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  2. Autonomous agent - Wikipedia

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    Franklin and Graesser (1997) review different definitions and propose their definition. "An autonomous agent is a system situated within and a part of an environment that senses that environment and acts on it, over time, in pursuit of its own agenda and so as to effect what it senses in the future." [3]

  3. Dispersant - Wikipedia

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    A dispersant or a dispersing agent is a substance, typically a surfactant, that is added to a suspension of solid or liquid particles in a liquid (such as a colloid or emulsion) to improve the separation of the particles and to prevent their settling or clumping. [1]

  4. Agent (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Agent (grammar) In linguistics, a grammatical agent is the thematic relation of the cause or initiator to an event. [1] The agent is a semantic concept distinct from the subject of a sentence as well as from the topic. While the subject is determined syntactically, primarily through word order, the agent is determined through its relationship ...

  5. Free Agent: A Spaced Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    Free Agent: A Spaced Odyssey is the fifth solo album by former Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell. The album was released by Polystar Records in Japan in 1997. The album features guest musicians Buckethead, Umar Bin Hassan and Bill Laswell. Free Agent has never been distributed by any major or independent record label outside Japan.

  6. Lacing (drugs) - Wikipedia

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    Lacing (drugs) Lacing or cutting, in drug culture, refer to the act of using a substance (referred to as the lacing agent or cutting agent) to adulterate substances independent of the reason. The resulting substance is laced or cut .

  7. Protecting agent (shipping) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Protecting agent or protective agent or supervisory agent in shipping is the person or entity that provide shipping agency services to the shipowners, charterers, time charterers in the situations where the conflict of interests exists or anticipated from the shipping agent. The main task of the protecting agent is to protect the interest ...

  8. Freight forwarder - Wikipedia

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    A freight forwarder or forwarding agent is a person or a company who co-ordinates and organizes the movement of shipments on behalf of a shipper (party that arranges an item for shipment) by liaising with carriers (party that transports goods). The carriers may use a variety of shipping modes, including ships, airplanes, trucks, and railroads ...

  9. James Bond - Wikipedia

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    The first parody was the 1964 film Carry On Spying, which shows the villain Dr. Crow being overcome by agents who included James Bind (Charles Hawtry) and Daphne Honeybutt (Barbara Windsor). One of the films that reacted against the portrayal of Bond was the Harry Palmer series, whose first film, The Ipcress File , starring Michael Caine , was ...