automated system of scientific and technical information
31Rail fastening system — Elements of a baseplate based rail fastening system 1. Screw for fixing plate to sleeper 2. Elastomeric pad supporting rail 3. Tension washer 4. Rail clamp 5. Tensioning bolt (nut not shown) 6. Baseplate …
32MDL Information Systems — MDL Information Systems, a provider of R D informatics offerings for the life sciences and chemicals industries and acquired by Symyx Technologies, Inc. in 2007, was launched as a computer aided drug design firm (originally named Molecular Design …
33Embedded system — Picture of the internals of an ADSL modem/router. A modern example of an embedded system. Labelled parts include a microprocessor (4), RAM (6), and flash memory (7). An embedded system is a computer system designed to do one or a few dedicated… …
34Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth — Review cover page The Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth, or Digital Opportunity A review of Intellectual Property and Growth, was an independent review of the United Kingdom s intellectual property (IP) system, focusing on UK… …
35Government procurement in the United States — is based on many of the same principles as commercial contracting, but is subject to special laws and regulation as described below. Persons entering into commercial contracts are pretty much free to do anything that they can agree on. Each… …
36library — /luy brer ee, breuh ree, bree/, n., pl. libraries. 1. a place set apart to contain books, periodicals, and other material for reading, viewing, listening, study, or reference, as a room, set of rooms, or building where books may be read or… …
37International Space Station program — The International Space Station program is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the fifteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and… …
38Space Race — For a discussion of all spaceflight programs to date, see History of spaceflight. For a list of key events, see Timeline of space exploration. For other uses of the term, see Space Race (disambiguation). A replica of Sputnik 1, the world s… …
39Johan Sebastiaan Ploem — Infobox Scientist name = Johan Sebastiaan Ploem image width = 200px birth date = birth date and age|1927|08|25 birth place = Sumatra, Indonesia nationality = Dutch field = Advanced Microscopy; Molecular Diagnostics; Digital Painting work… …
40Microform — For other uses, see Microform (disambiguation). Digital scanning of microfilm (see Digital conversion below). Microforms are any forms, either films or paper, containing microreproductions[1] of documents for transmission, storage, reading, and… …
