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12 hours ago · To evaluate memory, the 3 word test, is a simple and rapid bedside test used to assess learning and memory. It involves presenting three unrelated words to the individual and later asking them to ...
22 hours ago · Etymology. The English meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". In the Catholic tradition, the use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to at least the 12th-century monk Guigo II, before which the Greek word theoria was used for the same ...
22 hours ago · Etymology The words "conscious" and "consciousness" in English date to the 1600s and the first recorded use of "conscious" as a simple adjective was applied figuratively to inanimate objects ("the conscious Groves", 1643). : 175 It derived from the Latin conscius (con- "together" and scio "to know") which meant "knowing with" or "having joint or common knowledge with another", especially as in ...
22 hours ago · Cold War; Part of the post-World War II era: Clockwise from top right: Checkpoint Charlie, 1970; A U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H Neptune flying over a Soviet freighter, 1962; George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign agreements to end chemical weapon production 1990; Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989; Prague Spring and subsequent Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968; the Berlin Wall at the ...
22 hours ago · The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. (For notable practitioners in previous centuries, see history of scientific method .) The scientific method involves careful observation coupled with rigorous scepticism, because cognitive ...
22 hours ago · Definitions The word "love" can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts. Many other languages use multiple words to express some of the different concepts that in English are denoted as "love"; one example is the plurality of Greek concepts for "love" (agape, eros, philia, storge). Cultural differences in conceptualizing love make it difficult to establish a ...
22 hours ago · Definitions. A tornado is a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel cloud. [18] For a vortex to be classified as a tornado, it must be in contact with both the ground and the cloud base.
