Globalization is the term used to describe the changes in societies and the world economy that result from dramatically increased international trade and cultural exchange. It describes the increase of trade and investing due to the falling of barriers and the interdependence of countries. In specifically economic contexts, the term refers almost exclusively to the effects of trade, particularly trade liberalization or "free trade" (however, see "meanings" below). More broadly, the term refers to the overall integration, and resulting increase in interdependance, among global ...

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Supporters of democratic globalization can be labelled pro-globalists. They consider that the first phase of globalization, which was market-oriented, should be completed by a phase of building global political institutions representing the will of world citizens. The difference with other globalists is that they do not define in advance any ideology to orient this will, which should be left to the free choice of those citizens via a democratic process. Supporters of free trade point out that economic theories of comparative advantage ...

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Is there a global mind? Could it be detected quantitatively? In an empirical approach to this question, over the last decade a half-dozen researchers have examined the outputs of electronic noise-based, truly random number generators (RNG) before, during and after highly focused or coherent group events. The group events studied included intense psychotherapy sessions, captivating theater presentations, religious rituals, popular sports competitions like World Cup Soccer, and high interest television broadcasts like the Academy Awards 1. Results of over 100 experiments conducted during such events suggest that mind and matter may be entangled in fundamental ways, and in particular that focused mental attention in groups appears to be associated with negentropic fluctuations in streams of truly random data.

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Anti-globalization is a term most commonly used to describe the political stance of people and groups who oppose current global trade agreements and trade-governing bodies such as the World Trade Organization. “Anti-globalization” is considered by some to be a social movement, while others consider it to be an umbrella term that encompasses a number of separate social movements. In either case, participants are united in opposition to the current global economic and trade systems, which they say undermine the environment, labor rights, nation ...

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Anti-globalization - Opposition to International Financial Institutions and Transnational Corporations Anti-globalization - Anti-Globalization as Anti-Neoliberalism Anti-globalization - Anti-War” Development Anti-globalization - Appropriateness of the term Anti-globalization - Influences on the Anti-globalization Movement
Anti-globalization - Organization Anti-globalization - Main Demonstrations and appointments
Anti-globalization - J18 Anti-globalization - Seattle/N30 Anti-globalization - Law enforcement reaction Anti-globalization - Genoa Anti-globalization - International Social Forums
Anti-globalization - Influence on the developing world Anti-globalization - Criticisms
Anti-globalization - Disorganization Anti-globalization - Addressing problems incorrectly Anti-globalization - Failure to propose solutions to problems Anti-globalization - Violence Anti-globalization - Motivations of movement Anti-globalization - Lack of evidence for claims
Anti-globalization - Mobilizations
Anti-globalization - Opponents of global corporatization Anti-globalization - Opponents of anti-globalization pro-globalists Anti-globalization - Books on anti-globalization

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Although the process known as globalization has visibly taken hold during the twentieth century, it has distinct historical antecedents. From the dawn of humanity, the world has grown increasingly integrated. Despite the admittedly fluid nature of history, a number of historians have divided the process of globalization into sections. Archaic Globalization Proto Globalization Modern Globalization The process of globalization is influenced by a number of empires. Among them are some of note:

History of Globalization - The Dutch Empire
History of Globalization - Dutch Reformed Church History of Globalization - VOC or Dutch East India Company History of Globalization - Merchant Warriors History of Globalization - New Amsterdam
History of Globalization - The British Empire
History of Globalization - British East India Company
History of Globalization - The Ottoman Empire History of Globalization - The Portuguese History of Globalization - The Mongol Empire History of Globalization - Authors and citations

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Global warming is an increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. The term is also used for the scientific theory of anthropogenic global warming, which attributes much of the recent observed and projected global warming to a human-induced intensification of the greenhouse effect. On this theory, the increased volumes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released mainly by the burning of fossil fuels, and, to a lesser extent, land clearing and agriculture, are the primary sources of warming. ...

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Global warming - Effects on ecosystems Global warming - Destabilisation of ocean currents Global warming - Environmental refugees Global warming - Spread of disease Global warming - Financial effects Global warming - Possible beneficial effects
Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming

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The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, is one of the most significant of current research projects into parapsychology. Based at Princeton, the project researches into the theory that the human consciousness may create an external field which is not detectable via conventional means. Working on the assumption that while the field of an individual's consciousness is not measurable, the combined field of a large number of people who are experiencing similar thoughts or feelings ...

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Alter-globalization (or altermondialization from the French altermondialisme) is the name of a social movement which supports the international integration of globalization but advocates that values of democracy, economic justice, environmental protection, and human rights be put ahead of purely economic concerns. The term is considered distinct from the more widely-used word 'anti-globalization', which is thought to be pejorative by members of the movement. The name may be taken as coming from the popular slogan of this movement: 'Anoth ...

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Global Consciousness is the idea that there is a collective consciousness in which all individual consciousness participates in, in some ways comparable with an electromagnetic field. There are many hypotheses as to how the field might operate. A project in Princeton University called Global Consciousness Project is created to study it. It was started in 1998 by Roger D. Nelson. There is a hypothesis that the global consciousness has been getting stronger for the last decade because of communications networks which creat ...

