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educational television

(Encyclopedia)educational television: see audiovisual education. ...

scientific empiricism

(Encyclopedia)scientific empiricism: see logical positivism. ...

scientific management

(Encyclopedia)scientific management: see industrial management. ...

scientific notation

(Encyclopedia)scientific notation, means of expressing very large or very small numbers in a compact form that is easy to use in computations. In this notation, any number is expressed as a number between 1 and 10 ...

Breuer, Marcel Lajos

(Encyclopedia)Breuer, Marcel Lajos broiˈər [key], 1902–81, American architect and furniture designer, b. Hungary. During the 1920s he was associated, both as student and as teacher, with the Bauhaus in Germany....

United Nations Children's Fund

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), a specialized fund of the United Nations. It was established in 1946 as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, and became a permanent part...

United Nations Development Program

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Development Program (UNDP), agency of the United Nations, established in 1965 to unify the operations of the Expanded Program of Technical Assistance and the United Nations Special Fund...

United Nations General Assembly

(Encyclopedia)United Nations General Assembly: see United Nations. ...

United Nations Members (table)

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Members

United Nations Security Council

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Security Council: see United Nations. ...