Assimilation (from Latin assimilatio; "to render similar") may refer to more than one article: Assimilation (linguistics), a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound Assimilation (biology), the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the cus ...

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Assimilation (from similis, lat. = similar), in biology, designates the process of the transformation of external substances and materials into substances and materials internal to the body. Examples of assimilation are: By mean of photosynthesis, carbon dioxide and water are transformed into a number of organic molecules in plant cells. Nitrogen fixation from the soil into organic molecules by symbiotic bacteria which live in the roots of certain plants, such as Leguminosae. The absorption of nutrients into the body after digestion in the intestine a ...

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• Assimilation biology - Related topics

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The issue of assimilation is a topic of heated debate between and inside the Csángó, Hungarian and Romanian communities. Most people agree that the process of assimilation was, to some degree, natural: the Csángó has been a small isolated rural community with no Hungarian language education system of their own and very few Hungarian-speaking intellectuals. Many Csángó have associated the Hungarian language with backwardness (Romanian was the language of city dwellers, business, industry, church and state) and advocated an aggressive po ...

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Csángó, Csángó - History, Csángó - Language, Csángó - Assimilation, Csángó - Population, Csángó - Notes

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Initially, the Borg were a mysterious group of marauders that snatched entire starships or took over entire planets and societies in order to collect and assimilate their technology, being less interested in individual lifeforms (TNG: "Q Who?"). In their second appearance, "The Best of Both Worlds", they began to rather crudely and frighteningly assimilate individuals – namely, Picard – into the collective by surgically altering them. Thereafter, incorporation of different lifeforms into thei ...

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Borg, Borg - Overview, Borg - History, Borg - Early contacts with the Federation, Borg - The Enterprise-D and Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Borg - Encounters with the Enterprise-E and Voyager, Borg - Assimilation, Borg - Nanoprobes, Borg - Borg species identification, Borg - Origin of the Borg, Borg - Borg from V'ger theory, Borg - Nanobot theory, Borg - Famous maxim, Borg - Pronunciation variations, Borg - All Borg episodes to date, Borg - Star Trek: The Next Generation, Borg - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Borg - Star Trek: Voyager, Borg - Star Trek: Enterprise, Borg - The Borg in computer games, Borg - The Borg as a cultural allusion

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Cultural Assimilation, or assimilation (also had other meanings) for short, is an intense process of conistent integration whereby memebers of an ethno-cultural grioup, typically immigrants, or other minority groups, are "absorbed" into an established, generally larger community. This presumes a loss of all characteristics which make the newcomers different. A region where assimilation is o ...

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• Cultural assimilation - Immigration
• Cultural assimilation - Minority cultures
• Cultural assimilation - Named cases
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Assimilation is a regular and frequent sound change process by which a phoneme changes to match an adjacent phoneme in a word. A common example of assimilation is vowels being 'nasalized' before nasal consonants as it is difficult to change the shape of the mouth sufficiently quickly. If the phoneme changes to match the preceding phoneme, it is progressive assimilation (also left-to-right, perseveratory, or preservative assimilation). If the phoneme changes to match the following phoneme, it is re ...

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Americanization (or Americanisation) is the term used for the influence the United States of America has on the culture of other countries, substituting their culture with American culture. When encountered unwillingly or perforce, it has a negative connotation; when sought voluntarily, it has a positive connotation. Americanization can also refer to the process of immigrants to the United States becoming American. This process often involves learning American English and adjusting to Americ ...

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• Americanization - Media
• Americanization - Anime
• Americanization - Expansion of American culture
• Americanization - Assimilation of immigrants

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Isis is a female goddess in the Egyptian belief. She was most prominent mythologically as the wife of Horus, or, in later periods, as the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and was worshipped as the archetypal wife and mother. Much later, her greatly changed cult became very prominent internationally, and she was worshipped throughout the ancient world as Isis-Aphrodite. Her name literally means (female) of throne, and the main hierogliph in her name, and the em ...

