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| x Bible study |
In Christianity, Bible study is the study of the Bible by ordinary people as a personal religious or spiritual practice. Some denominations may call this devotion or devotional acts; however in other denominations devotion has other meanings. Bible...
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| x Bible education | Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania | ||
| x Geology |
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Society for Sedimentary Geology |
Geology (from Greek: γη, gê, "earth"; and λόγος, logos, "speech" lit. to talk about the earth) is the science and study of the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth. The field of geology encompasses the study of the composition,...
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| x Trade union |
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Industrial Workers of the World |
A trade union (or labor union) is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas, such as working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members ...
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| Trades Union Congress | |||
| World Federation of Trade Unions | |||
| International Trade Union Confederation | |||
| AFL-CIO | |||
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| x Politics |
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Libertarian Party of San Francisco |
Politics is a process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behavior within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic and religious...
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| Libertarian Party of Rhode Island | |||
| Libertarian Party of California | |||
| Libertarian Party of Massachusetts | |||
| Libertarian Party of New Hampshire | |||
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| x Fraternal and service organizations | St. Anthony Hall |
A "fraternal organization" or "fraternity," is a brotherhood, though the term usually connotes a distinct or formal organization. This list is for "general fraternities", please list college fraternities and sororities at List of fraternities and...
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| Alpha Chapter of St. Anthony Hall | |||
| Beta Chapter of St. Anthony Hall | |||
| Gamma Chapter of St. Anthony Hall | |||
| Delta Chapter of St. Anthony Hall | |||
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| x agricultural research | International Rice Research Institute | ||
| x Arts | St. Anthony Trust of Rhode Island | ||
| Global Arts Network | |||
| High Meadows Fund | |||
| Vermont Arts Council | |||
| The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts | |||
| x Medical research |
Medical research (or experimental medicine) is basic research or applied research conducted to aid the body of knowledge in the field of medicine. Medical research can be divided into two general categories; new treatments that are tested in...
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| x Students' union |
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University of Leicester Students' Union |
A students' union, student government, student senate, students' association, guild of students or government of student body is a student organization present in many colleges, universities and has started to appear in some high schools. In higher...
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| National Union of Students of the United Kingdom | |||
| DCU Students' Union | |||
| Student Union of the University of Turku | |||
| RMIT Student Union | |||
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| x Advocacy | Rock the Vote |
Advocacy is the pursuit of influencing outcomes — including public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions — that directly affect people’s current lives. (Cohen, 2001)
Therefore,...
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| x Voter turnout |
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Rock the Vote |
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election. After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s. In general, low turnout may...
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| California Victory 2006 | |||
| Citizen Change | |||
| Declare Yourself | |||
| League of Women Voters | |||
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| x Conservation movement | National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty |
The conservation of forests also known as nature conservation is a political and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including plant and animal species as well as their habitat for the future.
The early conservation movement...
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| Georgian Group | |||
| x Civil rights |
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Southern Poverty Law Center |
Civil and political rights are a class of rights and freedoms that protect individuals from unwarranted government action and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression....
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| Transnational Radical Party | |||
| Alpha Suffrage Club | |||
| American Equal Rights Association | |||
| Association for Civil Rights in Israel | |||
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| x Law |
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Southern Poverty Law Center |
Law is a system of rules, usually enforced through a set of institutions. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a primary social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a...
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| Lex Talionis Fraternitas, Inc. | |||
| Sherpa | |||
| Singapore Academy of Law | |||
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| x The Internet |
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ICANN |
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public,...
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| x Student activism |
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Students for a Democratic Society |
Student activism is work done by students to effect political, environmental, economic, or social change. It has often focused on making changes in schools, such as increasing student influence over curriculum or improving educational funding. In...
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| x Education |
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James Randi Educational Foundation |
Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated...
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| Nanhi Kali | |||
| RAND | |||
| Synergy Learning International Inc | |||
| Vermont Society for the Study of Education | |||
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| x LGBT |
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Transgender Law Center |
LGBT (or GLBT) is an initialism referring collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. In use since the 1990s, the term “LGBT” is an adaptation of the initialism “LGB” which itself started replacing the phrase “gay community”...
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| International Foundation for Gender Education | |||
| Press for Change | |||
| Audre Lorde Project | |||
| GenderPAC | |||
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| x Human rights |
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Amnesty International USA |
Human rights are "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Examples of rights and freedoms which have come to be commonly thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty,...
