Iara or IARA may refer to:
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Iara (mythology)
Iara, also spelled Uiara, Yara or Hiara (, , , , ) or Mãe das Águas (, "mother of the waters"), is a figure from Brazilian mythology based on the ancient Tupi and Guaraní mythology. The word derives from Old Tupi ''yîara'' = ''y'' ("water" ...
, a figure from Brazilian mythology
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Iara, Cluj
Iara ( hu, Alsójára; german: Jahren) is a commune in the southern part of Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of thirteen villages: Agriș (''Ruhaegres''), Borzești (''Berkes''), Buru (''Borrév''), Cacova Ierii (''Aranyosivánfa ...
, a commune in Cluj County, Romania
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Iara (Arieș), a tributary of the Arieș in Cluj County, Romania
*Iara, a tributary of the
Petrilaca in Mureș County, Romania
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Iara, Madagascar
Iara is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Vangaindrano, which is a part of Atsimo-Atsinanana Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 9,000 in 2001 commune census.
Only primary schoolin ...
, a town and commune
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Iara Oil Field, off the coast of Brazil
*Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Islamic American Relief Agency The Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA-USA) was an "American non-profit organization established in 1985 and dedicated to the empowerment of disadvantaged people everywhere through relief and participatory development programs emphasizing human di ...
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Increasing absolute risk aversion
In economics and finance, risk aversion is the tendency of people to prefer outcomes with low uncertainty to those outcomes with high uncertainty, even if the average outcome of the latter is equal to or higher in monetary value than the more ce ...
, used in economics, finance, and decision theory
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Iara Lee (born 1966), Brazilian film producer, director and activist
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