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• Isis - Name and pronunciation
• Isis - Worship
• Isis - Temples
• Isis - Priesthood
• Isis - Associations
• Isis - Titles
• Isis - Iconography
• Isis - Mythology
• Isis - Early Isis
• Isis - Sister-wife to Osiris
• Isis - Assimilation of Hathor
• Isis - Mother of Horus
• Isis - Magic
• Isis - Assimilation of Mut
• Isis - Mother of the Pharaoh
• Isis - Mourner and protector of the Dead
• Isis - Assimilation of other deities
• Isis - Isis outside Egypt
• Isis - Links to Christianity
• Isis - Isis in modern culture

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 Atlantic-Congo   Volta-Congo     Benue-Congo     Defoid      Yoruboid       Edekiri        Yorùbá  Yoruba (native name Yorúbà) is a dialect continuum of sub-Saharan Africa. The native tongue of the Yoruba people, it is spoken, among other languages, in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and traces of it are found among communities in Br ...

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• Yoruba language - History
• Yoruba language - Dialects
• Yoruba language - Standard Yoruba
• Yoruba language - Phonology
• Yoruba language - Vowels
• Yoruba language - Consonants
• Yoruba language - Tone
• Yoruba language - Assimilation and elision
• Yoruba language - Grammar
• Yoruba language - Writing system
• Yoruba language - Tone markings
• Yoruba language - Notes and references
• Yoruba language - Notes
• Yoruba language - References

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Weather forecasting is the application of current technology and science to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location. The history of weather forecasting goes back millennia, however the techniques used have changed significantly since then. Today, weather forecasts are made by collecting as much data as possible about the current state of the atmosphere (particularly the temperature, humidity and wind) and using understanding of atmospheric processes (through meteorology) to determine how the atmosphe ...

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• Weather forecasting - Data collection
• Weather forecasting - Data assimilation
• Weather forecasting - Numerical weather prediction NWP
• Weather forecasting - Model output post processing
• Weather forecasting - Presentation of weather forecasts
• Weather forecasting - Public information
• Weather forecasting - Air traffic
• Weather forecasting - Utility companies
• Weather forecasting - Private sector
• Weather forecasting - Meteorological agencies
• Weather forecasting - Commercial organisations

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Assimilation can have negative implications for national minorities or aboriginal cultures, in that after assimilation the distinctive features of the original culture will be minimized and may disappear altogether. This is especially true in situations where the institutions of the dominant culture initiate programs to assimilate or integrate minority cultures. The assumption of integration, the making into one society, lies behind efforts for affirmative action. Assimilation is or has been the official language policy of many countries around the world.

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Cultural assimilation, Cultural assimilation - Immigration, Cultural assimilation - Minority cultures, Cultural assimilation - Named cases, Cultural assimilation - Religious assimilation

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Many Orthodox Judaism rabbis refer to assimilation as a type of "Holocaust". Orthodox Rabbis also refer to abortion as the "Silent Holocaust" [9], and to conversion to Christianity as the "Silent Holocaust" [10]. Intermarriage, assimilation, apostasy (e.g. converting to Messianic Judaism or Buddhism), and abortions of Jewish babies are all described in terms of a "silent holocaust". "The Conservative Jewish approach actively promotes endogamy, the marriage of Jews with Jews, through youth and young adult programs, outreach to t ...

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Silent Holocaust, Silent Holocaust - A phrase not meant literally, Silent Holocaust - Jewish assimilationism, Silent Holocaust - Referring to intermarriage, Silent Holocaust - Usage by Orthodox rabbis

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In 553 BC Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, rebelled against his grandfather, the Mede King Astyages, son of Cyaxares; he finally won a decisive victory in 550 BC resulting in Astyages' capture by his own dissatisfied nobles, who promptly turned him over to the triumphant Cyrus. Thus were the Medes subjected to their close kin, the Persians. In the new empire they retained a prominent position; in honor and war, they stood next to the Persians; their court ceremony was adopted by the new sovereigns, who in the summer months resided in Ecbatan ...

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Medes, Medes - The six Mede tribes in Herodotus, Medes - Early historical references to Medes, Medes - The Mede Empire, Medes - Persian Dominance and Assimilation, Medes - Post Achaemenid Media, Medes - Median language, Medes - External link

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Main article Data assimilation During the data assimilation process, information gained from the observations is used in conjunction with a numerical model's most recent forecast for the time that observations were made (since this contains information from previous observations) to produce the meteorological analysis. This is the best estimate of the current state of the atmosphere. It is a three dimensional representati ...

