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  2. Complex adaptive system - Wikipedia

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    [15] [16] [17] CAS can be hierarchical, but more often exhibit aspects of "self-organization". [ 18 ] The term complex adaptive system was coined in 1968 by sociologist Walter F. Buckley [ 19 ] [ 20 ] who proposed a model of cultural evolution which regards psychological and socio-cultural systems as analogous with biological species . [ 21 ]

  3. Castiel (Supernatural) - Wikipedia

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    Castiel (/ ˌ k æ s t i ˈ ɛ l /; nicknamed "Cas") [1] is a fictional character portrayed by Misha Collins on The CW's American fantasy television series Supernatural. An Angel of the Lord , he first appears in the fourth season and is used to introduce the theme of Christian theology to the series.

  4. CRISPR gene editing - Wikipedia

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    CRISPR-Cas-based "RNA-guided nucleases" can be used to target virulence factors, genes encoding antibiotic resistance, and other medically relevant sequences of interest. This technology thus represents a novel form of antimicrobial therapy and a strategy by which to manipulate bacterial populations.

  5. Complex traits - Wikipedia

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    Complex traits are phenotypes that are controlled by two or more genes and do not follow Mendel's Law of Dominance. They may have a range of expression which is typically continuous. Both environmental and genetic factors often impact the variation in expression. Human height is a continuous trait meaning that there is a wide range of heights ...

  6. Compare-and-swap - Wikipedia

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    Some CAS-based algorithms are affected by and must handle the problem of a false positive match, or the ABA problem. It is possible that between the time the old value is read and the time CAS is attempted, some other processors or threads change the memory location two or more times such that it acquires a bit pattern which matches the old value.

  7. Slender Man - Wikipedia

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    Professor Thomas Pettitt of the University of Southern Denmark has described the Slender Man as being an exemplar of the modern age's closing of the "Gutenberg Parenthesis"; the time period from the invention of the printing press to the spread of the web in which stories and information were codified in discrete media, to a return to the older ...

  8. Hungary - Wikipedia

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    Hungary has a more than 80% privately owned economy with 39.1% overall taxation, which provides the basis for the country's welfare economy. On the expenditure side, household consumption is the main component of GDP and accounts for 50% of its total use, followed by gross fixed capital formation with 22% and government expenditure with 20%.

  9. Close air support - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Air Force joint terminal attack controllers watching an A-10 Thunderbolt II provide close air support during a live fire exercise. In military tactics, close air support (CAS) is defined as aerial warfare actions—often air-to-ground actions such as strafes or airstrikes—by military aircraft against hostile targets in close proximity to friendly forces.