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• Mood
  A '''mood''' is a relatively long lasting [[emotion]]al [[state]]. Moods differ from simple emotions in that they are less specific, less i ...sitive or negative [[valence]]. In other [[words]], people typically speak of being in a good mood or a bad mood. Unlike acute, emotional feelings like f
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• ETANA
  ...grant from the same foundation, the ETANA web portal was launched in 2001. The founding institutions and associations that conceived and implemented this ....wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Schools_of_Oriental_Research American Schools of Oriental Research]
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• Wouter J. Hanegraaff
  ...so President of the [https://www.esswe.org/ European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism] (ESSWE). ...soterica (journal)|Esoterica]]'', and on the advisory board of ''[[Journal of Contemporary Religion]]'' and ''[[Nova Religio]]''.
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• Accountability
  ....wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th century] Norman England, the concept of account-giving has ancient roots in record keeping activities related to go <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Accountability''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?
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• University
  ...chology]], city planning, and history of science came of age as autonomous university-based disciplines. ...ny religious assumptions. At the same time universities embraced new forms of [[critical]] and [[scientific]] [[thinking]], and as a consequence [[theolo
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• Ritual
  ...] by religious or [[political]] [[law]]s because of the perceived efficacy of those actions.[https://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/ritual?view=uk|title=A <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Ritual''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ca
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• Taxonomy
  ...ctice]] and [[science]] of classification. The [[word]] finds its roots in the [[Greek]] τάξις, taxis (meaning 'order', 'arrangement') and νόμος ...ional properties, behaviors, or constraints. For example, car is a subtype of vehicle. So any car is also a vehicle, but not every vehicle is a car. Ther
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• Pleasure
  ...[[music]], usage of drugs. The term analogously connotes a positive mental state arising from complex [[perception]], writing or reading, accomplishment, re ...ore generally, pleasure is characterised by others as reduction or absence of suffering.
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• Prana
  '''Prana''' (प्राण, prāṇa) is the [[Sanskrit]] for "breath" (from the root ''prā'' "to fill", cognate to Latin ''plenus'' "full"). It is one of the five organs of vitality or sensation, viz. ''prana'' "breath", ''vac'' "speech", ''caksus'
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• Microfinance
  ...es) should not be confused with microfinance, which addresses a full range of banking needs for poor people. ...microfinance generally believe that such access will help poor people out of poverty.
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• Disease
  *2 : a condition of the living [[animal]] or plant [[body]] or of one of its parts that impairs [[normal]] [[function]]ing and is typically [[manife ...vironment]]al factors. Distinct symptoms usually indicate the [[presence]] of disease.
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• Abraham Maslow
  ...erarchy of needs|hierarchy of human needs]]", and is considered the father of [[humanistic psychology]]. [https://www.scimednet.org/bibliography/transper ...ewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I was isolated and unhappy. I grew up in libraries and am
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• Individual
  ...metimes meaning "a person". (q.v. "The problem of [[proper name]]s"). From the seventeenth century on, '''individual''' indicates separateness, as in [[in <center>For lessons on the '''''Individual''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?titl
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• Holography
  ...s in exactly the same way as if the object were still present, thus making the recorded image (hologram) appear [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimen The technique of holography can also be used to [[Optics|optically]] store, retrieve, and [[
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• Immanuel Wallerstein
  '''Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein''' (born 28 September, 1930, [[New York City]]) is a U.S. [[sociology|sociologist]], historical social scientist, a ...al. In 2003 he received the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the [[American Sociological Association]].
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• Motivation
  ...ds such as eating and resting, or a desired object, hobby, goal, [[state]] of [[being]], [[ideal]], or it may be attributed to less-apparent [[reason]]s <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Motivation''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?titl
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• Pantheistic
  *1: a [[doctrine]] that equates [[God]] with the [[forces]] and laws of the [[universe]] ...also : [[toleration]] of [[worship]] of all gods (as at certain periods of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_empire Roman empire])
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• Curriculum
  ...inherent in the new [[paradigm]] view of curriculum. (<u>Curricula</u> is the plural form) <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Curriculum''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?titl
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• Inertia
  ...tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Isaac Newton] defined inertia in Definition 3 of his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which states:[1] ...to preserve in its [[Status quo|present state]], whether it be of rest, or of moving [[uniformly]] forward in a straight line.
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• Momentum
  ...same unless outside [[force]]s [[act]] on the objects (law of conservation of momentum). Momentum is a conserved quantity, meaning that the total momentum of any closed [[system]] (one not affected by external forces) cannot [[change
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