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| Amnesty International | |||
| Habitat for Humanity International | |||
| Council of Europe | |||
| Transnational Radical Party | |||
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| x Health care |
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National Rehabilitation Hospital |
Health care (often healthcare in American English), is the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, complementary and alternative medicine, pharmaceutical, clinical vimto...
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| High Meadows Fund | |||
| Solar Electric Light Fund | |||
| IEEE Standards Association | |||
| x Television |
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Vermont Community Access Media |
Television (TV) is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic ("black and white") or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set,...
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| ABERT | |||
| AHDS Performing Arts | |||
| ATVSI | |||
| Academy of Television Arts and Sciences | |||
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| x Bird conservation |
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American Bird Conservancy |
Bird conservation is a field in the science of conservation biology related to threatened birds. Humans have had a profound effect on many bird species. Over one hundred species have gone extinct in historical times, although the most dramatic human...
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| National Audubon Society | |||
| Partners in Flight | |||
| American Birding Association | |||
| Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture | |||
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| x Agriculture | Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' Association |
Agriculture is the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of human civilization, with the husbandry of domesticated animals and plants (i.e. crops) creating food surpluses...
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| 4-H | |||
| AOAC International | |||
| Agricultural Development in the American Pacific | |||
| Agricultural Research Service | |||
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| x Forestry |
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U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities |
Forestry is the art and science of managing forests, tree plantations, and related natural resources. The main goal of forestry is to create and implement systems that allow forests to continue a sustainable continuation of environmental supplies...
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| x Scouting |
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World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts |
Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play constructive roles in society.
Scouting began in 1907...
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| World Organization of the Scout Movement | |||
| Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego | |||
| Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbände | |||
| x Democracy |
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Council of Europe |
Democracy is a political system in which government is either carried out by the people governed (direct democracy), or the power to govern is granted by them to elected representatives (representative democracy). The term is derived from the Greek:...
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| African Democracy Forum | |||
| Association of Central and Eastern European Election Officials | |||
| Ballot Access News | |||
| Brennan Center for Justice | |||
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| x European integration |
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Council of Europe |
European integration is the process of political, legal, economic (and in some cases social and cultural) integration of states wholly or partially in Europe. In the present day, European Integration is primarily achieved through the European Union...
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| x Rule of law |
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Council of Europe |
The rule of law, also called supremacy of law, means that the law is above everyone and it applies to everyone. Whether governor or governed, rulers or ruled, no one is above the law, no one is exempted from the law, and no one can grant exemption...
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| x Standards organization | Council of Europe |
A standards organization, standards body, standards development organization or SDO is any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise maintaining standards...
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| x Renewable energy |
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Post Carbon Institute |
Renewable energy is energy generated from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable (naturally replenished). In 2006, about 18% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13%...
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| European Wind Energy Association | |||
| British Wind Energy Association | |||
| European Renewable Energy Council | |||
| American Wind Energy Association | |||
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| x SETI |
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Planetary Society |
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is the collective name for a number of activities people undertake to search for extraterrestrial life. SETI projects use scientific methods to search for electromagnetic transmissions from...
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| x Space exploration |
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Planetary Society |
Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space. Physical exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft. While the observation of objects in space, known as astronomy,...
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| x Astronomy |
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Planetary Society |
Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον), "star" and -nomy from nomos (νόμος), "law") is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere ...
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| x National security |
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RAND |
National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the nation-state through the use of economic, military and political power and the exercise of diplomacy.
Measures taken to ensure national security include:
The relatively new concept...
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| x Health |
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RAND |
At the of the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO), in 1948, Health was defined as being "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity".
This definition invited nations to...
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| x Science | RAND | ||
| x Business |
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RAND |
A business (also called a company, enterprise or firm) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn...
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| x Judaism |
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Jewish Defense League |
Judaism (from the Latin Iudaismus, derived from the Greek Ioudaïsmos, and ultimately from the Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah, "Judah"; in Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת, Yahadut) is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and explored and...
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| x Software Testing | Association for Software Testing |
Software Testing is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test, with respect to the context in which it is intended to operate. Software Testing also provides...
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| x Higher education |
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General Education Fund Inc |
Higher education refers to a level of education that is provided by universities, vocational universities, community colleges, liberal arts colleges, institutes of technology and other collegiate level institutions, such as vocational schools, trade...
