail difficulty rating system, also known as walking track grading system, walk gradings or trail grades, is a classification system for trails or walking paths based on their relative technical and physical difficulty. [1] A trail difficulty rating system informs visitors about the attributes of walking tracks and helps visitors ...

  6. Grade (climbing) - Wikipedia

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    The American YDS (or 'Yosemite Decimal System') was developed independently by climbers at Tahquitz Peak who adapted the class 5 rating of Sierra Club Class 1–5 system in the 1950s. As a result, the system has a "5" as its prefix which is then followed by a decimal point and a number that starts a 1 and counts up with increasing difficulty (e ...

  7. Shortness of breath - Wikipedia

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    Shortness of breath (SOB), also medically known as dyspnea (in AmE) or dyspnoea (in BrE), is an uncomfortable feeling of not being able to breathe well enough. The American Thoracic Society defines it as "a subjective experience of breathing discomfort that consists of qualitatively distinct sensations that vary in intensity", and recommends evaluating dyspnea by assessing the intensity of its ...

  8. Learning curve - Wikipedia

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    A learning curve is a graphical representation of the relationship between how proficient people are at a task and the amount of experience they have. Proficiency (measured on the vertical axis) usually increases with increased experience (the horizontal axis), that is to say, the more someone, groups, companies or industries perform a task, the better their performance at the task.

  9. Learning disability - Wikipedia

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    Psychiatry, neurology. Learning disability, learning disorder, or learning difficulty (British English) is a condition in the brain that causes difficulties comprehending or processing information and can be caused by several different factors. Given the "difficulty learning in a typical manner", this does not exclude the ability to learn in a ...