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Network topology
A network topology is the pattern of links connecting pairs of node s of a Wiktionary:Network. It's the shape of a LAN or other communications system. A given node has one or more links to others, and the links can appear in a variety of different shapes. The simplest connection is a one-way link between two devices.
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Neural network
A neural network is a system of interconnecting neurons in a network working together to produce an output function. The output of a neural network relies on the cooperation of the individual neurons within the network to operate. Processing of information by neural networks is often done in parallel rather than in series.
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Neuroethics
Neuroethics is most commonly understood to be the bioethics subcategory concerned with neuroscience and neurotechnology. However, some philosophers, ethicists, and scientists have increasingly stressed the possibility that neuroscience can shed light on wider ethical questions.
Rees and Rose claim neuroethics is a neologism that emerged only at the beginning of the 21st century, largely through the Speech and Writing communications of ethicists and philosophers.
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Neurofibromatosis
Neurofibromatosis is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder. It encompasses a set of distinct genetic disorders that cause tumors to grow along types of nerves and, in addition, can affect the development of non-nervous tissues such as bones and skin. The tumors can grow anywhere on or in the body.
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Neuromuscular junction
A neuromuscular junction is the synapse or junction of the axon terminal of a motoneuron with the motor end plate, the highly-excitable region of muscle plasma membrane responsible for initiation of action potentials across the muscle's surface, ultimately causing the muscle to contract.
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Neuron
Neurons are a major class of cell in the nervous system. In vertebrates, neurons are found in the brain, the spinal cord and in the nerves and ganglion of the peripheral nervous system. Their main role is to process and transmit information. Morphologically, a prototypical neuron is composed of a Soma , a dendrite and an axon.
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Neuroptera
The insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, Mantidfly, antlions, and their relatives. The order contains some 4000 species. Traditionally, the order also included alderfly, fishfly, dobsonfly, and snakefly, but these are now generally considered to be separate orders.
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Neuroscience
Neuroscience is a science that studies the neuroanatomy, function, neural development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system. Traditionally it is seen as a branch of biological sciences.
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Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery is the surgery discipline focused on treating those central nervous system and peripheral nervous system diseases amenable to mechanical intervention.
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Neurotransmitter
Neurotransmitters are chemistry that are used to relay, amplify and modulate electrical signals between a neuron and another cell. According to the prevailing beliefs of the 1960s, a chemical can be classified as a neurotransmitter if it meets the following conditions:
* It is chemical synthesis endogenously, that is, within the presynaptic neuron;
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Neutrino
The neutrino is an elementary particle. It has half-integer spin and is therefore a fermion. All neutrinos observed to date have left-handed chirality . Although they had been considered massless for many years, recent experiments have shown their mass to be non-zero.
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Neutron
In physics, the neutron is a subatomic particle with no net electric charge and a mass of 939.573 MeV/speed of light . Its spin is . Its antiparticle is called the antineutron. The neutron, along with the proton, is a nucleon.
The atomic nucleus of most atoms consists of protons and neutrons.
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Neutron star
A neutron star is one of the few possible compact star of stellar evolution. A neutron star is formed from the gravitational collapse remnant of a massive star after a Supernova#Type II, Supernova#Type Ib and Ic, or Supernova#Type Ib and Ic supernova.
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Neva River
Neva is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the city of Saint Petersburg to the Gulf of Finland. Despite its modest length, it is the third largest river in Europe in terms of average discharge .
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Nevada
Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States United States, best known for its widespread legalization of gambling and gaming industry.
Nevada's nickname is "The Silver State" or "The Sagebrush State", and the state's motto is "All for Our Country".
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Nevermore
Nevermore is a North America Progressive Metal band from Seattle, Washington assembled in 1991. Their precise musical style is debated by fans and critics alike. The band incorporates elements from styles such as death metal, speed metal, and progressive metal metal into their songs, and also makes use of acoustic guitars and a wide range of vocal styles.
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Nevers
Nevers is a commune in France of central France, the prfecture of the Nivre dpartement in France, in the former Provinces of France of Nivernais. Nevers is located 260 km S.S.E. of Paris.
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Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a Conservative and Unionist Party United Kingdom politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940.
