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  2. Schrödinger's cat - Wikipedia

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    Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source connected to a Geiger counter are placed in a sealed box. As illustrated, the quantum description uses a superposition of an alive cat and one that has died. In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, of quantum ...

  3. Diversity, equity, and inclusion - Wikipedia

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    Diversity, equity, and inclusion ( DEI) are organizational frameworks which seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination on the basis of identity or disability. [1] These three notions ( diversity, equity, and inclusion ...

  4. Military strategy - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Military strategy is a set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired strategic goals. [1] Derived from the Greek word strategos, the term strategy, when first used during the 18th century, [2] was seen in its narrow sense as the "art of the general ", [3] or "the art of arrangement" of troops.

  5. Film theory - Wikipedia

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    Film theory. Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; [1] and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film 's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and ...

  6. Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. [3] While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made ...

  7. Strategy pattern - Wikipedia

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    Strategy pattern. In computer programming, the strategy pattern (also known as the policy pattern) is a behavioral software design pattern that enables selecting an algorithm at runtime. Instead of implementing a single algorithm directly, code receives runtime instructions as to which in a family of algorithms to use. [1]

  8. Evangelicalism - Wikipedia

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    Evangelicalism (/ ˌ iː v æ n ˈ dʒ ɛ l ɪ k əl ɪ z əm, ˌ ɛ v æ n-,-ə n-/), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as ...

  9. Communication - Wikipedia

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    Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not only transmits meaning but also creates it.