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51ActiveX Data Objects — Microsoft s ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) is a set of Component Object Model (COM) objects for accessing data sources. A part of MDAC, it provides a middleware layer between programming languages and OLE DB (a means of accessing data stores, whether …
52Mass spectrometry data format — Mass spectrometry is a scientific technique for measuring the mass of ions. It is often coupled to chromatographic techniques such as gas or liquid chromatography and has found widespread adoption in the fields of analytical chemistry and… …
53Astrophysics Data System — Logo of the ADS The Astrophysics Data System (usually referred to as ADS), developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is an online database of over eight million astronomy and physics papers from both peer reviewed and …
54gold processing — Introduction preparation of the ore for use in various products. For thousands of years the word gold has connoted something of beauty or value. These images are derived from two properties of gold, its colour and its chemical stability.… …
55iron processing — Introduction use of a smelting process to turn the ore into a form from which products can be fashioned. Included in this article also is a discussion of the mining of iron and of its preparation for smelting. Iron (Fe) is a… …
56National Adult Reading Test — The National Adult Reading Test (NART) is a widely accepted and commonly used method in clinical settings for estimating premorbid intelligence levels of English speaking patients with dementia in neuropsychological research[1]. It was developed… …
57Thresholding (image processing) — Thresholding is the simplest method of image segmentation. From a grayscale image, thresholding can be used to create binary images .During the thresholding process, individual pixels in an image are marked as “object” pixels if their value is… …
58titanium processing — Introduction preparation of the ore for use in various products. Titanium (Ti) is a soft, ductile, silvery gray metal with a melting point of 1,675° C (3,047° F). Owing to the formation on its surface of an oxide film that is… …
59thorium processing — Introduction preparation of the ore for use in various products. Thorium (Th) is a dense (11.7 grams per cubic centimetre), silvery metal that is softer than steel. It has a high melting temperature of approximately 1,750° C (3,180°… …
60computer — computerlike, adj. /keuhm pyooh teuhr/, n. 1. Also called processor. an electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations. Cf. analog… …
