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Alternative medicine. Unani or Yunani medicine ( Urdu: طب یونانی tibb yūnānī [1]) is Perso-Arabic traditional medicine as practiced in Muslim culture in South Asia and modern day Central Asia. Unani medicine is pseudoscientific. [2] [3] The Indian Medical Association describes Unani practitioners who claim to practice medicine as quacks.
Tabu search is a metaheuristic algorithm that can be used for solving combinatorial optimization problems (problems where an optimal ordering and selection of options is desired). Current applications of TS span the areas of resource planning, telecommunications, VLSI design, financial analysis, scheduling, space planning, energy distribution ...
Pacu Jalur. Pacu Jalur ( puh-tCHOO-juh-LOOR, also spelt as Pacu Jalua, Pachu Jalugh, or Patjoe Djaloer) is a traditional cultural Minangkabau boat race originated from the Central-Western Sumatran region of Kuantan Singingi (colloquially also known as Kuansing) on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The Pacu Jalur is held annually in the river of ...
Swimlane. A swimlane (as in swimlane diagram) is used in process flow diagrams, or flowcharts, that visually distinguishes job sharing and responsibilities for sub-processes of a business process. Swimlanes may be arranged either horizontally or vertically. Swimlane flowchart. Here, the swimlanes are named Customer, Sales, Contracts, Legal, and ...
Newton's first law expresses the principle of inertia: the natural behavior of a body is to move in a straight line at constant speed. A body's motion preserves the status quo, but external forces can perturb this. The modern understanding of Newton's first law is that no inertial observer is privileged over any other.
Goldman Sachs has asked its team to "coordinate" on events and spending around the Paris Olympics in a bid to stop employees sneaking off to the Games and having the bank pick up the tab.. New ...
Parapolice are law enforcement officers or intelligence agents considered "beyond", "ancillary" or "subsidiary" to the regular police force. The term has been used in criminology to refer to private security with an explicit relationship to public police forces.
Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and written forms, and may also be conveyed through sign languages. Human language is characterized by its cultural and historical diversity, with significant variations observed ...