Call centers

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A call centre (UK) or call center (US) is a centralised office of a company that answers incoming telephone calls from customers. A call center may be an office that makes outgoing telephone calls to customers (telemarketing). Such an office … Read More

Shell games

The shell game (Thimblerig, Three Shell and a Pea, or Old Army Game) is considered a gambling game, but is purely a swindle game used to perpetrate fraud. It is played on a flat surface, and requires three shells (or … Read More

American poetry

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The poetry of the United States began as a literary art during the colonial era. Unsurprisingly, most of the early poetry written in the colonies and fledgling republic used contemporary British models of poetic form, diction, and theme. However, in … Read More

Transformations

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes. ~ Grass Günter Traducerea este cea care transformă totul fără a schimba nimic. ~ Grass Günter

Computer insecurity

Many current computer systems have a very poor level of computer security. This computer insecurity article describes the current battlefield of computer security exploits and defenses. Please see the computer security article for an alternative approach, based on security engineering … Read More

Matter

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One contemporary view on matter takes it as all scientifically observable entities whatsoever. Commonly, the definition is limited to such entities explored by physics. The definition pursued here is of matter as whatever the smallest, most fundamental entities in physics … Read More

The e-marketing concept

So, what is e-marketing? Electronic Marketing. Including all marketing methods that can be adapted to an on-line business. Such business will be promoted using specific means: e-mail, link exchange, contests, submission to search engines, use of an autoresponder, publishing a … Read More

Români

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Românii (sau din punct de vedere istoric, dar acum un regionalism rar folosit – rumâni, exonim datat: vlahi) sunt un grup vorbitori ai limbilor romanice orientale, etnici originari din România, care vorbesc limba română, şi sunt locuitorii majoritari în România. … Read More

Children’s music

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Children’s music provides an important and entertaining means of teaching children about their culture, other cultures, good behavior, facts and skills. Many are folk songs, but there is a whole genre of educational music that has become increasingly popular. Recordings … Read More

Concerns about translation

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Assessment of the amount of translated texts There are no comprehensive statistics, mainly because of a large number of translations made in the gray literature or disseminated via the Internet without going through the traditional networks. Worldwide, the most translated … Read More

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