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  2. Activated clotting time - Wikipedia

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    Activated clotting time (ACT), also known as activated coagulation time, is a test of coagulation. [1] [2]The ACT test can be used to monitor anticoagulation effects, such as from high-dose heparin before, during, and shortly after procedures that require intense anticoagulant administration, such as cardiac bypass, interventional cardiology, thrombolysis, extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation ...

  3. Pomodoro Technique - Wikipedia

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    A pomodoro kitchen timer. The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. [1] It uses a kitchen timer to break work into intervals, typically 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for tomato, after the tomato-shaped ...

  4. ACT (test) - Wikipedia

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    The ACT (/ eɪ siː tiː /; originally an abbreviation of American College Testing) [10] is a standardized test used for college admissions in the United States. It is administered by ACT, a nonprofit organization of the same name. [10] The ACT test covers four academic skill areas: English, mathematics, reading, and scientific reasoning.

  5. Beat (filmmaking) - Wikipedia

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    Beat (filmmaking) In filmmaking, a beat is a small amount of action resulting in a pause in dialogue. Beats usually involve physical gestures like a character walking to a window or removing their glasses and rubbing their eyes. Short passages of internal monologue can also be considered a sort of internal beat.

  6. Assertive community treatment - Wikipedia

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    Assertive community treatment. Assertive community treatment (ACT) is an intensive and highly integrated approach for community mental health service delivery. [1] ACT teams serve individuals who have been diagnosed with serious and persistent forms of mental illness, predominantly but not exclusively the schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

  7. Andrew Jackson and the slave trade in the United States

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    The tie between Jackson—a native of the Carolinas and pioneer settler of Tennessee in 1788—and distant Mississippi was the geography of commerce. Moving goods from the Cumberland River basin to eastern markets, even those in East Tennessee, was challenging because of the necessary but quite difficult passage through the Appalachian Mountains. [1]

  8. Timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks - Wikipedia

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    8:52: Sky News presenter Kay Burley breaks the news of the first plane crash to the UK. 8:52:50: Fox News comes back from a commercial break to report the attack. E. D. Hill informs viewers that a plane crashed into the North Tower. [51] 8:53: Network Ten news anchor Sandra Sully makes the first report of the incident over Australian television.

  9. ACT-R - Wikipedia

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    ACT-R (pronounced /ˌækt ˈɑr/; short for " Adaptive Control of Thought—Rational ") is a cognitive architecture mainly developed by John Robert Anderson and Christian Lebiere at Carnegie Mellon University. Like any cognitive architecture, ACT-R aims to define the basic and irreducible cognitive and perceptual operations that enable the ...