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OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention (officially OECD Convention Against Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions) is a convention of the OECD aimed at reducing corruption in developing countries by sanctioning bribery carried out by companies based in OECD member state..

Oeceoclades decaryana
Oeceoclades decaryana is an orchid species of the genus Oeceoclades, found in Madagascar. ..

Oecobiidae
The spider family Oecobiidae (also called Disc web spiders) consists of about 100 species. They are rather small (about 2mm); some of them build tiny webs close to the ceiling in people's homes. The first two pairs of legs point forward then curve backwards. The species Oecobium navus occurs aro..

Oeconomicus (Xenophon)
Conversations of Socrates, Penguin Classics edition of Xenophon's Socratic dialogues including the Oeconomicus, edited by Robin Waterfield The Oeconomicus by Xenophon is a Socratic dialogue principally about household management and agriculture. It is one of the earliest works on economics an..

Oecophoridae
The Oecophoridae are a family of Lepidoptera (moths). Many Oecophorids feed on dead plant material and play a useful part in nutrient recycling. However, the family includes the Whiteshouldered House Moth Endrosis sarcitrella, a widely distributed species whose larvae infest stored grain, and the..

Oecophylla smaragdina
Oecophylla smaragdina (common names include weaver ant, green tree ant and orange gaster) is a species of arboreal ant found in Asia and Australasia. They make nests in trees made of leaves stitched together using the silk produced by their larvae. ..

Oecumene
Oecumene is a term originally adopted within Christianity, where it has been suggested there is a single believing community amongst the various different Christian denominations, particularly between the Roman Catholic Church and the denominations which has arose by the Great Schism of 1054 and wit..

Oecus
Oecus, the Latinized form of Gr. o?cos, house, used by Vitruvius for the principal hall or salon in a Roman house, which was used occasionally as a triclinium for banquets. When of great size it became necessary to support its ceiling with columns; thus, according to Vitruvius, the tetrastyle oecus..

Oecussi-Ambeno
Oecussi-AmbenoOe-Kusi Ambenu Statistics Capital: Pante Macassar Area: 815 km²Ranked 8th Inhabitants: 58,521 (2004)Ranked 6th Pop. density: 71.8 inh./km²Ranked 4th No. of households: 13,016 (2004)Ranked 7th ISO 3166-2: TL-OE Subdistricts: Nitibe, Oesilo, Pante Macassar, Passabe ..

Oe (Cyrillic)
The Cyrillic letter Oe or Barred O (Ө, ө) is an O with a horizontal line through it. Despite having a similar shape, it is neither related to the letter Theta (Θ,θ) of the Greek alphabet nor the archaic Cyrillic letter Fita (Ѳ,ѳ). It is used in Bashkir, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, ..

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