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  2. Pan-pan - Wikipedia

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    The radiotelephony message PAN-PAN is the international standard urgency signal that someone aboard a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle uses to declare that they need help and that the situation is urgent, [1] [2] [3] but for the time being, does not pose an immediate danger to anyone's life or to the vessel itself. [4]

  3. Bank effect - Wikipedia

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    The asymmetric flow around a ship induced by the vicinity of banks causes pressure differences (Bernoulli's principle) between port and starboard sides.As a result, a lateral force will act on the ship, mostly directed towards the closest bank, as well as a yawing moment pushing her bow towards the centre of the waterway.

  4. Message precedence - Wikipedia

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    Message precedence is an indicator attached to a message indicating its level of urgency, and used in the exchange of radiograms in radiotelegraph and radiotelephony procedures. Email header fields can also provide a precedence flag.

  5. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland as a studying tool to aid in memorization for his French class, which he claimed to have "aced". [6] [7] [8] ...

  6. Money supply - Wikipedia

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    In some economics textbooks, the supply-demand equilibrium in the markets for money and reserves is represented by a simple so-called money multiplier relationship between the monetary base of the central bank and the resulting money supply including commercial bank deposits. This is a short-hand simplification which disregards several other ...

  7. Sudden stop (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Lower asset prices are a persistent fact after a banking crisis, which indicate a low value of collaterals to loans, and therefore, negatively impact the banking sector and the supply of loans. Regarding exports, currency crises show a faster recovery in the export sector, while exports remain low for an average of two years after banking crises.

  8. Financial transaction - Wikipedia

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    Financial transaction involving money and agricultural goods at a farmers' market. A financial transaction is an agreement, or communication, between a buyer and seller to exchange goods, services, or assets for payment.

  9. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    (panne, "breakdown") the following is a message concerning a danger to a person or ship, the next level of danger. MAYDAY ([venez] m'aider, come to help me"; aidez-moi means "help me") the following is a message of extreme urgency, the highest level of danger. (MAYDAY is used on voice channels for the same uses as SOS on Morse channels.) SEELONCE