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  2. Ouroboros - Wikipedia

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    An ouroboros in a 1478 drawing in an alchemical tract [1]. The ouroboros or uroboros (/ ˌ j ʊər ə ˈ b ɒr ə s /; [2] / ˌ ʊər ə ˈ b ɒr ə s / [3]) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon [4] eating its own tail.

  3. English translations of Asterix - Wikipedia

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    In the same album, much of the humor came from Goscinny's high-fidelity rendition of the English language using French words. This, of course, is totally lost by re-translation into English, but compensated for by making the British characters speak in an antiquated, early-twentieth-century style.

  4. Regulation and licensure in engineering - Wikipedia

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    Regulation and licensure in engineering is established by various jurisdictions of the world to encourage life, public welfare, safety, well-being, then environment and other interests of the general public [1] and to define the licensure process through which an engineer becomes licensed to practice engineering and to provide professional services and products to the public.

  5. Balanced scorecard - Wikipedia

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    Broadly, the original 'measures in four boxes' type design (as initially proposed by Kaplan & Norton [5]) constitutes the 1st generation balanced scorecard design; balanced scorecard designs that include a 'strategy map' or 'strategic linkage model' (e.g. the Performance Prism, [29] later Kaplan & Norton designs, [17] and the Performance Driver ...

  6. Hospitality - Wikipedia

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    Bringing in the boar's head.In heraldry, the boar's head was sometimes used as symbol of hospitality, often seen as representing the host's willingness to feed guests well. [1]

  7. Lost in Translation (film) - Wikipedia

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    Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film [note 1] written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a fading American movie star who is having a midlife crisis when he travels to Tokyo to promote Suntory whisky.

  8. English language - Wikipedia

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    A process more common in Old English than in Modern English, but still productive in Modern English, is the use of derivational suffixes (-hood, -ness, -ing, -ility) to derive new words from existing words (especially those of Germanic origin) or stems (especially for words of Latin or Greek origin).

  9. Google Neural Machine Translation - Wikipedia

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    GNMT improved on the quality of translation by applying an example-based (EBMT) machine translation method in which the system learns from millions of examples of language translation. [2] GNMT's proposed architecture of system learning was first tested on over a hundred languages supported by Google Translate. [2]