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| x Environment | High Meadows Fund | ||
| Vermont Natural Resources Council | |||
| Vermont Earth Institute Inc | |||
| Green For All | |||
| x Fundraising |
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Burlington City Arts Foundation |
Fundraising or fund raising (also development or advancement) is the process of soliciting and gathering contributions as money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental...
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| Southern Poverty Law Center | |||
| x Domestic violence |
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Rutland County Women’s Network and Shelter |
Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, child abuse or intimate partner violence (IPV), can be broadly defined a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating,...
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| x Golf |
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International Golf Federation |
Golf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players (golfers), using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does...
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| x Ufology |
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Aerial Phenomena Research Organization |
Ufology (pronounced /juːˈfɒlədʒiː/) is a neologism coined to describe the collective efforts of those who study unidentified flying object (UFO) reports and associated evidence. While ufology does not represent an academic field of research, UFOs...
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| UFO-Norge | |||
| Na Progu Nieznanego | |||
| UFO-Sweden | |||
| National UFO Reporting Center | |||
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| x Quality Assurance | American Society for Quality |
Quality assurance, or QA for short, refers to planned and systematic production processes that provide confidence in a product's suitability for its intended purpose. Refer to the definition by Merriam-Webster for further information . It is a set...
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| x Wildlife management |
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Ducks Unlimited |
Wildlife management is a general term for the process of keeping wild species at desirable levels which are determined by the wildlife managers. Wildlife management can include game keeping, wildlife conservation and pest control. Wildlife...
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| American Bird Conservancy | |||
| The Norfolk Naturalist Trust | |||
| x Public health |
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Pan American Health Organization |
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals." (1920, C.E.A. Winslow)...
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| American Social Health Association | |||
| Association for Community Health Improvement | |||
| Association of Public Health Laboratories | |||
| Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute | |||
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| x Morgellons |
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Morgellons Research Foundation |
Morgellons (also called Morgellons disease or Morgellons syndrome), is a name given in 2002 by Mary Leitao to a proposed condition referred to by the Centers for Disease Control as Unexplained Dermopathy and characterized by a range of cutaneous ...
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| x Geography |
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U. S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology |
Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία - geographia, lit. "earth describe-write") is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use...
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| International Association for Landscape Ecology | |||
| x Ecology |
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U. S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology |
Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, oikos, "house, household, housekeeping, or living relations" ; -λογία, -logia, "study of") is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the interactions between organisms and the interactions of these organisms with their...
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| International Association for Landscape Ecology | |||
| x Landscape ecology |
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U. S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology |
Landscape ecology is the science of studying and improving the relationship between spatial pattern and ecological processes on a multitude of landscape scales and organizational levels. As a highly interdisciplinary enterprise, landscape ecology...
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| International Association for Landscape Ecology | |||
| x Earth remote sensing |
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International Association for Landscape Ecology |
Earth remote sensing is data collection on the environment, geology, climate, and other characteristics of the Earth by means of sensors positioned in the air or in Earth orbit. Sensors used for this type of data gathering include those covering all...
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| U. S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology | |||
| x Autistic Disorder |
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Autism Speaks |
Autism is a disorder of neural development that is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism involves many parts of the...
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| Autism Network International | |||
| Autism National Committee | |||
| Aspies For Freedom | |||
| Athletes Against Autism | |||
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| x Immigrant Services | American Civic Association | ||
| x Refugee Services | American Civic Association | ||
| x Culture |
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Institut Néerlandais |
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate") is a term that has different meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical...
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| Ismar Elbogen Network for Jewish Cultural History e.V. | |||
| manche(r)art | |||
| x Interest group | AARP |
An interest group (also advocacy group, lobby group, pressure group or special interest group) is an organization that seeks to influence political decisions. This can be done by explaining the benefits of a policy to the relevant politicians, by...
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| Australian Christian Lobby | |||
| x Biomedical research |
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National Association for Biomedical Research |
Biomedical research (or experimental medicine), in general simply known as medical research, is the basic research, applied research, or translational research conducted to aid and support the body of knowledge in the field of medicine. Medical...
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| Foundation for Biomedical Research | |||
| AIDS Research Alliance | |||
| Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute | |||
| Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center | |||
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