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  2. Barnes' Notes of Practice - Wikipedia

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    Notes of Cases in points of practice, taken in the Court of Common Pleas, from M.T. 1732, to H.T. 1756, inclusive. To which is added a continuation of cases to the end of the reign of Geo. II. is the title of a collection of nominate reports , by Henry Barnes, [ 1 ] of cases decided between approximately 1732 and 1760.

  3. Goodhart's law - Wikipedia

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    Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". [1] It is named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who is credited with expressing the core idea of the adage in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom: [2]

  4. Kinship - Wikipedia

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    The question of whether kinship is a privileged system and if so, why, remains without a satisfactory answer. If it is privileged because of its relationship to the functional prerequisites imposed by the nature of physical kinship, this remains to be spelled out in even the most elementary detail.

  5. Cornell Notes - Wikipedia

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    The student leaves five to seven lines open, or about two inches (5 cm), at the bottom of the page. Notes from a lecture or text are written in the note-taking column; notes usually consist of the main ideas of the text or lecture, and longer ideas are paraphrased. Long sentences are avoided; symbols or abbreviations are used instead.

  6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Curme, George O. (1925). College English Grammar, Richmond, VA, Johnson Publishing company, 414 pages. A revised edition Principles and Practice of English Grammar was published by Barnes & Noble, in 1947. Curme, George O. (1978) [1931, 1935]. A Grammar of the English Language: Volumes I (Parts of Speech) & II (Syntax). Verbatim Books. p. 1045.

  7. Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language - Wikipedia

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    Each of the bands has two levels. Therefore, there are a total of eight levels: Novice 1 and 2, followed by Levels 1 to 6. The items on the test of each level are 50 multiple choice items, to be answered in 60 minutes. Test takers can choose the test levels best suited to them based on their Chinese language proficiency and learning background.

  8. Homework - Wikipedia

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    Cook and Babon discuss the use of weekly quizzes, which are based on the course readings and which test each student's understanding at the end of each week. Weekly quizzes engage not only students, but also teachers, who must look at what is commonly missed, review students' answers, and clear up any misunderstandings. [15]

  9. SparkNotes - Wikipedia

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    The following year, Barnes & Noble [4] purchased SparkNotes and selected fifty literature study guides to publish in print format. When Barnes & Noble printed SparkNotes, they stopped selling their chief competitor, CliffsNotes. [5] In January 2003, SparkNotes developed a practice test service called SparkNotes Test Prep.