Action-adventure games are video games that combine elements of the adventure game genre with various action elements. Nintendo is generally cited as originating the genre with The Legend of Zelda (1986); as a result, action-adventure games are simply called "adventure games" by many console gamers. In action-adventure games, while reflex-based actions are required (often revolving around combat or the avoidance thereof), the gameplay still follows a number of adventure game genre tropes (gathering items, exploration of ...

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A bolt-action firearm is typically a rifle that is manually operated (i.e. by hand), specifically that the opening and closing of the breech is controlled manually by a bolt. The term "action" references the means by which a firearm operates. Bolt action - Mechanics. Typically, the bolt consists of a tube of metal inside of which the firing mechanism is housed, and which has at the front or rear of the tube several metal knobs, or "lugs", which serve to lock the bolt in place. The operation can be done via ...

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• Bolt action - Mechanics
• Bolt action - Loading
• Bolt action - History

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The economic theory of collective action is concerned with the provision of public goods (and other collective consumption) through the collaboration of two or more individuals, and the impact of externalities on group behavior. The foundational work in collective action was Mancur Olson's 1965 book The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. The theory explores the market failures where individual consumer rationality and firms' profit-seeking do not lead to efficient provision of the public goods, i.e. where another level of p ...

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• Collective action - Exploitation of the great by the small
• Collective action - Institutional design
• Collective action - Joint products
• Collective action - Club
• Collective action - Federated structure

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Cowboy Action Shooting, also known as Western Action Shooting, is a competitive shooting sport which originated in California, USA, in the early 1980s. Cowboy Action Shooting is now practiced world wide with several sanctioning organizations including the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS), Western Action Shootists Association (WASA), National Congress of Old West Shooters (NCOWS) in ...

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• Cowboy action shooting - Classes

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Neuromuscular Integrative Action is a form of mind/body/spirit exercise that is aerobic and uses world music. The acronym, Nia, is pronounced 'nee-ya'. It was created in 1984 by Debbie and Carlos Rosas in Portland, Oregon. ...

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Militaries use the term killed in action (KIA) as a casualty classification. They generally use it to describe the homicides of their own forces by other hostile forces while in combat. Someone killed in action dies on the battlefield whereas someone who died of wounds (DOW) survived to reach a medical treatment facility. Common sense indicates that the side with the most KIA loses the conflict. However, cases exist where the opposite happens. The American Civil War provides one example of where the ...

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ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) is a campaigning public health charity working to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco smoking. ASH is for public health and tobacco control, not anti-smoker, aiming to be innovative and agenda setting but having policies that are always evidence-based. ASH was established in 1971 by the Royal College of Physicians following the failure of the UK Government to act ...

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For the computer science term, see Action at a distance (computer science). In physics, action at a distance is the interaction of two objects which are separated in space with no known mediator of the interaction. This term was used most often with early theories of gravity and electromagnetism to describe how an object could "know" the mass (in the case o ...

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• Action at a distance physics - Electricity
• Action at a distance physics - Gravity
• Action at a distance physics - Newton
• Action at a distance physics - Einstein
• Action at a distance physics - Quantum mechanics

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The Combat Action Badge (or CAB) is a military badge worn in the U.S. Army. The emblem features both a M9 bayonet and M67 grenade. The Combat Action Badge may be awarded to any soldier after the date of September 18, 2001 performing duties in an area where hostile fire pay or imminent danger pay is authorized, who is personally present and actively engaging or being engaged by the enemy, and performing satisfactorily in accordance with the prescribed rules of engagement. Award is not limited by one's branch of service or military occupational special ...

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Action! was a programming language, editor and in-memory 6502 compiler created by Clinton Parker working for Optimized Systems Software and running on the Atari 8-bit family of microcomputers. Its syntax was similar to that of ALGOL 68, and it was well-known for its speed. A library was available as a separate product called the Action! Toolkit. It was released in 1983 and officially sold as a cartridge and later "cracked" to disk. "ATR" format files containing a version which may be run on modern systems under emulation are av ...

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• Action programming language - Data Types
• Action programming language - Reserved keywords
• Action programming language - Programming
• Action programming language - Example code

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Action was a short-lived comedy series about a Hollywood producer named Peter Dragon, who is trying to recover from his last box-office failure. The series was critically praised for its irreverent, almost hostile, look at Hollywood culture but was a ratings failure. Thirteen episodes were produced but only ten episodes ran on the Fox Channel in 1999 before being cancelled. The remaining three episodes were event ...

