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54 relations: Aerospace manufacturer, Anachronism, Australia, Average, Behaviorism, Ben Zimmer, Boston Consulting Group, Bruce Henderson, Cost of goods sold, Downton Abbey, Economic development, Economic growth, Educational psychology, Energy returned on energy invested, Experience, Experience curve effects, Exponential decay, Exponential growth, Function (mathematics), Germany, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Innovation, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Jevons paradox, Khazzoom–Brookes postulate, Learning, Learning-by-doing (economics), Logarithm, Machine learning, Management, Mathematical optimization, Microsoft Notepad, Ogive, Organizational behavior, Oxford English Dictionary, Plateau (mathematics), Population growth, Power law, Product life-cycle management (marketing), Pseudoword, Punctuated equilibrium, Second law of thermodynamics, Sigmoid function, Speed learning, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Theodore Paul Wright, Trial and error, Uncertainty coefficient, United Kingdom, United States, ..., Vim (text editor), Webster's Dictionary, Work (physics), Workforce productivity. Expand index (4 more) »
Aerospace manufacturer
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft.
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Anachronism
An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, "against" and χρόνος khronos, "time") is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of persons, events, objects, or customs from different periods of time.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Average
In colloquial language, an average is a middle or typical number of a list of numbers.
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Behaviorism
Behaviorism (or behaviourism) is a systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals.
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Ben Zimmer
Benjamin Zimmer (born 1971) is an American linguist, lexicographer, and language commentator.
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Boston Consulting Group
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is an American multinational management consulting firm with 90 offices in 50 countries.
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Bruce Henderson
Bruce Doolin Henderson (April 30, 1915 – July 20, 1992) was an American entrepreneur, and the founder of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
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Cost of goods sold
Cost of goods sold (COGS) refers to the carrying value of goods sold during a particular period.
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Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey is a historical period drama television series set in England in the early 20th century, created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by Carnival Films and Masterpiece.
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Economic development
economic development wikipedia Economic development is the process by which a nation improves the economic, political, and social well-being of its people.
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Economic growth
Economic growth is the increase in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy over time.
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Educational psychology
Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning.
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Energy returned on energy invested
In physics, energy economics, and ecological energetics, energy returned on energy invested (EROEI or ERoEI); or energy return on investment (EROI), is the ratio of the amount of usable energy (the exergy) delivered from a particular energy resource to the amount of exergy used to obtain that energy resource.
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Experience
Experience is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it.
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Experience curve effects
In management, models of the learning curve effect and the closely related experience curve effect express the relationship between equation and efficiency or between efficiency gains and investment in the effort.
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Exponential decay
A quantity is subject to exponential decay if it decreases at a rate proportional to its current value.
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Exponential growth
Exponential growth is exhibited when the rate of change—the change per instant or unit of time—of the value of a mathematical function is proportional to the function's current value, resulting in its value at any time being an exponential function of time, i.e., a function in which the time value is the exponent.
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Function (mathematics)
In mathematics, a function was originally the idealization of how a varying quantity depends on another quantity.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus (January 24, 1850 – February 26, 1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.
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Innovation
Innovation can be defined simply as a "new idea, device or method".
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International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
The International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, originally edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, is a 26-volume work published by Elsevier.
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Jevons paradox
In economics, the Jevons paradox (sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises because of increasing demand.
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Khazzoom–Brookes postulate
In the 1980s, the economists Daniel Khazzoom and Leonard Brookes independently put forward ideas about energy consumption and behavior that argue that increased energy efficiency paradoxically tends to lead to increased energy consumption.
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Learning
Learning is the process of acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences.
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Learning-by-doing (economics)
Learning-by-doing is a concept in economic theory by which productivity is achieved through practice, self-perfection and minor innovations.
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Logarithm
In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation.
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Machine learning
Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence in the field of computer science that often uses statistical techniques to give computers the ability to "learn" (i.e., progressively improve performance on a specific task) with data, without being explicitly programmed.
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Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body.
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Mathematical optimization
In mathematics, computer science and operations research, mathematical optimization or mathematical programming, alternatively spelled optimisation, is the selection of a best element (with regard to some criterion) from some set of available alternatives.
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Microsoft Notepad
Notepad is a simple text editor for Microsoft Windows and a basic text-editing program which enables computer users to create documents.
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Ogive
An ogive is the roundly tapered end of a two-dimensional or three-dimensional object.
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Organizational behavior
Organizational behavior (OB) or organisational behaviour is "the study of human behavior in organizational settings, the interface between human behavior and the organization, and the organization itself".
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Plateau (mathematics)
A plateau of a function is a part of its domain where the function has constant value.
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Population growth
In biology or human geography, population growth is the increase in the number of individuals in a population.
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Power law
In statistics, a power law is a functional relationship between two quantities, where a relative change in one quantity results in a proportional relative change in the other quantity, independent of the initial size of those quantities: one quantity varies as a power of another.
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Product life-cycle management (marketing)
Product life-cycle management (PLM) is the succession of strategies by business management as a product goes through its life-cycle.
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Pseudoword
A pseudoword or non-word is a unit of speech or text that appears to be an actual word in a certain language, while in fact it has no meaning in the lexicon.
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Punctuated equilibrium
Punctuated equilibrium (also called punctuated equilibria) is a theory in evolutionary biology which proposes that once species appear in the fossil record the population will become stable, showing little evolutionary change for most of its geological history.
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Second law of thermodynamics
The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease over time.
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Sigmoid function
A sigmoid function is a mathematical function having a characteristic "S"-shaped curve or sigmoid curve.
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Speed learning
Speed learning is a collection of methods of learning which attempt to attain higher rates of learning without unacceptable reduction of comprehension or retention.
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is an American dictionary of English published by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969.
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Theodore Paul Wright
Theodore Paul Wright (May 25, 1895 – August 21, 1970) was a U.S. aeronautical engineer and educator.
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Trial and error
Trial and error is a fundamental method of problem solving.
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Uncertainty coefficient
In statistics, the uncertainty coefficient, also called proficiency, entropy coefficient or Theil's U, is a measure of nominal association.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Vim (text editor)
Vim ("Vim is pronounced as one word, like Jim, not vi-ai-em. It's written with a capital, since it's a name, again like Jim." a contraction of Vi IMproved) is a clone, with additions, of Bill Joy's vi text editor program for Unix.
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Webster's Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary is any of the dictionaries edited by Noah Webster in the early nineteenth century, and numerous related or unrelated dictionaries that have adopted the Webster's name.
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Work (physics)
In physics, a force is said to do work if, when acting, there is a displacement of the point of application in the direction of the force.
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Workforce productivity
Workforce productivity is the amount of goods and services that a worker produces in a given amount of time.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve
