World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective) is a multidisciplinary approach to world history and social...
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A world-system is a socioeconomic system, under systems theory, that encompasses part or all of the globe, detailing the aggregate structural result of...
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The World Geodetic System (WGS) is a standard used in cartography, geodesy, and satellite navigation including GPS. The current version, WGS 84, defines...
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The Walt Disney World Monorail System is a public transit monorail in operation at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. The...
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The World Wireless System was a turn of the 20th century proposed telecommunications and electrical power delivery system designed by inventor Nikola...
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World System Teletext (WST) is the name of a standard for encoding and displaying teletext information, which is used as the standard for teletext throughout...
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The System of the World can refer to several things: The System of the World (novel), a 2005 book by Neal Stephenson The third book of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ...
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An open system is a system that has external interactions. Such interactions can take the form of information, energy, or material transfers into or out...
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The interstate system is a concept used within world-systems theory to describe the system of state relationships that arose either as a concomitant process...
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complex adaptive system at the interdisciplinary Santa Fe Institute.[citation needed] Systems theory views the world as a complex system of interconnected...
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Swaan developed this theory in 2001 in his book Words of the World: The Global Language System and according to him, "the multilingual connections between...
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World Broadcasting System, Inc., was an American recording service for the radio industry founded in 1929 by Percy L. Deutsch (1885–1968), with key investors...
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ethnically- and religiously-defined peoples from the politico-economic world system, such as the First Nations groups throughout North, Central and South...
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Multinational corporation Second World Third World Three-world model World-systems theory First World, Investopedia "First world". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved...
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The Sea World Monorail System was a 2-kilometre (6,600 ft) monorail circuit around the Sea World theme park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It...
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In order to develop a world state, three changes must occur in the world system: Universal security community – a peaceful system of binding dispute resolution...
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The System of the World is a novel by Neal Stephenson and the third and final volume in The Baroque Cycle. The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac...
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legal systems is called comparative law. Both civil (also known as Roman) and common law systems can be considered the most widespread in the world: civil...
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This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide. In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways...
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Third World directly, the first two groups came to be known as the "First World" and "Second World," respectively. Here the three-world system emerged...
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relations, posits that the international system during the Cold War operated as three contradictory politico-economic worlds. It was first formulated by Mao Zedong...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) ranked the health systems of its 191 member states in its World Health Report 2000. It provided a framework and measurement...
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A world taxation system or global tax is a hypothetical system for the collection of taxes by a central international revenue service. The idea has garnered...
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Chief World Systems (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo) is a 1632 Italian-language book by Galileo Galilei comparing the Copernican system with...
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global disaster risks World-systems theory – Approach emphasizing the world-system as the primary unit of social analysis World War – War involving major...
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New World Systems is a public sector software company based in Troy, Michigan and a major manufacturer of computer-aided dispatch software that is primarily...
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Wardenclyffe Tower (redirect from Tesla's World Wireless System)
Electrical Energy Without Wires", Electrical World and Engineer, March 5, 1904. Tesla, Nikola, "World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy", Telegraph...
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power systems. Social-ecological interpretations of resilience, where different levels of our world (e.g., the Earth system, the political system) are...
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The World Geographic Reference System (GEOREF) is a geocode, a grid-based method of specifying locations on the surface of the Earth. GEOREF is essentially...
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World system consisted of isolated imperial systems. The new Mongol empire amalgamated the once isolated civilizations into a new continental system,...
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