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  2. Pig intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Lulu, a pet potbellied pig, was motivated to seek help when her owner suffered a heart attack. The pig got outside the house and occupied the road, then went back to the house, repeating this behavior until a car stopped and Lulu led the driver to her owner, who was finally saved.

  3. PIGA accelerometer - Wikipedia

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    The PIGA was based on an accelerometer developed by Dr. Fritz Mueller, then of the Kreiselgeraete Company, for the LEV-3 and experimental SG-66 guidance system of the Nazi era German V2 (EMW A4) ballistic missile and was known among the German rocket scientists as the MMIA "Mueller Mechanical Integrating Accelerometer". This system used ...

  4. The Hog Book - Wikipedia

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    In 1978, Phoebe-Lou Adams, in her review for The Atlantic, wrote: "only a confirmed pig-hater could resist this odd, pretty (yes, pretty) book." [3] Peter Shahrokh, writing for Agricultural History, claims: "Hedgepeth's basic message is that we limit ourselves terribly when we believe in the formula "pig equals pork"; the hog can be much more as Hedgepeth happily shows through his lively and ...

  5. Piezoelectric accelerometer - Wikipedia

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    Manufacturing an accelerometer that uses piezoresistance first starts with a semiconductor layer that is attached to a handle wafer by a thick oxide layer. The semiconductor layer is then patterned to the accelerometer's geometry. This semiconductor layer has one or more apertures so that the underlying mass will have the corresponding apertures.

  6. Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows - Wikipedia

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    Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism is a 2009 book by American social psychologist Melanie Joy about the belief system and psychology of meat eating, or "carnism". [1] Joy coined the term carnism in 2001 and developed it in her doctoral dissertation in 2003.

  7. Marie Darrieussecq - Wikipedia

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    Pig Tales and My Phantom Husband can be read as two early novels that announce the total body of her work: she writes about the body and its metamorphosis, [6] overflow and loss, with an unprecedented approach to feminine issues, while resorting to the fantastic, ghosts and monsters. Monsters play an important role in Darrieussecq's poetics ...

  8. Robert V. Guthrie - Wikipedia

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    The 2nd Edition of the book was published in 1998, with responses to new developments in the field, such as The Bell Curve which suggested racial differences in IQ and intelligence between races. [4] Even more crucial than the examination of racist academic work was the book's work cataloging the work and triumphs of early Black psychologists.

  9. Schmidt (worker) - Wikipedia

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    Schmidt is a character in Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor.His true identity was Henry Noll. [1]In Principles, Taylor described how between 1898–1901 at Bethlehem Steel he had motivated Schmidt to increase his workload from carrying 12 tons of pig iron per day to 47 tons. [2]