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2. Black Death - Wikipedia

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   Black Death. The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. One of the most fatal pandemics in human history, as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas.

3. Hundredth monkey effect - Wikipedia

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   Hundredth monkey effect. The hundredth monkey effect is an esoteric idea claiming that a new behavior or idea is spread rapidly by unexplained means from one group to all related groups once a critical number of members of one group exhibit the new behavior or acknowledge the new idea. The behavior was said to propagate even to groups that are ...

4. Troxler's fading - Wikipedia

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   Troxler's fading, also called Troxler fading or the Troxler effect, is an optical illusion affecting visual perception. When one fixates on a particular point for even a short period of time, an unchanging stimulus away from the fixation point will fade away and disappear. Research suggests that at least some portion of the perceptual phenomena ...

5. Fixed effects model - Wikipedia

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   Regression analysis. In statistics, a fixed effects model is a statistical model in which the model parameters are fixed or non-random quantities. This is in contrast to random effects models and mixed models in which all or some of the model parameters are random variables. In many applications including econometrics [1] and biostatistics [2 ...

6. The Lazarus Effect (2010 film) - Wikipedia

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   The Lazarus Effect is a 2010 documentary film about the positive impact of free antiretroviral drug therapy on HIV/AIDS patients in Africa. It was directed by Lance Bangs, and executive produced by Spike Jonze, after an organizer from AIDS awareness group Red suggested the project to them. [2] The film features patients and medical staff in ...

7. Free Fire (video game) - Wikipedia

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   Free Fire Max is an enhanced version of Free Fire that was released in 2021. [65] [66] It features improved High-Definition graphics , sound effects , and a 360-degree rotatable lobby. Players can use the same account to play both Free Fire Max and Free Fire , and in-game purchases, costumes, and items are synced between the two games. [67]

8. Coandă effect - Wikipedia

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   This is a demonstration of the Coandă effect. The ball "sticks" to the lower side of the air stream, which stops the ball from falling down. The jet as a whole keeps the ball some distance from the jet exhaust, and gravity prevents it from being blown away. The Coandă effect ( / ˈkwɑːndə / or / ˈkwæ -/) is the tendency of a fluid jet to ...

9. Spotlight effect - Wikipedia

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   Spotlight effect. The spotlight effect is the psychological phenomenon by which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. Being that one is constantly in the center of one's own world, an accurate evaluation of how much one is noticed by others is uncommon. The reason for the spotlight effect is the innate ...