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  2. Soil nailing - Wikipedia

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    Soil nail components may also be used to stabilize retaining walls or existing fill slopes (embankments and levees); this is normally undertaken as a remedial measure. Since its first application using modern techniques in Versailles in 1972, [ 2 ] soil nailing is now a well-established technique around the world.

  3. Remedial action - Wikipedia

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    A remedial action is a change made to a nonconforming product or service to address the deficiency. This also can refer to restoration of a landscape from industrial activity [ 1 ] Rework and repair are generally the remedial actions taken on products, while services usually require additional services to be performed to ensure satisfaction.

  4. Environmental remediation - Wikipedia

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    Dredging contaminated sediment in New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts. The harbor is contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).. Environmental remediation is the cleanup of hazardous substances dealing with the removal, treatment and containment of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment. [1]

  5. Public policy doctrines for the exclusion of relevant evidence

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    A subsequent remedial measure is an improvement, repair, or safety measure made after an injury has occurred. FRE 407 [dead link ‍] prohibits the admission of evidence of subsequent remedial measures to show defendant's (1) negligence; (2) culpable conduct; (3) a defect in defendant's product; (4) defect in the design of defendant's product; or (5) the need for a warning or instruction.

  6. Remedial education - Wikipedia

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    The statement's principles included: aligning remedial courses with a student's long-term area of study at the college, using multiple measures to placement students in remedial courses, requiring all students – including under-prepared students – to pick a program of study when they enter college, integrating academic support services into ...

  7. List of African-American mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    A comparative study of the effectiveness of teaching a course in remedial mathematics to college students by television and by the conventional method [183] 1967 (M) Irvin Elmer Vance University of Michigan: Geometries of the Erlanger Program [184] 1967 (M) Marcus Harold Whitfield Oklahoma State University: Theory of maxima and minima and ...

  8. Goodhart's law - Wikipedia

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    Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". [1] It is named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who is credited with expressing the core idea of the adage in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom: [2]

  9. Urban planning in Singapore - Wikipedia

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    The outcome of their modern growth is much unnecessary disorder, congestion and difficulties for which remedial measures have long been overdue [sic] — Reade, Town Planning Adviser to the Federated Malay States (FMS)