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  2. Telehealth - Wikipedia

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    Telehealth is sometimes discussed interchangeably with telemedicine, the latter being more common than the former. The Health Resources and Services Administration distinguishes telehealth from telemedicine in its scope, defining telemedicine only as describing remote clinical services, such as diagnosis and monitoring, while telehealth includes preventative, promotive, and curative care ...

  3. Euthanasia - Wikipedia

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    Learn about the history, legality and ethics of euthanasia in different countries and cultures.

  4. Audio-lingual method - Wikipedia

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    The audio-lingual method or Army Method is a method used in teaching foreign languages.It is based on behaviorist theory, which postulates that certain traits of living things, and in this case humans, could be trained through a system of reinforcement.

  5. Drive shaft - Wikipedia

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    Drive shafts are one method of transferring power from an engine and PTO to vehicle-mounted accessory equipment, such as an air compressor. Drive shafts are used when there is not enough space beside the engine for the additional accessory; the shaft bridges the gap between the engine PTO and the accessory, allowing the accessory to be mounted ...

  6. Crony capitalism - Wikipedia

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    In other words, it is used to describe a situation where businesses thrive not as a result of free enterprise, but rather collusion between a business class and the political class. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Wealth is then accumulated not merely by making a profit in the market , but through profiteering by rent seeking using this monopoly or oligopoly .

  7. Literal translation - Wikipedia

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    Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is a translation of a text done by translating each word separately without looking at how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence. [1] In translation theory, another term for literal translation is metaphrase (as opposed to paraphrase for an analogous translation).

  8. Benevolent dictatorship - Wikipedia

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    A benevolent dictatorship is a government in which an authoritarian leader exercises absolute political power over the state, but is perceived to do so with regard for the benefit of the population as a whole.

  9. Castrato - Wikipedia

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    The regimen of one singing school in Rome (c. 1700) consisted of one hour of singing difficult and awkward pieces, one hour practising trills, one hour practising ornamented passaggi, one hour of singing exercises in their teacher's presence and in front of a mirror so as to avoid unnecessary movement of the body or facial grimaces, and one ...