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  2. Type 2 diabetes - Wikipedia

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    Type 2 diabetes primarily occurs as a result of obesity and lack of exercise. [1] Some people are genetically more at risk than others. [6] Type 2 diabetes makes up about 90% of cases of diabetes, with the other 10% due primarily to type 1 diabetes and gestational diabetes. [1]

  3. Umlaut (diacritic) - Wikipedia

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    Umlaut (/ ˈ ʊ m l aʊ t /) is a name for the two dots diacritical mark ( ̈) as used to indicate in writing (as part of the letters ä , ö , and ü ) the result of the historical sound shift due to which former back vowels are now pronounced as front vowels (for example , , and as , , and ).

  4. Light characteristic - Wikipedia

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    The range in which the light is visible, e.g. "10M" for 10 nautical miles. An example of a complete light characteristic is "Gp Oc(3) W 10s 15m 10M". This indicates that the light is a group occulting light in which a group of three eclipses repeat every 10 seconds; the light is white; the light is 15 metres above the chart datum and the ...

  5. Bipolar II disorder - Wikipedia

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    The global estimated lifetime prevalence of bipolar disorder among adults range from 1 to 3 percent. [63] The annual incidence is estimated to vary from 0.3 to 1.2 percent worldwide. [23] According to the World Mental Health Survey Initiative, the lifetime prevalence of BP-II was found to be 0.4%, with a 12-month prevalence of 0.3%. [64]

  6. Kardashev scale - Wikipedia

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    A civilization "close to the level currently achieved on Earth, with an energy consumption of ≈4 × 10 19 erg/sec" (4 × 10 12 watts). [2] A Type I civilization is usually defined as one that can harness all the energy that reaches its home planet from its parent star (for Earth, this value is about 2 × 10 17 watts), which is about four ...

  7. Type III error - Wikipedia

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    In statistical hypothesis testing, there are various notions of so-called type III errors (or errors of the third kind), and sometimes type IV errors or higher, by analogy with the type I and type II errors of Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson. Fundamentally, type III errors occur when researchers provide the right answer to the wrong question, i.e ...