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[2003 film] German | Resistance is a war movie released in 2003. It was written by Todd Komarnicki and Anita Shreve, stars Bill Paxton, Julia Ormond, Philippe Volter, Sandrine Bonnaire, and Victor Reinier, and was directed by Todd Komarnicki. Resistance, with a 16 million euro budget, was th...
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[Voyager episode] Reporting statistics of link fungalguide.ca; 1 records. Reports COIBot reported 1 links. ...
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[EP] Resistance is the first EP or mini-album (second overall release) by Mika Nakashima, though the title track later appears on her Love album. This mini-album reached #1 on the Oricon charts and charted for six weeks. "Resistance" was used as the Meiji confectionery CM song, and "Heaven o...
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[military] In military terminology, resistance or organised resistance refers to the ability of a military unit to continue to oppose an attack. Resistance ends when a unit surrenders, when all members of unit are killed or captured, or when a unit disperses. The term is used in the phrase "...
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[psychology] "Resistance" as initially used by Sigmund Freud, referred to patients blocking memories from conscious memory. This was a key concept, since the primary treatment method of Freud`s talk therapy required making these memories available to the patient`s consciousness. =="Resistanc...
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[Burning Spear album] Resistance is a studio album by Jamaican reggae singer Burning Spear. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Resistance, Spear`s first release for Heartbeat, is regarded as one of Burning Spear`s most solid albums, a...
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[Alove for Enemies album] Resistance is an album from Christian hardcore band, Alove for Enemies` on Facedown Records album. The album was produced and engineered by Dean Baltulonis. ==Track listing== == Credits == ...
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[YBNP] Young BNP (also known as Youth BNP or YBNP) is the youth section of the British National Party (BNP). The group falls under the arm of the British Nationalist Youth Movement with other groups such as BNP Students. ...
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[Battlestar Galactica] "Resistance" is the fourth episode of the second season of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series. It aired originally on the Sci Fi Channel on August 5, 2005. In the episode, Marines fire on civilians following Colonel Saul Tigh`s declaration of martial...
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The opposition to current flow, expressed in ohms.
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[socialist youth organisation] Membership is open to everyone under 26 who is living in Australia and broadly agrees with the aims of Resistance. As a youth organisation, Resistance campaigns as a group of young people within the social movements rather than only focusing on issues relating ...
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For plants and animals, the ability to withstand poor environmental conditions or attacks by chemicals or disease. May be inborn or acquired.
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Is a price level where stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities are expected to receive sell orders. At its simplest application it is the ask or offer side of a quote. On a more complex level it refers to the upper boundary of some described trading range.
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The ability of an organism to exclude or overcome, completely or in some degree, the effect of a pathogen or other damaging factor.
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Natural or genetic ability to avoid or repel attack by parasite or to withstand toxic effects of pesticide (microbial or chemical).
Various types of inherited (or constitutive) resistance to pathogens are recognised in plants, but the terms used to describe them have a multiplicity of meanings to...
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Where for example in therapy a patient shows resistance to their psychoanalytic psychotherapists interpretation of their dream content . Often such resistance has to be broken down before the patient can accept what their unconscious is telling them about the cause of their neurosis.
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[n] - any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion 2. [n] - the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) 3. [n] - (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into consc...
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The price level where in the past a security has tended to stop rising and then subsequently falls.
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1) That property of a conductor by which it opposes the flow of electric current, resulting in the generation of heat in the conducting material, usually expressed in ohms.
2) Opposition to the flow of current in one direction or which does not represent different opposition for signals of differ...
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The real (non-reactive) part of the impedance of a circuit.
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This is the amount of opposition or yes, resistance! to a flow of electrical current, and is measured in Ohm's, which is sometimes represented by the Greek symbol for Omega. In electronic's, copper, aluminium, gold and silver offers very little resistance to electric current, and are commonly known ...
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Resistance is a forecasted price level where the rate of exchange should encounter selling pressure, which should stop the price/rate from rising any further. Main market participants (Investment funds, Banks etc.) look for resistance and support levels to place orders and thus they become, to a lar...
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The electrical resistance of a conductor is defined by:where I is the current flowing through the conductor and V is the potential difference across the conductor.The power disipated by a resistor is given by Joule's law:whereW = power disipated [Watt]I = current [Ampere]R = resistance [Ohm]V = pote...
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The capacity of members to resist an action. (See also, Moment of Resistance.)
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Resistance (R) is electric potential difference divided by current when there is no electromotive force in the conductor. This definition applies to direct current. More generally, resistance is defined as the real part of impedance.
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