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Air Force Combat Organizations: Strategic Air Forces

Air Force Combat Organizations: Strategic Air Forces  

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Subject:
History, Military History
First introduced as auxiliaries in support of ground and naval forces, aircraft offered a potential technological solution to the problems of warfare in the industrial age. Aerial forces could fly ...
Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville  

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Social sciences
(1805–59)An early French sociologist who travelled to the United States between 1831 and 1832 to observe democracy at work. His classic work Democracy in America (1835–40) identifies within ...
authors — doctors as

authors — doctors as  

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Medicine and health
In 1936, Lord Moynihan of Leeds (1865–1936), a famous surgeon, gave a Linacre lecture, published the same year and republished in 1983. He called his lecture: Truants — the story ...
AWACs and E-3S

AWACs and E-3S  

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History, Military History
The AWACS—for Airborne Warning and Control System—is a specialized military aircraft intended for long‐range air surveillance and control. Development of the AWACS—more specifically known as the ...
Battle of Jutland

Battle of Jutland  

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History
A major naval battle in the First World War, fought between the British Grand Fleet under Admiral Jellicoe and the German High Seas Fleet in the North Sea west of Jutland on 31 May 1916. Although the ...
Battle of Svensksund

Battle of Svensksund  

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History
Oared warfare is usually associated with the Mediterranean, and it is often supposed to have ceased to be important after the Battle of Lepanto (Greece) in 1571. However, galleys were ...
Careers in the Military

Careers in the Military  

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History, Military History
Since the early 1780s, careers in the American military have been varied and demanding. Over the last 200 years, the requirements of the military to be variously a constabulary, combatant ...
code

code  

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Archaeology, Art & Architecture, Classical studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Media studies, Music, Performing arts, Philosophy, Religion, Society and culture
1 A numerical and/or alphabetical system for organizing and classifying information and data.2 A formal statement of acceptable ways for members of a defined professional group to behave, i.e., a ...
coding and Decoding

coding and Decoding  

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Subject:
History, Military History
The process of encrypting messages in code or cipher for transmission and decrypting by authorized persons of such messages at the receiving end. The decrypting of code or cipher messages by ...
combat Support

combat Support  

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History, Military History
Fire support and operational assistance provided to combat elements, including artillery, air defense artillery, engineer, military police, signal, and military intelligence support.
common sense

common sense  

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Media studies
In early modern writing (e.g. Descartes) the faculty responsible for coordinating the deliveries of the different senses. In this meaning the objects of common sense are the ‘common sensibles’, i.e. ...
communication

communication   Reference library

Encyclopedia of Semiotics

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2007
Subject:
Language reference, Linguistics
Length:
2,017 words

The etymology of communication (Latin, communicare, to share material goods or ideas, meanings, information) indicates some form of transfer

Communication

Communication   Reference library

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Language reference, Linguistics
Length:
8,101 words

Commonly defined as the transmission or exchange of ideas, communication relates to rhetoric in various small and large ways. Communication

communication

communication   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Medicine and health
Length:
4,104 words

In parallel with the tremendous bio-technologic revolution that has been the centerpiece of medicine in the 20th century, communication in

communication

communication   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Canadian History

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
660 words

As a central organizing concept in the study of society, communication asks how ways of life are shared and how

communication

communication   Quick reference

The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2007
Subject:
Science and technology, Medicine and health
Length:
28 words

Any imparting or exchange of information between two or more people. Communication may be verbal, non-verbal, intentional, or unintentional. See also ...

communication

communication n.   Reference library

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2002
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
99 words
1 the imparting or exchanging of information or news: direct communication between the two countries will produce greater understanding 2... ... More
communication

communication   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Philosophy
Length:
175 words

The act of meaning something, of conveying a propositional attitude (belief, desire, intention, regret, etc.) to an audience, by linguistic

communication design

communication design  

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Media studies
An emergent field of disparate specialisms sharing a common concern for matching design features and media to different target audiences, contexts, and functions. It spans such areas as: advertising, ...
communication in the scientific community

communication in the scientific community   Reference library

Science, Technology, and Society

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Science and technology, History of Science, Social sciences
Length:
3,493 words

The deeply social endeavors of science and technology are held together by communication that is both cooperative and competitive. To

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