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101ancient Rome — ▪ ancient state, Europe, Africa, and Asia Introduction the state centred on the city of Rome. This article discusses the period from the founding of the city and the regal period, which began in 753 BC, through the events leading to the… …
102environmental works — ▪ civil engineering Introduction infrastructure that provides cities and towns with water supply, waste disposal, and pollution control services. They include extensive networks of reservoirs, pipelines, treatment systems, pumping stations …
103publishing, history of — Introduction an account of the selection, preparation, and marketing of printed matter from its origins in ancient times to the present. The activity has grown from small beginnings into a vast and complex industry responsible for the… …
104Glossary of rail terminology — Rail transport Operations Track Maintenance High speed Gauge Stations …
105Mobile telephony — Mobile phone tower Mobile telephony is the provision of telephone services to phones which may move around freely rather than stay fixed in one location. Mobile phones connect to a terrestrial cellular network of base stations (cell sites),… …
106Bluetooth — This article is about the electronic protocol. For the medieval King of Denmark, see Harald I of Denmark. Bluetooth logo Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short wavelength …
107Predator technology — The following is a list of equipment and weapons utilised by the fictional Predators from the Predator franchise. The Predators are a highly advanced technological species, evident through their capacity for interstellar travel and their vast… …
108Distributed operating system — A distributed operating system is the logical aggregation of operating system software over a collection of independent, networked, communicating, and spatially disseminated computational nodes.[1] Individual system nodes each hold a discrete… …
109Public transport — This article is about passenger transportation systems. For mathematics, see transportation theory. For other uses, see Mass transit (disambiguation). Public infrastructure Assets and facilities …
110Service delivery platform — The term Service Delivery Platform (SDP) usually refers to a set of components that provide a service’s delivery architecture (such as service creation, session control protocols) for a type of service. There is no standard definition of SDP in… …