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Weather forecasting, Weather forecasting - Data collection, Weather forecasting - Data assimilation, Weather forecasting - Numerical weather prediction NWP, Weather forecasting - Model output post processing, Weather forecasting - Presentation of weather forecasts, Weather forecasting - Public information, Weather forecasting - Air traffic, Weather forecasting - Utility companies, Weather forecasting - Private sector, Weather forecasting - Meteorological agencies, Weather forecasting - Commercial organisations

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Comment and contextualization about archibishop Llorente books: Those four documents are taken from a Spanish would-be encyclopædia that started and ended with the four tomos dedicated to the Basque Provinces. Archbishop Llorente of Toledo even denied Alfonso X's own Seven Partidas (a compendium of Christian Iberian fueros made around the year 1220) or credited to the Castilian king many fueros first given by the Navarrese. Certainly during the Godoy régime Castilian historiography worked very hard ...

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Fuero, Fuero - Regional Fueros, Fuero - Private law, Fuero - Fuero philological meaning assimilable to Right, Fuero - John Adams' view of the Forua of Bizkaia

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A policy of assimilation is one that uses measures to accelerate the downsizing of one or more linguistic minority group(s). The ultimate goal of such policies is to foster national unity inside a state. Jurisdictions having such a policy: Afghanistan - Brazil - Burma - Cyprus - East Timor - Greece - Indonesia - Iran - Iraq - Kosovo (Not a state; under United Nations protectorate and officially under sovereignty of Ser ...

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Language policy, Language policy - Overview, Language policy - Assimilation policies, Language policy - Non-intervention policies, Language policy - Differentiated legal statute policies, Language policy - Valorization of the official language policies, Language policy - Sectorial Policies, Language policy - Bilingualism or trilingualism policies, Language policy - Based on non-territorialized individual rights, Language policy - Based on territorialized individual rights, Language policy - Based on territorial rights, Language policy - Strategic multilingualism policies, Language policy - Linguistic internationalization policies, Language policy - Mixed linguistic policies, Language policy - Language boards, Language policy - Source

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While the exact cause of the decline of Buddhism in India is disputed, it is known that the mingling of Hindu and Buddhist societies in India and the rise of Hindu Vedanta movements began to compete against Buddhism. Many believe that Hinduism's adaptation to Buddhism resulted in Buddhism's rapid decline. Particularly important were Hinduism's revival movements such as Advaita Vedanta and the Bhakti movement, both of which showed the influence of Buddhist thought. Some scholars believe that the influence of Bhakti was synergistic with aggressive Muslim actions, in that Bh ...

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Decline of Buddhism in India, Decline of Buddhism in India - Integration with life in India, Decline of Buddhism in India - Political and military developments, Decline of Buddhism in India - Assimilation conversion and destruction, Decline of Buddhism in India - Survival of Buddhism in India, Decline of Buddhism in India - Revival

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After two or three generations in America the Germans assimilated to American customs--some of which they heavily influenced--and switched their language to English. As one scholar concludes, "The overwhelming evidence ... indicates that the German-American school was a bilingual one much (perhaps a whole generation or more) earlier than 1917, and that the majority of the pupils may have been English-dominant bilinguals from the early 1880's on." [1] By 1914 the older members were attending German language church services while the younger m ...

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German American, German American - First German Americans, German American - German Americans throughout the country, German American - Present Population, German American - Diversity, German American - Amish Mennonite and Hutterites, German American - German Americans Assimilation and World War I, German American - German Americans and World War II, German American - German-American Influence, German American - German-American presidents, German American - External link

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In the Tsarist Russia, assimilation, russification and conversion to the state religion of Orthodox Christianity were official policies. After coming to power and dealing severe blows to all religions, the Bolsheviks undertook efforts to form a new nation of the Soviet people (Советский народ). The Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union, one of the world's most ethnically diverse nations, with hundreds of distinct nationalities, was also home to a Jewish population of about two million before its disintegration in 199 ...

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History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Early History, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Tsarist Russia 1480s-1917, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Pogroms and the Pale of Settlement, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Jews and Bolshevism, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - After the October Revolution 1917-1991, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Under Lenin 1917-1924, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Under Stalin 1922-1953, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - After Stalin, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - The Soviet Union and Zionism, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - The collapse of the Soviet Union and emigration to Israel, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Jews in Russia today, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Jewish life, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Anti-semitism in post-Soviet Russia, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Assimilation trends, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Demographic data, History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union - Footnotes

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