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  2. Conformity - Wikipedia

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    More recent work [88] stresses the role of orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in conformity not only at the time of social influence, [89] but also later on, when participants are given an opportunity to conform by selecting an action. In particular, Charpentier et al. found that the OFC mirrors the exposure to social influence at a subsequent time ...

  3. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words of Sanskrit origin. Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms.

  4. Manga - Wikipedia

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    The word "manga" comes from the Japanese word 漫画 [40] (katakana: マンガ; hiragana: まんが), composed of the two kanji 漫 (man) meaning "whimsical or impromptu" and 画 (ga) meaning "pictures". [41] [42] The same term is the root of the Korean word for comics, manhwa, and the Chinese word manhua. [43]

  5. Conceptual art - Wikipedia

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    Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz Robert Rauschenberg, Portrait of Iris Clert 1961 Art & Language, Art-Language Vol. 3 Nr. 1, 1974. Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work are prioritized equally to or more than traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns.

  6. Dubai - Wikipedia

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    Dubai (/ d uː ˈ b aɪ /, doo-BYE; Arabic: دبي, romanized: Dubayy, IPA:, Gulf Arabic pronunciation:) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the country's seven emirates.

  7. Excommunication - Wikipedia

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    Calvin notes, "though ecclesiastical discipline does not allow us to be on familiar and intimate terms with excommunicated persons, still we ought to strive by all possible means to bring them to a better mind, and recover them to the fellowship and unity of the Church." [34]

  8. Verification and validation - Wikipedia

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    Verification is intended to check that a product, service, or system meets a set of design specifications. [6] [7] In the development phase, verification procedures involve performing special tests to model or simulate a portion, or the entirety, of a product, service, or system, then performing a review or analysis of the modeling results.

  9. Comfort food - Wikipedia

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    The term comfort food can be traced back at least to 1615, where in the beginning of the second part of one of the most famous works of the Spanish literature Don Quixote, at the beginning of chapter one, Quixote's niece and her nurse (governess, housekeeper?, "ama") are told to pamper him, "to give him things to eat which are comforting and appropriate for the heart and the brain... ."