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  2. Supplier-induced demand - Wikipedia

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    A phenomenon known as "supplier-induced demand" happens when a provider of an item or service stimulates or produces more demand for their offering than would otherwise exist in the market. This may be accomplished in a number of ways, including marketing, price plans, or the swaying of customer preferences.

  3. AJAR (applications software platform) - Wikipedia

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    AJAR started its development life in 2002 and was a revolution of an earlier TTPCom applications framework that was used by many OEMs and ODMs in the industry during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Prior to Motorola, TTPCom licensed AJAR to several key OEMs, ODMs, semi-conductor manufacturers and system integrators. Motorola was a strategic ...

  4. Polypropylene - Wikipedia

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    Polypropylene ( PP ), also known as polypropene, is a thermoplastic polymer used in a wide variety of applications. It is produced via chain-growth polymerization from the monomer propylene . Polypropylene belongs to the group of polyolefins and is partially crystalline and non-polar.

  5. Romain Gary - Wikipedia

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    Romain Gary ( pronounced [ʁɔ.mɛ̃ ga.ʁi]; 21 May [ O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew ( pronounced [kat͡sɛf], and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar ), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names.

  6. Python (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Python is a multi-paradigm programming language. Object-oriented programming and structured programming are fully supported, and many of their features support functional programming and aspect-oriented programming (including metaprogramming [68] and metaobjects ). [69]

  7. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    The World Wide Web functions as an application layer protocol that is run "on top of" (figuratively) the Internet, helping to make it more functional. The advent of the Mosaic web browser helped to make the web much more usable, to include the display of images and moving images ( GIFs ).

  8. Iron - Wikipedia

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    Iron. Iron is a chemical element; it has symbol Fe (from Latin ferrum 'iron') and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core.

  9. Acetic acid - Wikipedia

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    Acetic acid is the second simplest carboxylic acid (after formic acid ). It is an important chemical reagent and industrial chemical across various fields, used primarily in the production of cellulose acetate for photographic film, polyvinyl acetate for wood glue, and synthetic fibres and fabrics.