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31Nuclear criticality safety — is a field of nuclear engineering dedicated to the prevention of nuclear and radiation accidents resulting from an inadvertent, self sustaining nuclear chain reaction.[1] Additionally, nuclear criticality safety is concerned with mitigating the… …
32Embedded 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… …
33Organizational safety — is a contemporary discipline of study and research developed from the works of James Reason, creator of the Swiss Cheese Model, and Charles Perrow author of Normal Accidents. These scholars demonstrated the complexity and system coupling inherent …
34information system — Introduction an integrated set of components for collecting, storing, processing, and communicating information (information science). Business firms, other organizations, and individuals in contemporary society rely on information systems… …
35Security and safety features new to Windows Vista — There are a number of security and safety features new to Windows Vista, most of which are not available in any prior Microsoft Windows operating system release.Beginning in early 2002 with Microsoft s announcement of their Trustworthy Computing… …
36Coding system of FireWire — FireWire, also known as IEEE 1394, i.LINK (Sony) or DV (Panasonic), is a serial bus architecture for high speed data transfer. Compared to older avionics data buses such as Mil Std 1553, FireWire is a serial bus, meaning that information is… …
37Integrity (operating system) — Infobox OS name = INTEGRITY caption = developer = Green Hills Software source model = Closed Source kernel type = Microkernel supported platforms = ARM, XScale, Blackfin, Freescale ColdFire, MIPS, PowerPC, x86 ui = family = Real time operating… …
38List of system quality attributes — Within systems engineering, quality attributes are non functional requirements used to evaluate the performance of a system. These are sometimes named ilities after the suffix many of the words share. Notable quality attributes include: *… …
39Nuclear safety — covers the actions taken to prevent nuclear and radiation accidents or to limit their consequences. This covers nuclear power plants as well as all other nuclear facilities, the transportation of nuclear materials, and the use and storage of… …
40Global Positioning System — GPS redirects here. For other uses, see GPS (disambiguation). Geodesy Fundamentals …