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Nevis
Nevis is an island in the Caribbean near the top of the Lesser Antilles archipelago, about 220 miles southeast of Puerto Rico and 50 miles west of Antigua. The 36 square-mile island is part of the Leeward Islands and is located at latitude 17.15N and longitude 62.58W.
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Nevus
Nevus is a general term that refers to a number of different, usually benign, pigmented lesions of the skin. Most birthmarks and Mole fall into the category of nevi.
* mole: Nevus cells are normally localized in the basal layer of the Epidermis.
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New Amsterdam
New Amsterdam was the name of the 17th century town which grew outside of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the New Netherland territory which was situated between 38 and 42 degrees latitude as a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic since 1624. The province's first settlement was established on Governors Island in 1624 from where Fort Amsterdam was commenced in 1625.
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New Amsterdams
The New Amsterdams is a Lawrence, Kansas-based United States indie rock band featuring Matthew Pryor, formerly of The Get Up Kids.
They debuted in 2000 with their debut full-length, Never You Mind, on Vagrant Records. This album seemed to have more of a rock and roll edge than their later albums.
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New Britain
New Britain, formerly Neu Pommern, is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea, separated from New Guinea by Dampier Strait, and has Rabaul/Kokopo and Kimbe as its two main towns.
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New Brunswick
New Brunswick , is one of Canada three Maritime provinces, and the only officially bilingual province in the country. Its capital is Fredericton. The provincial Department of Finance estimates that the province's population in 2005 is 758,000 .
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New Caledonia
New Caledonia, the foreshortened form of Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies , is a "sui generis collectivity" of France, made up of a main island and several smaller islands. It is located in the subregion of Melanesia in the southwest Pacific Ocean.
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New Deal
The New Deal is the name given to the series of programs implemented between 1933-37 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt with the goal of relief, recovery and reform of the United States economy during the Great Depression in the United States. The name was derived to differentiate it from President Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal.
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New Delhi
New Delhi , an urban area within the metropolis of Delhi, is the capital of the Republic of India and the seat of the Government of India. It is one of the three municipal corporations of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
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New Edition
New Edition is an United States R&B group formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1980, that was most popular during the 1980s. Guided by record producer Maurice Starr, New Edition was originally a Jackson 5-esque collection of five young African American teenage singers, including lead singers Ralph Tresvant and Bobby Brown, and vocalists Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ronnie DeVoe.
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New England
New England is a region of the United States located in the northeastern corner of the country. It comprises the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The region's most populous city, as well as its business and cultural center, is Boston, Massachusetts.
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New England Aster
New England Aster is found throughout northeastern, central and northwestern North America. The plant grows up to 2 metres with stout, hairy stem. Flower heads are 2.5 - 5 cm wide, with yellow disk flowers and white through pink and purple ray flowers. Leaves are clasping, lanceolate, and generally entire.
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New English Bible
The New English Bible was a fresh translation of the Bible into modern English directly from the original Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts; with the New Testament being published in 1961, and the Old Testament, along with the Apocrypha, being published in 1970.
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New Forest
The New Forest is an area of southern England which includes the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heath and old-growth forest in the heavily-populated south east of England. The contiguous New Forest habitat covers south west Hampshire and some of south Wiltshire and east Dorset.
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New Guinea
New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area island, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded around 5th millennium BC. The name Papua has also been long-associated with the island: this is discussed further under "#History", below.
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New Hampshire
The State of New Hampshire is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state ranks 46th of the 50 states in land area and 41st in population. It was one of the Thirteen Colonies and became the ninth state admitted to the Union. New Hampshire was also the first U.S.
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New Hebrides
New Hebrides was the colonial name for an island group in the Pacific Ocean that now forms the nation of Vanuatu. The New Hebrides were colonized by both the United Kingdom and France in the 18th century shortly after Captain James Cook visited the island.
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New Ireland
New Ireland, formerly New Mecklenburg is an island in the Pacific, and the most northeastern Provinces of Papua New Guinea of Papua New Guinea. It is located at .
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is the fourth smallest, the tenth most populous, and the most densely populated state in the US. The state is named after the British island of Jersey in the English Channel.
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New Latin
New Latin is a post-medieval version of Latin, now used primarily in International Scientific Vocabulary cladistics and systematics. The term came into widespread use towards the end of the 1890s among linguists and scientists.
