scientific and technical information division
1Defense Technical Information Center — Department overview Headquarters Fort Belvoir, Virginia …
2Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre — Defence Scientific Information Documentation Centre Established 29 July 1970 Director Dr. A.L. Moorthy Address Metcalfe House, Delhi 110054 [1] Location …
3Scientific Data Systems — Scientific Data Systems, or SDS, was an American computer company founded in September 1961 by Max Palevsky, a veteran of Packard Bell and Bendix, along with eleven other computer scientists. SDS was an early adopter of integrated circuits in… …
4Shocks and discontinuities (magnetohydrodynamics) — Shocks and discontinuities are transition layers where the plasma properties change from one equilibrium state to another. The relation between the plasma properties on both sides of a shock or a discontinuity can be obtained from the… …
5Scientific research in Canada — This article outlines the history of natural scientific research in Canada including, mathematics, physics, astronomy, space science, geology, oceanography, chemistry, biology, medical research and psychology. The social sciences are not treated… …
6Information science — Not to be confused with Information theory. Contents 1 Introduction 2 A multitude of information sciences? 3 Definitions of information science 4 History …
7Technical Service Council — The TECHNICAL SERVICE COUNCIL was set up to combat the brain drain of Canadian engineers to the United States, when over 20% of the graduating classes were emigrating. Ireland, India, New Zealand and even Switzerland have had similar problems.In… …
8Scientific writing — cientific Englishtyle of writing and use of English in essays and scientific papersThe following advice may be of help to students writing an essay or a scientific paper.Three aspects of style seem to cause problems# Division of the text into… …
9Information theory — Not to be confused with Information science. Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental… …
10Information literacy — Several conceptions and definitions of information literacy have become prevalent. For example, one conception defines information literacy in terms of a set of competencies that an informed citizen of an information society ought to possess to… …
