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  2. Gender Development Index - Wikipedia

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    The Gender Development Index ( GDI) is an index designed to measure gender equality . GDI, together with the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), was introduced in 1995 in the Human Development Report written by the United Nations Development Program. These measurements aimed to add a gender-sensitive dimension to the Human Development Index (HDI).

  3. A Man in Full (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    Release. May 2, 2024. ( 2024-05-02) A Man in Full is an American streaming television limited series starring Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane, created and written by David E. Kelley, and directed by Regina King and Thomas Schlamme. It is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe. The series consists of six episodes, and premiered on ...

  4. Murder of Seth Rich - Wikipedia

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    On August 1, 2017, Rod Wheeler, the private investigator hired by Butowsky who was the first to claim links between Seth Rich's murder and the DNC hack on Fox, but who later appeared to retract his claims, filed a lawsuit (Case 1:17-cv-05807 Southern District of New York) in which 21st Century Fox, the Fox News Channel, Fox News reporter Malia ...

  5. Vought V-173 - Wikipedia

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    15 March 1947. Number built. 1. Developed into. Vought XF5U. The Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake" was an American experimental test aircraft built as part of the Vought XF5U program during World War II . Both the V-173 and the XF5U featured an unorthodox "all-wing" design consisting of a flat, somewhat disk-shaped body (like a pancake flying ...

  6. B-theory of time - Wikipedia

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    The B-theory of time, also called the "tenseless theory of time", is one of two positions regarding the temporal ordering of events in the philosophy of time.B-theorists argue that the flow of time is only a subjective illusion of human consciousness, that the past, present, and future are equally real, and that time is tenseless: temporal becoming is not an objective feature of reality.

  7. Woodward–Hoffmann rules - Wikipedia

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    Thermolysis converts 1 to (E,E) geometric isomer 2, but 3 to (E,Z) isomer 4.. The Woodward–Hoffmann rules (or the pericyclic selection rules) are a set of rules devised by Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann to rationalize or predict certain aspects of the stereochemistry and activation energy of pericyclic reactions, an important class of reactions in organic chemistry.

  8. Normalization (people with disabilities) - Wikipedia

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    Disability. "The normalization principle means making available to all people with disabilities patterns of life and conditions of everyday living which are as close as possible to the regular circumstances and ways of life or society." [1] Normalization is a rigorous theory of human services that can be applied to disability services. [2]

  9. Magic circle (games) - Wikipedia

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    In games and digital media, the " magic circle " is the space in which the normal rules and reality of the world are suspended and replaced by the artificial reality of a game world. [1] As noted by Edward Castronova in Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games, the boundary delineating this space "can be considered a shield of ...