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| x Bible study |
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Wycliffe Bible Translators |
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 | ||
| Wycliffe Bible Translators | |||
| x Geology |
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Society for Sedimentary Geology |
Geology (from the Greek γῆ, gê, "earth" and λόγος, logos, "study") is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as...
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| Geological Survey of India | |||
| x Trade union |
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Industrial Workers of the World |
A trade union (British English), labour union (Canadian English) or labor union (American English) is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as higher pay, increasing the number employees an employer hires,...
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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 (from Greek politikos "of, for, or relating to citizens") as a term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields,...
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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. Please list college fraternities and sororities at List of social fraternities and sororities.
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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 | ||
| American Meat Institute Foundation | |||
| x Arts | St. Anthony Trust of Rhode Island | ||
| Global Arts Network | |||
| High Meadows Fund | |||
| Vermont Arts Council | |||
| Pyramid-Atlantic Art Center | |||
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| x Medical research | National Institute on Drug Abuse |
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 and universities, and has started appearing in some high schools. In...
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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 a political process by an individual or a large group which normally aims to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral,...
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| Green For All | |||
| Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights | |||
| 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 (eligible voters can change in every country, and should not be confused with the total adult population. For example some countries discriminate based on sex, race,...
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| California Victory 2006 | |||
| Citizen Change | |||
| Declare Yourself | |||
| League of Women Voters | |||
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| x Conservation movement |
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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty |
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal, fungus and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.
The early...
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| Georgian Group | |||
| National Association for AONBs | |||
| x Civil and political rights |
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Southern Poverty Law Center |
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without...
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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 and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. Laws are made by governments, and nowadays more specifically, by parliaments. It shapes politics, economics and society in...
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| RAND | |||
| 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 standard Internet protocol suite (often called TCP/IP, although not all applications use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that...
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| givezooks! | |||
| Web3D Consortium | |||
| Exfront Technologies | |||
| Mutual Advantage Ltd | |||
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| x Student activism |
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Students for a Democratic Society |
Student activism is work done by students to affect 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, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks,...
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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 is an initialism that collectively refers to the "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" community. 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 commonly understood as "inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal (applicable everywhere) and egalitarian (the...
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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 (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing,...
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| High Meadows Fund | |||
| Solar Electric Light Fund | |||
| IEEE Standards Association | |||
| The Smile Train | |||
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| x Television |
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Vermont Community Access Media |
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome (black-and-white) or colored, with or without accompanying 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 |
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Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' Association |
Agriculture (also called farming or husbandry) is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human...
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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 interdisciplinary profession embracing the science, art, and craft of creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit....
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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, 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 an egalitarian form of government in which all the citizens of a nation together determine public policy, the laws and the actions of their state, requiring that all citizens (meeting certain qualifications) have an equal opportunity to...
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| African Democracy Forum | |||
| Association of Central and Eastern European Election Officials | |||
| Brennan Center for Justice | |||
| Carter Center | |||
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| x European integration |
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Council of Europe |
European integration is the process of industrial, political, legal, economic (and in some cases social and cultural) integration of states wholly or partially in Europe. European integration has primarily come about through the European Union and...
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| x Rule of law |
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Council of Europe |
The rule of law is a legal maxim whereby governmental decisions are made by applying known legal principles. Such a government can be called a nomocracy, from the Greek language nomos (law) and kratos (power or rule). The phrase can be traced back...
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| x Renewable energy |
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Post Carbon Institute |
Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable (naturally replenished). About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming...
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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 |
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is the collective name for a number of activities people undertake to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life. Some of the most well known projects are run by Harvard University, the...
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| x Space exploration |
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Planetary Society |
Space exploration is the discovery and exploration of outer space by means of space technology. Physical exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft.
While the observation of objects in space, known as...
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| Pioneer Astronautics | |||
| x Astronomy |
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Planetary Society |
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, nebulae, star clusters and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth (such as cosmic background radiation)....
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| x National security |
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RAND |
National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II. Initially...
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| AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe | |||
| British Army | |||
| National Defense College of the Philippines | |||
| x Health |
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RAND |
Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain (as in “good health” or “healthy”). The...
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| Pan American Health Organization | |||
| Program for Appropriate Technology in Health | |||
| Ashta no Kai | |||
| Premier Concepts Ltd | |||
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| x Science | RAND | ||
| x Business |
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RAND |
A business (also known as enterprise or firm) is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn...
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| SACCA | |||
| New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development | |||
| IMSM | |||
| Edistorm | |||
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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, the distinctive characteristics of the Judean ethnos) is the religion, philosophy, and way of...
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| x Software Testing | Association for Software Testing |
Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to...
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| American Society for Quality | |||
| TRICENTIS Technology & Consulting | |||
| x Higher education |
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General Education Fund Inc |
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology. Higher education also includes certain collegiate-level...
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| Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities | |||
| University of California, Berkeley | |||
| Stevenson University | |||
| University of Catania | |||
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| x Environment | High Meadows Fund | ||
| Vermont Natural Resources Council | |||
| Vermont Earth Institute Inc | |||
| Green For All | |||
| American Farmland Trust | |||
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| x Fundraising |
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Burlington City Arts Foundation |
Fundraising or fund raising (also development) is the process of soliciting and gathering voluntary contributions as money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies ...
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| Southern Poverty Law Center | |||
| Susan G. Komen for the Cure | |||
| x Domestic violence |
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Rutland County Women’s Network and Shelter |
Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence (IPV), is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage...
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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 (or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.
It is one of the few ball games that does not require a...
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| x Ufology |
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Aerial Phenomena Research Organization |
Ufology ( /juːˈfɒlədʒiː/) is the title used for the array of subject matter and activities associated with an interest in unidentified flying objects (UFOs). UFOs have been subject to various investigations over the years by governments, independent...
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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 (QA) refers to the planned and systematic activities implemented in a quality system so that quality requirements for a product or service will be fulfilled. It is the systematic measurement, comparison with a standard, monitoring...
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| IMSM | |||
| x Wildlife management |
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Ducks Unlimited |
Wildlife management attempts to balance the needs of wildlife with the needs of people using the best available science. Wildlife management can include game keeping, wildlife conservation and pest control. Wildlife management has become an...
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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 that was given in 2002 by stay-at-home-mom Mary Leitao to a proposed condition characterized by a range of cutaneous (skin) symptoms including crawling, biting, and...
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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 science that studies the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of the Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
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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, "house"; -λογία, "study of") is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition,...
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| International Association for Landscape Ecology | |||
| Unione degli Studenti | |||
| 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 relationships between ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems. This is done within a variety of landscape scales, development spatial patterns, and organizational...
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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 Autism |
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Autism Speaks |
Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. The diagnostic criteria require that symptoms become apparent before a child is three years old....
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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 | ||
| United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | |||
| x Culture |
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Institut Néerlandais |
When Culture (Latin: cultura, lit. "cultivation") first began to take its current usage by Europeans in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century (having had earlier antecedents elsewhere), it connoted a process of cultivation or improvement, as in...
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| Ismar Elbogen Network for Jewish Cultural History e.V. | |||
| manche(r)art | |||
| Farafina Trust | |||
| x Interest group | AARP |
Advocacy groups (also pressure groups, lobby groups and some interest groups and special interest groups) use various forms of advocacy to influence public opinion and/or policy; they have played and continue to play an important part in the...
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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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| x LGBT culture | Frameline |
LGBT culture is a culture shared by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people. It is sometimes also referred to as Queer culture. The term gay culture, though not synonymous, is sometimes also used though this may also apply...
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