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  2. Symposium - Wikipedia

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    In Ancient Greece, the symposium (Ancient Greek: συμπόσιον, sympósion or symposio, from συμπίνειν, sympínein, 'to drink together') was the part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation. [1]

  3. Encoding/decoding model of communication - Wikipedia

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    The symbols can be words and numbers, images, face expressions, signals and/or actions. It is very important how a message will be encoded; it partially depends on the purpose of the message. [5] The decoding of a message is how an audience member is able to understand, and interpret the message. It is a process of interpretation and ...

  4. Academic conference - Wikipedia

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    An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work. Together with academic or scientific journals and preprint archives, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between ...

  5. Gossip protocol - Wikipedia

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    For example, a gossip protocol might employ some of these ideas: The core of the protocol involves periodic, pairwise, inter-process interactions. The information exchanged during these interactions is of bounded size. When agents interact, the state of at least one agent changes to reflect the state of the other. Reliable communication is not ...

  6. BLUF (communication) - Wikipedia

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    The body of the message should quickly answer the five Ws: who, what, where, when, and why. The first few sentences explains the purpose and reason of the email and continues to give supporting details. Message conveyed must be clear if simply for information or requiring action. This help email recipients grasp and retain the message. [35]

  7. Symposium (Xenophon) - Wikipedia

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    A female aulos-player entertains men at a symposium on this Attic red-figure. The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a Socratic dialogue written by Xenophon in the late 360s B.C. [1] In it, Socrates and a few of his companions attend a symposium (a dinner party at which Greek aristocrats could enjoy entertainment and discussion) hosted by Kallias for the young man Autolykos.

  8. Outline (list) - Wikipedia

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    Specialized applications of outlines also exist. A reverse outline is a list of sentences or topics that is created from an existing work, as a revision tool; it may show the gaps in the document's coverage so that they may be filled, and may help in rearranging sentences or topics to improve the structure and flow of the work.

  9. Five whys - Wikipedia

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    In this example, the fifth "why" suggests a broken shelf foot, which can be immediately replaced to prevent the reoccurrence of the sequence of events that resulted in cross-threading bolts. The nature of the answer to the fifth why in the example is also an important aspect of the five why approach, because solving the immediate problem may ...