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  2. Golden Rule - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Rule in its prohibitive (negative) form was a common principle in ancient Greek philosophy. Examples of the general concept include: "Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing." – Thales [12] (c. 624 – c. 546 BCE) "What you do not want to happen to you, do not do it yourself either." – Sextus the Pythagorean. [13]

  3. Reflection (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Reflection of light is either specular (mirror-like) or diffuse (retaining the energy, but losing the image) depending on the nature of the interface.In specular reflection the phase of the reflected waves depends on the choice of the origin of coordinates, but the relative phase between s and p (TE and TM) polarizations is fixed by the properties of the media and of the interface between them.

  4. Chatham House Rule - Wikipedia

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    The rule was created in 1927 and refined in 1992. Since its most recent refinement in 2002, the rule states: [1] When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.

  5. Refractive index - Wikipedia

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    An example of a plasma with an index of refraction less than unity is Earth's ionosphere. Since the refractive index of the ionosphere (a plasma ), is less than unity, electromagnetic waves propagating through the plasma are bent "away from the normal" (see Geometric optics ) allowing the radio wave to be refracted back toward earth, thus ...

  6. Bragg's law - Wikipedia

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    These selection rules can be used for any crystal with the given crystal structure. KCl has a face-centered cubic Bravais lattice . However, the K + and the Cl − ion have the same number of electrons and are quite close in size, so that the diffraction pattern becomes essentially the same as for a simple cubic structure with half the lattice ...

  7. Golden mean (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    For example, it is not good to have too much patience, but it is not good to live without any patience at all. Musar can be said to involve being mindful enough to bring one's character traits, thoughts and desires into a balanced state in real time; living one's life in accord with the golden mean.

  8. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    The payments that Lagos authorities offered for larger demolished structures, for example, were 31 percent lower than what the World Bank’s own consultants said they were worth. “It was like David and Goliath. There were these little people fighting against this giant,” Chapman said. The bank “really left vulnerable people on their own.”

  9. Rotations and reflections in two dimensions - Wikipedia

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    The set of all reflections in lines through the origin and rotations about the origin, together with the operation of composition of reflections and rotations, forms a group. The group has an identity: Rot(0). Every rotation Rot(φ) has an inverse Rot(−φ). Every reflection Ref(θ) is its own inverse. Composition has closure and is ...