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91Space debris — populations seen from outside geosynchronous orbit (GEO). Note the two primary debris fields, the ring of objects in GEO, and the cloud of objects in low earth orbit (LEO) …
92Medical tourism — (also called medical travel, health tourism or global healthcare) is a term initially coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain health care. It also… …
93Influenza pandemic — Note: For information about the content, tone and sourcing of this article, please see the tags at the bottom of this page. An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large… …
94History of IBM mainframe operating systems — The history of operating systems running on IBM mainframes is a notable chapter of history of mainframe operating systems, because of IBM s long standing position as the world s largest hardware supplier of mainframe computers.Arguably the… …
95OS/360 and successors — See also History of IBM mainframe operating systems Operating System/360 Company / developer IBM OS family OS/360 and successors Latest stable release 21.8 Available language(s) Algol 60, Assembler (E), Assemble …
96Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing — (GD T) is a system for defining and communicating engineering tolerances. It uses a symbolic language on engineering drawings and computer generated three dimensional solid models for explicitly describing nominal geometry and its allowable… …
97Infection control — is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare associated infection, a practical (rather than academic) sub discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential, though often under recognized and under supported, part of the… …
98international trade — Introduction economic transactions that are made between countries. Among the items commonly traded are consumer goods, such as television sets and clothing; capital goods, such as machinery; and raw materials and food. Other transactions… …
99Intermodal container — A 40 foot (12.19 m) long shipping container. Each of the eight corners has a simple twistlock fitting for stacking, locking and craning …
100Message Passing Interface — MPI, the Message Passing Interface, is standardized and portable message passing system designed by a group of researchers from academia and industry to function on a wide variety of parallel computers. The standard defines the syntax and… …
