The UN Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy, and other factors for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. The index was developed in 1990 by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq, and has been used since 1993 by the United Nations Development Programme in its annual report. The HDI measures the average achievements in a country in three basic dimensions of human development: A long and h ...

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Human development, Human development - Biological development, Human development - Physical stages, Human development - Physical development milestones, Human development - Cognitive development

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The Human Development Index (HDI) represents the average of the following three indices: Life Expectancy Index = Education Index = Adult Literacy Index (ALI) = Gross Enrolment Index (GEI) = GDP Index = LE: Life expectancy ALR: Adult literacy r ...

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Kundalini Yoga

Thus far our soul psychotherapy has drawn from universal spiritual principles of gratitude, forgiveness, poignant impermanence, and the like, while remaining largely within the precincts of conventional developmental theory. In this chapter I broaden our scope more toward the body by delving into the farther reaches of human development as is becoming known in the West under the heading of kundalini yoga.

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The Human Development Index (HDI) represents the average of the following three indices: Life Expectancy Index = Education Index = Adult Literacy Index (ALI) = Gross Enrollment Index (GEI) = GDP Index = LE: Life expectancy ALR: Adult literacy ra ...

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Human Development Index, Human Development Index - Method used to calculate the Human Development Index, Human Development Index - 2005 report, Human Development Index - Top thirty countries, Human Development Index - Bottom ten countries, Human Development Index - Top/bottom three countries by region, Human Development Index - Past top countries, Human Development Index - Countries not included

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The report for 2005 shows that, in general, the HDI for countries around the world is improving, with two major exceptions: Sub-Saharan Africa and Post-Soviet states, both of which showed steady decline. HIV/AIDS is seen as the principal cause of the decline in the first group, while worsening education, economies, and mortality rates caused declines in the HDIs amongst the latter group. Most of the data used for the 2005 report, indicating country HDIs for 2003, are derived largely from 2003 or earlier. The top ten countries are in E ...

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The report for 2005 shows that, in general, the HDI for countries around the world is improving, with two major exceptions: Sub-Saharan Africa and Post-Soviet states, both of which showed steady decline. HIV/AIDS is seen as the principal cause of the decline in the first group, while worsening education, economies, and mortality rates caused declines in the HDIs amongst the latter group. Most of the data used for the 2005 report, indicating country HDIs for 2003, are derived largely from 2003 or earlier. The top ten countries are in E ...

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Human Development Index, Human Development Index - Method used to calculate the Human Development Index, Human Development Index - 2005 report, Human Development Index - Top thirty countries, Human Development Index - Bottom ten countries, Human Development Index - Top/bottom three countries by region, Human Development Index - Past top countries, Human Development Index - Countries not included

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The following countries are not ranked in the 2005 Human Development Index. Liberia Somalia Afghanistan North Korea Iraq Republic of China (Taiwan) Andorra Liechtenstein Monaco San Marino Vatican City Serbia and Montenegro Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia
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The Human Potential Movement came out of the social and intellectual milieu of the 1960s and was formed to promote the cultivation of extraordinary potential believed to be largely untapped in most people. The movement is premised on the belief that through the development of human potential, humans can experience an exceptional quality of life filled with happiness, creativity, and fulfillment. A corollary belief is often that those who begin to unleash this potential will find their actions within society to be directed towards help ...

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A skull, or cranium, is a bony structure of Craniates which serves as the general framework for a head. The skull supports the structures of the face and protects the brain against injury. Skull - Humans. In humans, the adult skull is normally made up of 28 bones. Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, rigid articulations permitting very little movement. Eight bones form the neurocranium (braincase), a protective vault of bone surrounding ...

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A child (plural: children) is a young human. Depending on context it may mean someone who is not yet an adult, or someone who has not yet reached puberty (someone who is prepubescent). Child is also a counterpart of parent: adults are the children of their parents despite their maturation beyond infancy; for example "Benjamin, aged 46, is the child of Tobias, aged 73". Similarly in a generalized sense, see child node. Child - Gender. A female child is called a girl ...

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Androgen is the generic term for any natural or synthetic compound, usually a steroid hormone, that stimulates or controls the development and maintenance of masculine characteristics in vertebrates by binding to androgen receptors. This includes the activity of the accessory male sex organs and development of male secondary sex characteristics. Androgens, which were first discovered in 1936, are also called androgenic hormones or testoids. Androgens are also the original anabolic steroids. They are also the precursor of ...