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• Action TV series - Main cast
• Action TV series - Supporting characters
• Action TV series - Celebrity cameos
• Action TV series - Episode guide

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A Quaker Action Group was founded in Philadelphia during the summer of 1966 to "apply nonviolent direct action as a witness against the war in Vietnam". Founding member Lawrence Scott was a Quaker and radical pacifist who had worked for the American Friends Service Committee in the 1950s, but resigned in protest at what he saw as the AFSC's preference for words over action. AQAG, which was based in the peace committees of the Religious Society of Friends' New York and Philadelphia Yearly meetings, aimed to renew the So ...

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• A Quaker Action Group - External link

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The action of G on X is called transitive if for any two x, y in X there exists an g in G such that g·x = y; n-transitive if G acts transitively on Xn. sharply n-transitive if G acts regularly on Xn. faithful (or effective) if for any two different g, h ...

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Group action, Group action - Definition, Group action - Examples, Group action - Types of actions, Group action - Orbits and stabilizers, Group action - Morphisms and isomorphisms between G-sets, Group action - Continuous group actions, Group action - Strongly continuous group action and smooth vector, Group action - Generalizations

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The action of G on X is called transitive if for any two x, y in X there exists a g in G such that g·x = y; n-transitive if G acts transitively on Xn. sharply n-transitive if G acts regularly on Xn. faithful (or effective) if for any two different g, h ...

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Group action, Group action - Definition, Group action - Examples, Group action - Types of actions, Group action - Orbits and stabilizers, Group action - Morphisms and isomorphisms between G-sets, Group action - Continuous group actions, Group action - Strongly continuous group action and smooth vector, Group action - Generalizations

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ACTION's corporate colours are orange and blue, and its buses are traditionally painted orange with blue and white trim. The typical orange bus is a familiar sight in Canberra. However, several buses have been repainted over the years as advertising (including one with a dinosaur's skeleton prominently displayed). ACTION are also in the process of introducing 62 new buses into their fleet, which which will be painted green and white. The new buses are comparatively enviromentally friendly (hence "green"), more accessible to disabled p ...

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ACTION, ACTION - Buses, ACTION - Interchanges

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ACTION's corporate colours are orange and blue, and its buses are traditionally painted orange with blue and white trim. The typical orange bus is a familiar sight in Canberra. However, several buses have been repainted over the years as advertising (including one with a dinosaur's skeleton prominently displayed). ACTION are also in the process of introducing 62 new buses into their fleet, which will be painted green and white. The new buses are comparatively enviromentally friendly (hence "green"), more accessible to disabled patrons ...

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ACTION, ACTION - Buses, ACTION - Interchanges

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ACTION maintains a number of bus stops throughout Canberra. It also runs several bus interchanges, which act as hubs for the different districts of Canberra. With the rise of these four interchanges, the old termini at Ainslie and Eastlake/Kingston have been dismantled. There are four interchanges: Woden Interchange (opened 1972) serves Woden Valley and Weston Creek; Belconnen Interchange (opened 1979), serves the Belconnen and Gungahlin areas; Civic Interchange (opened 1982), in the City Centre, serves North and South Canberra; Tuggeranong Interchange, which cov ...

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ACTION, ACTION - Buses, ACTION - Interchanges

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One often considers continuous group actions: the group G is a topological group, X is a topological space, and the map G × X → X is continuous with respect to the product topology of G × X. The space X is also called a G-space in this case. This is indeed a generalization, since every group can be considered a topological group by using the discrete topology. All the concepts introduced above still work in this context, however we define ...

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Group action, Group action - Definition, Group action - Examples, Group action - Types of actions, Group action - Orbits and stabilizers, Group action - Morphisms and isomorphisms between G-sets, Group action - Continuous group actions, Group action - Strongly continuous group action and smooth vector, Group action - Generalizations

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If G is a group and X is a set, then a (left) group action of G on X is a binary function (where the image of and is written as ) which satisfies the following two axioms: for all and for every (e denotes the identity elemen ...

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Group action, Group action - Definition, Group action - Examples, Group action - Types of actions, Group action - Orbits and stabilizers, Group action - Morphisms and isomorphisms between G-sets, Group action - Continuous group actions, Group action - Strongly continuous group action and smooth vector, Group action - Generalizations

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While lever-action rifles were popular with civilians, they were not widely accepted by the military. Perhaps the most significant reason was that it is harder to fire a lever-action from the prone position than straight pull or bolt-action rifles. From other positions they were faster than either to reload, but the fact that they could not easily be fired from cover resulted in a gradual phase out from military use in the early 1900s. Lever actions are also generally fed from a tubular magazine, which limits the ammunition that can be used- ...

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Lever-action, Lever-action - History, Lever-action - Disadvantages, Lever-action - Calibers

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Non-Action (wu-wei): Taoist position that we should avoid all unnatural action and act passively and spontaneously.

 (See also: Non-Action, Eastern Philosophy, Body Mind and Soul)