Classicss use the term "Neo-Latin" to describe the use of the Latin language for any purpose, scientific or literary, after the Renaissance , although, for example, the editors of the I Tatti Renaissance Library call their Renaissance Latin language texts N
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New Mexico
New Mexico is a Southwestern United States state in the United States of America. Over its relatively long history it has also been occupied by Native Americans in the United States populations and has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, a province of Mexico and a United States territory.
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New moon
The New Moon is the lunar phase that occurs when the Moon, in its monthly orbital motion around Earth, lies between Earth and the Sun, and is therefore in conjunction with the Sun as seen from Earth. At this time, the illuminated half of the Moon faces directly toward the Sun, and the dark or unilluminated portion of the Moon faces directly toward Earth, so that the Moon is invisible as seen from Earth.
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New Netherland
New Netherland , 16141674, was the territory on the eastern coast of North America in the 17th century which stretched from latitude 38 to 45 degrees North as originally explored by Henry Hudson and claimed for the Republic of the Seven United Provinces.
A private commercial venture since patents were issued by the Estates-General of the Netherlands in 1614, New Netherland became a province of the Dutch Republic in 1624.
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New River Gorge Bridge
The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel-arch bridge, near Fayetteville, West Virginia, West Virginia; with a length of 3030 feet, it was for many years the longest in the world of that type. Its arch extends 1700 feet. Part of US Highway 19, it is crossed by an average of 17,000 motor vehicles per day.
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New Siberian Islands
The New Siberian Islands are an archipelago, located to the North of the East Siberian coast between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea north of the Sakha Republic.
The New Siberian Islands proper, or Anzhu Islands, covering a land area of about 29,000 km, consist of
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New South Wales
New South Wales is Australia's most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland. It was founded in 1788 and originally comprised much of the Australian mainland, as well as Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.
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New Testament
The New Testament , sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, and sometimes also New Covenant which is the literal translation of the Greek language, is the name given to the final portion of the Bible, the holy book of the Christianitys.
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New town
A new town, planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was designed from scratch, and grew up more or less following the plan. Several of the world's capital are planned cities, notably Washington, D.C. in the United States, Canberra in Australia, Braslia in Brazil, and Islamabad in Pakistan; see List of purpose-built capital cities.
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New World
The New World is one of the names used for the Americas. When the term originated in the late 15th century, the Americas were new to the Europeans, who previously thought of the world as consisting only of Europe, Asia, and Africathe Old World. The term "New World" should not be confused with "modern world"; the latter generally refers to a historical period, not a landmass.
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New World monkey
The New World monkeys are the four families of primates that are found in Central and South America: the Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae and Atelidae. The four families are ranked together as the Platyrrhini parvorder. They differ from other groupings of monkeys and primates, such as the Old World monkeys and the apes.
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New World oriole
The genus Icterus, New World orioles, is a group of birds in the Icteridae family. They are not related to the Old World orioles which are in the family Oriole, but are superficially strikingly similar in size, diet, behaviour and their yellow-and-black Feather, a good example of convergent evolution, and almost inevitably took the same vernacular name.
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New World porcupine
The New World porcupines are large terrestrial rodents, distinguished by their spiny covering from which they take their name. They are all stout animals, with blunt rounded heads, fleshy mobile snouts, and coats of thick cylindrical or flattened spines.
The porcupines are represented in the New World by the members of the family Erethizontidae, which have rooted molars, complete collar-bones, entire upper lips, tuberculated soles, no trace of a first front-toe, and four teats.
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New World vulture
The New World vulture family Cathartidae contains seven species found in warm and temperate areas of the Americas. It includes five vultures and two condors. Except Cathartes, all genus are monotypic.
The five species of vulture are:
*Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
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New World warbler
The New World warblers or wood-warblers are a group of small often colourful passerine birds restricted to the New World. They are not related to the Old World warblers or the Australian warblers.
Most are arboreal, but some, like the Ovenbird and the two waterthrushes, are more terrestrial.
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New Year's Day
New Year's Day is the first day of the year, in the Gregorian calendar. In modern times, it is January 1. In most countries, it is a holiday. It is a holy day to many of those who still use the Julian calendar, which includes followers of some of the Eastern Orthodox churches, and is celebrated on January 14 of the Gregorian calendar due to differences between the two calendars.