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Androgen - Insensitivity to androgen in humans

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Teeth—singular tooth—are hard structures found in the jaws of many vertebrates. They have various structures to allow them to fulfill their many different purposes. The primary function of teeth is to tear and chew food and in some animals, particularly carnivores, as a weapon. The roots of the teeth are covered by gums. Teeth are covered by a protective structure, called the enamel, that helps to prevent cavities on the teeth. Adult teeth naturally darken as the person matures, the pulp within the tooth shrinks and dentin ...

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Tooth - Plaque Tooth - Caries Cavities Tooth - Foods
Tooth - Tooth care Tooth - Dentures and false teeth Tooth - Abnormalities of the dentition Tooth - Development of teeth Tooth - Facts about teeth in non-human animals

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Insects are invertebrate animals of the Class Insecta, the largest and (on land) most widely distributed taxon within the Phylum Arthropoda. Insects comprise the most diverse group of animals on the earth, with over 800,000 species described—more than all other animal groups combined: "Indeed, in no one of her works has Nature more fully displayed her exhaustless ingenuity," Pliny exclaimed. Insects may be found in nearly all environments on the planet, although only a small number of species have adapted to life in the ocean ...

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The cerebral cortex is a brain structure in vertebrates, including humans. It is the outermost layer of the cerebrum and has a grey color. (Hence the name "grey matter". Grey matter is formed by neurons and their fibers, and white matter below the grey matter of the cortex is formed predominantly by nerve fibers interconnecting cortical areas with each other and with subcortical structures.) The human cerebral co ...

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Human development refers to all forms of development above, often in the context of clinical or developmental psychology, or as human development theory (in economics, an outgrowth of welfare economics). Both the psychological and economic fields share a special concern with education and language fluency including literacy and numeracy, and with identification and development of more unique talents into the eco ...

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Child, Child - Gender, Child - Development, Child - Cognitive development, Child - Notable child prodigies, Child - Human development

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Uneconomic growth, in welfare economics, human development theory and some forms of ecological economics, is economic growth which reflects or creates a decline in human well-being. The concept is variously attributed to Herman Daly and Marilyn Waring, though other theorists are also often credited: For instance, in Daly's 1999 Feasta Lecture, "uneconomic growth in theory and in fact", he cites John Ruskin, then William Nordhaus and James Tobin as having identified the issue. His own colleagues John Cobb and Clifford Cobb devel ...

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Urticating hairs are one of the primary defense mechanisms used by tarantulas. This term refers to the barbed hairs that cover the dorsal and posterior surface of the tarantula's abdomen . Many tarantula species will frequently kick hairs off their abdomens, directing them toward potential attackers. These hairs can embed themselves in the other animal's skin or eyes, thus inducing physical irritation. Urticating hair - Development of Urticating Hair. Urticating hairs do not appear at birth bu ...

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The heart (Latin cor) is a hollow, muscular organ that pumps blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. The term cardiac means "related to the heart", from the Greek kardia (καρδια) for "heart". Heart - The human heart. Heart - Early development. The human embryonic heart (EHR) begins beating at approximately 21 days after conception, or five weeks after the last normal menstrual period (LMP), which is the date normally used to ...

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Heart - The human heart
Heart - Early development Heart - Structure Heart - The cardiac cycle Heart - Regulation of the cardiac cycle Heart - Other physiological functions
Heart - Diseases and treatments Heart - First aid Heart - The hearts of other animals
Heart - Heartbeat Heart - Food use
Heart - As an icon

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Adephaga Archostemata Myxophaga Polyphaga See subgroups of the order Coleoptera Beetles are one of the main groups of insects. Their order, Coleoptera (meaning "sheathed wing"), has more species in it than any other order in the entire animal kingdom. Forty percent of all described insect species are beetles (about 350,000 species), and new species are regularly discovered. Estimates put the total number of species — described and undescribed — at between 5 and 8 million. This is why, w ...

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Beetle - Pests Beetle - Beneficial organisms Beetle - Scarab beetles in Egyptian culture Beetle - Collecting
Beetle - Gallery Beetle - Journals

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