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  2. Social order - Wikipedia

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    The problem of order or Hobbesian problem, which is central to much of sociology, political science and political philosophy, is the question of how and why it is that social orders exist at all. Sociology

  3. Ordered liberty - Wikipedia

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    Ordered liberty is a concept in political philosophy, where individual freedom is balanced with the necessity for maintaining social order. The phrase "ordered liberty" originates from an opinion by Justice Benjamin Cardozo in Palko v.

  4. Order-maintenance problem - Wikipedia

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    A problem related to the order-maintenance problem is the list-labeling problem in which instead of the order(X, Y) operation the solution must maintain an assignment of labels from a universe of integers {,, …,} to the elements of the set such that X precedes Y in the total order if and only if X is assigned a lesser label than Y.

  5. Entropy (order and disorder) - Wikipedia

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    An example of an order parameter for crystallization is "bond orientational order" describing the development of preferred directions (the crystallographic axes) in space. For many systems, phases with more structural (e.g. crystalline) order exhibit less entropy than fluid phases under the same thermodynamic conditions.

  6. International order - Wikipedia

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    David Lake, Lisa Martin and Thomas Risse define "order" as "patterned or structured relationships among units". [2]Michael Barnett defines an international order as "patterns of relating and acting" derived from and maintained by rules, institutions, law and norms. [4]

  7. Maintenance - Wikipedia

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    Condition-based maintenance was introduced to try to maintain the correct equipment at the right time. CBM is based on using real-time data to prioritize and optimize maintenance resources. Observing the state of the system is known as condition monitoring. Such a system will determine the equipment's health, and act only when maintenance is ...

  8. Professional organizing - Wikipedia

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    A professional organizer helps individuals and companies with organization. [5] In addition to the actual organizing process and implementation of systems and processes, it can be just as important that the client learns methods so that they can maintain order and master organizing independently in the future.

  9. Relationship maintenance - Wikipedia

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    Relationship maintenance (or relational maintenance) refers to a variety of behaviors exhibited by relational partners in an effort to maintain that relationship.Scholars define relational maintenance in four different ways: [1] to keep a relationship in existence, to keep a relationship in a specified state or condition, to keep a relationship in a satisfactory condition, and to keep a ...