improvement of (professional) skill
121Lean manufacturing — or lean production, which is often known simply as Lean , is the practice of a theory of production that considers the expenditure of resources for any means other than the creation of value for the presumed customer to be wasteful, and thus a… …
122Character creation — This article is about customizable game characters. For the process of designing fictional characters, see characterisation …
123Fawn M. Brodie — Fawn McKay Brodie (September 15, 1915 – January 10, 1981) was a biographer and professor of history at UCLA, best known for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History , a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History , the first prominent non… …
124Key Skills Qualification — The Key Skills Qualification [http://www.qca.org.uk/603.html] is a frequently required component of 14 19 education in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. The aim of Key Skills is to encourage learners to develop and demonstrate their skills as… …
125Japanese cryptology from the 1500s to Meiji — The cipher system that Uesugi used is basically a simple substitution usually known as a Polybius square or “checkerboard.” The i ro ha alphabet contains forty eight letters, so a seven by seven square is used, with one of the cells left blank.… …
126White Stag Leadership Development Program — White Stag Leadership Development is a non profit organization founded on the Monterey Peninsula, California, in 1958 by Dr. Béla H. Bánáthy. The youth run program prepares and produces two week long summer camps for other youth age 11 17 each… …
127Quake (video game) — This article is about the original video game. For the series as a whole, see Quake (series). Quake Developer(s) id Software Midway Games (N64) …
128Maintenance of Certification for Surgery — Maintenance of Certification is a program of continuous professional development created by the ABS with the other member boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). MOC goes beyond traditional recertification at 10 year intervals …
