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  2. AP Art History - Wikipedia

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    e. Advanced Placement ( AP) Art History (also known as AP Art or APAH) is an Advanced Placement art history course and exam offered by the College Board . AP Art History is designed to allow students to examine major forms of artistic expression relevant to a variety of cultures evident in a wide variety of periods from the present to the past.

  3. Military junta - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A military junta ( / ˈhʊntə, ˈdʒʌntə / ⓘ) is a government led by a committee of military leaders. The term junta means "meeting" or "committee" and originated in the national and local junta organized by the Spanish resistance to Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808. [ 1] The term is now used to refer to an authoritarian form ...

  4. Merit system - Wikipedia

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    The merit system determines the fitness of the candidate by the ability to pass a written competitive examination, given by a commission of examiners. The answers submitted by candidates must be unsigned, so as to obviate the possibility of favoritism on the part of the examiners. A list is made of the successful candidates, arranged in the ...

  5. Representative democracy - Wikipedia

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    Basic forms of government. Representative democracy (also called electoral democracy or indirect democracy) is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public. [ 1] Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of representative democracy: for example, the United Kingdom (a unitary parliamentary ...

  6. AP Art and Design - Wikipedia

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    Russian Language and Culture (discontinued 2010) v. t. e. Advanced Placement ( AP) Art and Design, [ 1] formerly known as AP Studio Art, is a series of courses offered by the College Board as part of its Advanced Placement program. AP Art and Design is divided into three categories: 2-D Art and Design, 3-D Art and Design, and Drawing.

  7. Presidential system - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A presidential system, or single executive system, is a form of government in which a head of government, typically with the title of president, leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch in systems that use separation of powers. This system was first introduced in the United States.

  8. Collaborative governance - Wikipedia

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    Ansell and Gash (2008) define collaborative governance as follows: [ 7] 'A governing arrangement where one or more public agencies directly engage non-state stakeholders in a collective decision-making process that is formal, consensus-oriented, and deliberative and that aims to make or implement public policy or manage public programs or assets'.

  9. Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and use learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals. [1]