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  2. Incandescent light bulb - Wikipedia

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    Historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel list inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison of General Electric. [4]: 91–93 They conclude that Edison's version was the first practical implementation, able to outstrip the others because of a combination of four factors: an effective incandescent material; a vacuum higher than other implementations which was achieved ...

  3. Exemption from military service in Israel - Wikipedia

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    By 2020, about 32.9% of men and 44.3% of women received exemptions from IDF service, and an additional 15% of men dropped out before completing their term of service. [13] Of those who received exemptions, some 44.7% were Haredim, 46.6% were secular, and 8.7% were religious Zionist. [13]

  4. Presidency of Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia

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    After winning the Republican nomination, Reagan pivoted to the center. Though he continued to champion a major tax cut, Reagan backed off of his support for free trade and the privatization of Social Security, and promised to consider arms control treaties with the Soviet Union. He instead sought to focus the race on Carter's handling of the ...

  5. World energy supply and consumption - Wikipedia

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    Primary energy consumption by source (worldwide) from 1965 to 2020 [ 2] World energy supply and consumption refers to the global supply of energy resources and its consumption. The system of global energy supply consists of the energy development, refinement, and trade of energy. Energy supplies may exist in various forms such as raw resources ...

  6. Supply chain management - Wikipedia

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    Supply chain management is a cross-functional approach that includes managing the movement of raw materials into an organization, certain aspects of the internal processing of materials into finished goods, and the movement of finished goods out of the organization and toward the end consumer.

  7. Outsourcing - Wikipedia

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    Outsourcing. Outsourcing is a business practice in which companies use external providers to carry out business processes that would otherwise be handled internally, [ 1][ 2] or in-house. [ 3] Outsourcing sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another.

  8. Mains electricity by country - Wikipedia

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    50 Hz. (1) Nominal grid voltage according to regulation is 230/400 V, [ 44] but in practice, equipment with 220/380 V is more commonly used. (2) Types C and F plugs are officially recognized by SNI 04-3892.1.1-2003. (3) British Type G sockets are common in Riau Islands due to their close proximity to Singapore.

  9. Analytic function - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, an analytic function is a function that is locally given by a convergent power series. There exist both real analytic functions and complex analytic functions. Functions of each type are infinitely differentiable, but complex analytic functions exhibit properties that do not generally hold for real analytic functions.