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  2. Angiotensin-converting enzyme - Wikipedia

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    Angiotensin-converting enzyme (EC 3.4.15.1), or ACE, is a central component of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), which controls blood pressure by regulating the volume of fluids in the body. It converts the hormone angiotensin I to the active vasoconstrictor angiotensin II .

  3. List of Cobra Kai episodes - Wikipedia

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    Cobra Kai is an American comedy-drama and martial arts television series. The series is a direct continuation and spin-off of the first four films in The Karate Kid franchise, and initially picks up 30 years after the 1984 titular film. [1]

  4. Degeneration (Nordau) - Wikipedia

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    The book deals with numerous case studies of various artists, writers and thinkers (Oscar Wilde, Henrik Ibsen, Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche to name a few), but its basic premise remains that society and human beings themselves are degenerating, and this degeneration is both reflected in and influenced by art, where "degenerate ...

  5. Cobra Kai - Wikipedia

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    Cobra Kai is an American martial arts comedy drama television series created by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg, and distributed by Sony Pictures Television.

  6. Social degeneration - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of degeneration was poorly defined, but can be described as an organism's change from a more complex to a simpler, less differentiated form, and is associated with 19th-century conceptions of biological devolution. In scientific usage, the term was reserved for changes occurring at a histological level – i.e. in body tissues.

  7. Degeneracy (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    A degenerate conic is a conic section (a second-degree plane curve, defined by a polynomial equation of degree two) that fails to be an irreducible curve. A point is a degenerate circle, namely one with radius 0. [1] The line is a degenerate case of a parabola if the parabola resides on a tangent plane.

  8. Accumulated cyclone energy - Wikipedia

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    The highest ACE of a Category 1 hurricane was Hurricane Nadine in 2012, which attained an ACE of 26.3. The record for lowest ACE of a tropical storm is jointly held by Tropical Storm Chris in 2000 and Tropical Storm Philippe in 2017 , both of which were tropical storms for only six hours and had an ACE of just 0.1225.

  9. Degeneracy - Wikipedia

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    Degenerate matter, a very highly compressed phase of matter which resists further compression because of quantum mechanical effects Degenerate semiconductor , a semiconductor with such a high doping-level that the material starts to act more like a metal than as a semiconductor