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  2. Activities of daily living - Wikipedia

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    Data supporting this finding are very limited. RR 1.16 (0.4 to 3.36) Very low Mental state; Average score. (Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale – positive syndrome). Follow-up: mean 24 weeks: People receiving life skills programme scored the same as people receiving standard care. Findings are based on data of very limited quality.*

  3. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    In the 2000 US Census, "White" refers to "person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa." [21] In the 2000 US Census, "Black or African American" refers to a "person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa." [21] The other three self-designated races are not labeled by color ...

  4. Ecosystem service - Wikipedia

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    The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment report 2005 defined ecosystem services as benefits people obtain from ecosystems and distinguishes four categories of ecosystem services, where the so-called supporting services are regarded as the basis for the services of the other three categories.

  5. Supporting People - Wikipedia

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    Supporting People is a UK government programme helping vulnerable people in England and Wales live independently and help them to remain in their home. Initially, it was to help tenants maintain their social housing tenancies, but it has since been broadened to provide housing related support for anyone regardless of housing status.

  6. Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Wikipedia

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    The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year.

  7. A land without a people for a people without a land - Wikipedia

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    Like most people in the 1880s and 90s, he was appalled by the government-instigated pogroms being carried out against Russian Jews. The Blackstone Memorial, an 1891 statement of support for making Palestine a Jewish state, was signed by hundreds of prominent Americans and received wide attention. Although the Memorial did not contain the phrase ...

  8. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    In his book Deschooling Society, philosopher Ivan Illich strongly criticized 20th-century educational culture and the institutionalization of knowledge and learning - arguing that institutional schooling as such is an irretrievably flawed model of education - advocating instead ad-hoc co-operative networks through which autodidacts could find ...

  9. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Removal of life support, such as turning off the power, or "pull the plug" on a ventilator keeping someone alive. Push up daisies [2] To have died and be buried under the ground Humorous, [1] Euphemistic [5] Early 20th century—also 'under the daisies', and 'turn one's toes up to the daisies', which date back to the mid-19th century.