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CanWest Global Communications Corp. TSX: CGS.SV TSX: CGS.NV NYSE: CWG is Canada's largest international media company. The company's head office is situated in Winnipeg, Manitoba. CanWest Global Communications - Operations. See also: List of assets owned by CanWest Global Communications CanWest MediaWorks is the company's Canadian operating unit. It consists of: Global Television Network, a Canadian television network which reaches over 94% of the English-spea ...

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Global title translation is the SS7 equivalent to IP routing. Translation examines the destination address (e.g. the number being called) and deciding how to identify it over the telephone network. This process can include global title analysis, which is the act of looking up the number and finding a result address, and global title modification. It is possible for the result of Global Title Translation to be Route on SSN. This means that, instead of the Global Title routing, lower level MTP routing ...

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The structure of a global title is officially defined in the SCCP standard (Q.713), and further extended in the supporting numbering plan standards. The value of a global title is comprised of a sequence of attributes which modify the address value. To summarize: Global Title - Global Title Format. A global title can be in a variety of formats, most of which are each defined in separate standards. The format parameter indicates which of the available formats are in use. Each format can include any of the subsequent parameters.See also:

Global Title, Global Title - Overview, Global Title - Structure of the global title value, Global Title - Global Title Format, Global Title - Numbering Plan Indicator, Global Title - Type of Number, Global Title - Translation Type, Global Title - Global title translation, Global Title - Global Title Analysis, Global Title - Routing Structure, Global Title - Global Title Modification, Global Title - Global Title Routing in Mobile Networks, Global Title - Hybrid Number Routing Except North America, Global Title - IMSI Routing North America, Global Title - Routing of mobility messages on the ANSI / ITU Boundary

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The climate system varies both through natural, "internal" processes as well as in response to variations in external "forcing" from both human and non-human causes, including changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun (Milankovitch cycles), solar activity, and volcanic emissions as well as greenhouse gases. (See Climate change for further discussion of these forcing processes.) Climatologists accept that the earth has warmed recently. The cause or cause ...

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The climate system varies both through natural, "internal" processes as well as in response to variations in external "forcing" from both human and non-human causes, including changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun (Milankovitch cycles), solar activity, and volcanic emissions as well as greenhouse gases. Climatologists accept that the earth has warmed recently but the cause or causes of this change is somewhat more controversial, especially outside the scientific community. Atmospheric scientists know that adding carbon dioxide ( ...

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Global optimization - Deterministic. The most successful are: Branch and bound methods Methods based on real algebraic geometry Global optimization - Stochastic thermodynamics. Several Monte-Carlo-based algorithms exist: Simulated annealing Direct Monte-Carlo sampling Stochastic tunneling Parallel tempering Monte-Carlo with minimization Global op ...

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Main articles: attribution of recent climate change and scientific opinion on climate change The climate system varies both through natural, "internal" processes as well as in response to variations in external "forcing" from both human and non-human causes, including changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun (Milankovitch cycles), solar activity, and volcanic emissions as well as greenhouse gases. Climatologists accept that the earth has warmed recently but the cause or causes of this change is somewhat more ...

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The predicted effects of global warming are many and various, both for the environment and for human life. The primary effect of global warming is increasing carbon dioxide and increasing global average surface temperature. From this flow a variety of secondary effects, including sea level rise, impacts on agriculture, reductions in the ozone layer (see above), increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, and the spread of disease. In some cases, the effects may already be being experienced, although it is impossible to attri ...

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The predicted effects of global warming are many and various, both for the environment and for human life. The primary effect of global warming is increasing carbon dioxide and increasing global average surface temperature. From this flow a variety of secondary effects, including sea level rise, impacts on agriculture, reductions in the ozone layer (see below), increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, and the spread of disease. In some cases, the effects may already be being experienced, although it is impossible to attri ...

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Global warming, Global warming - Overview, Global warming - Warming of the Earth, Global warming - Causes of global warming, Global warming - Greenhouse gas emissions, Global warming - Alternative theories, Global warming - Climate models, Global warming - Issues, Global warming - Public controversy, Global warming - Effects, Global warming - Effects on ecosystems, Global warming - Destabilisation of ocean currents, Global warming - Environmental refugees, Global warming - Spread of disease, Global warming - Financial effects, Global warming - Possible beneficial effects, Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming

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The predicted effects of global warming are many and various, both for the environment and for human life. The primary effect of global warming is increasing carbon dioxide and increasing global average surface temperature. From this flow a variety of secondary effects, including sea level rise, impacts on agriculture, reductions in the ozone layer (see above), increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, and the spread of disease. In some cases, the effects may already be being experienced, although it is impossible to attri ...

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Global warming, Global warming - Overview, Global warming - Warming of the Earth, Global warming - Causes of global warming, Global warming - Greenhouse gas emissions, Global warming - Alternative theories, Global warming - Climate models, Global warming - Issues, Global warming - Public controversy, Global warming - Effects, Global warming - Effects on ecosystems, Global warming - Impact on Glaciers, Global warming - Destabilisation of ocean currents, Global warming - Environmental refugees, Global warming - Spread of disease, Global warming - Financial effects, Global warming - Possible beneficial effects, Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming

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