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  2. Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement ...

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    Volume may be measured either in terms of units of cubic length or with specific volume units. The units of cubic length (the cubic inch, cubic foot, cubic mile, etc.) are the same in the imperial and US customary systems, but they differ in their specific units of volume (the bushel, gallon, fluid ounce, etc.).

  3. System of units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In the metric system and other recent systems, underlying relationships between quantities, as expressed by formulae of physics such as Newton's laws of motion, is used to select a small number of base quantities for which a unit is defined for each, from which all other units may be derived. Secondary units (multiples and submultiples) are ...

  4. Christianity and other religions - Wikipedia

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    Relations between both religions are generally good, except in South Korea where Christians have damaged Buddhist temples and engaged in other forms of Christian extremism. [7] The Russian republic of Kalmykia recognizes Tibetan/Lamaist Buddhism and Russian Orthodoxy as its official religions.

  5. Alternatives to Darwinian evolution - Wikipedia

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    The modern synthesis a generation later, roughly between 1918 and 1932, broadly swept away all the alternatives to Darwinism, though some including forms of orthogenesis, [45] epigenetic mechanisms that resemble Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characteristics, [53] catastrophism, [58] structuralism, [69] and mutationism [78] have been ...

  6. Islam and other religions - Wikipedia

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    The Qur'an distinguishes between the monotheistic People of the Book (ahl al-kitab), i.e. Jews, Christians, Sabians and others on the one hand and polytheists or idolaters on the other hand. [ citation needed ] There are certain kinds of restrictions that apply to polytheists but not to "People of the Book" in classical Islamic law .

  7. Comparison of U.S. state and territory governments - Wikipedia

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    Arkansas, along with Rhode Island, is one of the only states that requires a supermajority to pass a budget. A three-fourths majority is required for appropriations, except for education, highways, and paying down the state debt, which require a simple majority. [7] California

  8. Set operations (SQL) - Wikipedia

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    For purposes of row elimination and duplicate removal, the EXCEPT operator does not distinguish between NULLs. The EXCEPT ALL operator does not remove duplicates, but if a row appears X times in the first query and Y times in the second, it will appear max ( X − Y , 0 ) {\displaystyle \max(X-Y,0)} times in the result set.

  9. Management by exception - Wikipedia

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    The difference between the estimated and actual figures is defined as variance. [12] To understand the cause of the difference, managers need to investigate the questions how the variance differs from last period and what are the causes for not reaching the estimated figures. [ 13 ]