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New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is December 31, the final day of the Gregorian calendar year, and the day before New Year's Day,
New Year's Eve is a separate observance from the observance of New Year's Day. In 20th-century Western culture practice, the celebration involves partying until the moment of the transition of the year at midnight.
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New York
New York is a U.S. state in the northeastern United States United States. It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City. Because of the preponderance of the population concentrated in the southern portion around New York City, the state is often regionalized into Upstate New York and Downstate New York.
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New York City
New York City is the List of United States cities by population in the United States and the twelfth largest cities of the world, making it a major global city. Located in the U.S. state of New York, the city has a population of over 8.1 million within an area of 321 square miles, making it the most densely populated major city in North America.
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New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange , nicknamed the "Big Board," is a New York City-based stock exchange. It is the largest stock exchange in the United States by United States dollar volume and the second largest by number of companies listed. Its share volume was exceeded by that of NASDAQ during the 1990s, but the total market capitalization of companies listed on the NYSE is five times that of companies listed on NASDAQ.
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New Zealand
New Zealand is a country in the south-western Pacific Ocean consisting of two large islands and many Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island and the Chatham Islands. It is called Aotearoa in Maori language, which may be paraphrased as Land of the Long White Cloud.
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New Zealand dollar
The New Zealand dollar is the currency of New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, and the Pitcairn Islands since 1967. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively NZ$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies.
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New Zealand wren
The New Zealand "wrens", family Acanthisittidae, are tiny passerines restricted to New Zealand.
They are understood to form a distinct lineage within the passerines, but authorities differ on their assignment to the oscines or suboscines. DNA-DNA hybridisation studies suggest that they may, in fact, form a third suborder and have no living close relatives at all.
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Newfoundland
Newfoundland is a large island off the east coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canada province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Newfoundland is often referred to as "The Middle of the North Atlantic", but it is actually more than 1000 km away from it.
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Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador is a Provinces of Canada of Canada, the tenth to join the Canadian Confederation. Geographically, the province consists of the island of Newfoundland and the mainland Labrador, on Canada's Atlantic Ocean coast.
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Newmarket
Newmarket is a market town in the England county of Suffolk, approximately 65 miles north of London, which has grown and become famous because of its connection with race horses and racing.
Racing at Newmarket has been dated as far back as 1174, making it the earliest known racing venue of post-classical times.
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Newport
Newport is the third-largest City status in the United Kingdom in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is the cultural capital and largest urban area of the Traditional counties of Wales of Monmouthshire and governed by the unitary authority Newport City Council.
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NewS
NewS is a J-pop group from Johnny & Associates, which also produced groups such as SMAP, TOKIO, Kinki Kids, Arashi, and Tackey & Tsubasa.
NEWS is often noted for having six consecutive #1 singles on the Oricon weekly rankings.
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News conference
A news conference or press conference is a media event in which newsmakers invite journalists to hear them speak and, most often, ask questions.
There are two major reasons for holding a news conference. One is so that a newsmaker who gets many questions from reporters can answer them all at once rather than answering dozens of phone calls.
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News media
The news media refers to the section of the mass media that focuses on presenting current news to the public.
These include print media; broadcast media, and increasingly Internet-based mass media.
Usually the term includes all working journalists and is often used by those who would make generalizations about the product of "most" journalists, for example that journalists who work for large media corporations, or who are based in New York City or Washington, D.C, harbor a liberal Media bias
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Newsagent
A newsagent, newsagency or newsstand, is a small business that sells newspapers, magazines, stationery, snacks and often items of local interest such as postcards and clothing emblazoned with sports team mascots. Newsstands typically operate in well-trafficked public places like city streets, trains tations and airports.
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Newsboys
Newsboys are a Contemporary Christian Music pop/rock band. The band was formed in Australia in 1985 and has been one of the most popular and best selling Christian music artists of the past decade.
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Newspaper
A newspaper is a publication containing news and information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. It may be general or special interest, most often published daily or weekly. The Johann Carolus was published in 1605, and the form has thrived even in the face of competition from technologies such as radio, television, and the internet.
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