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Neutralizers refer to muscles that counteract or neutralize the action of other muscles to prevent undesirable movements; referred to as neutralizing, they contract to resist specific action

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New information is a kind of information that the comprehender, reader or listener, is assumed not to know.

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Newbery Medal refers to an award given for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

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Newsletters refers to a method of downward Communication typically used to communicate organizational Feedback and celebrate emplo

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Deutsch: Next-In-Line-Effekt / Español: Efecto del siguiente en la fila / Português: Efeito do próximo na fila / Français: Effet du suivant dans la ligne / Italiano: Effetto del prossimo in fila

Next In Line Effect refers to a cognitive phenomenon observed in social psychology where individuals have difficulty remembering information about others who speak immediately before or after them in a sequence, such as in presentations or when taking turns speaking in a Group. This effect is attributed to the individual's focus on their own performance and anxiety about being next, which detracts from their ability to process and encode the preceding or following person's information into memory.

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Deutsch: Nische-Picking / Español: Selección de nicho / Português: Escolha de nicho / Français: Choix de niche / Italiano: Scelta di nicchia /

Niche-picking refers to the process of deliberately seeking environments that are compatible with one's genetic makeup.

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- Nicolas de Malebranche (1638 to 1715) : Nicolas de Malebranche contended that the mind and body were separate, but that God coordinated their activities.

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- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) : Nicolaus Copernicus is a scientist who argued that the earth rotated around the sun and therefore the earth was not the center of the solar system and the universe as the church had maintained.

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