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  2. List of Mediterranean countries - Wikipedia

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    The Mediterranean countries are those that surround the Mediterranean Sea or located within the Mediterranean Basin. [1] Twenty sovereign countries in Southern Europe , Western Asia and North Africa regions border the sea itself, two island nations completely located in it ( Malta and Cyprus ), in addition to two British Overseas Territories ...

  3. Race and health - Wikipedia

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    Multiple sclerosis, for example, is typically associated with people of European descent, but due to admixture African Americans have elevated levels of the disorder relative to Africans. [87] Some diseases and physiological variables vary depending upon their admixture ratios. Examples include measures of insulin functioning [88] and obesity. [89]

  4. Decompression practice - Wikipedia

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    For example, tables using Bühlmann's algorithm define bottom time as the elapsed time between leaving the surface and the start of the final ascent at 10 metres per minute, and if the ascent rate is slower, then the excess of the ascent time to the first required decompression stop needs to be considered part of the bottom time for the tables ...

  5. Mediterraneanism - Wikipedia

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    [2]: 188 Both Nordicism and biological racism were often considered incompatible with the early Italian fascist philosophy at the time; Nordicism inherently subordinated Italians and other Mediterranean people beneath the Germans and Northwestern Europeans in its proposed racial hierarchy, and early Italian fascists, including Mussolini, often ...

  6. Fixation index - Wikipedia

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    Fst values between European populations. The fixation index (F ST) is a measure of population differentiation due to genetic structure.It is frequently estimated from genetic polymorphism data, such as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) or microsatellites.

  7. Mediterranean race - Wikipedia

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    The Mediterranean race (also Mediterranid race) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on the now-disproven theory of biological race. [1] [2] [3] According to writers of the late 19th to mid-20th centuries it was a sub-race of the Caucasian race. [4]

  8. Laplace's method - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, Laplace's method, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, is a technique used to approximate integrals of the form (),where is a twice-differentiable function, is a large number, and the endpoints and could be infinite.

  9. Rule of three (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    In aviation, the rule of three or "3:1 rule of descent" is a rule of thumb that 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) of travel should be allowed for every 1,000 feet (300 m) of descent. [1] [2] For example, a descent from flight level 350 would require approximately 35x3=105 nautical miles.