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81Government contract — Contracting with the U.S. Government is based on many of the same principles as commercial contracting andcan be very profitable, but is sufficiently different from commercial contracting to require special care.Persons entering into commercial… …
82Critical assumption planning — is a service mark of D. Dunham Co and was described in Journal of Business Venturing by Sykes in 1995. Critical Assumption Planning (CAP) helps managers and entrepreneurs maximize business development learning at least cost. The continuous… …
83C++11 — C++11, also formerly known as C++0x,[1] is the name of the most recent iteration of the C++ programming language, replacing C++TR1, approved by the ISO as of 12 August 2011.[2] The name is derived from the tradition of naming language versions by …
84Big O notation — In mathematics, big O notation is used to describe the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity, usually in terms of simpler functions. It is a member of a larger family of notations that is… …
85Scenario planning — [or scenario thinking or scenario analysis] is a strategic planning method that some organizations use to make flexible long term plans. It is in large part an adaptation and generalization of classic methods used by military intelligence.The… …
86Firefighting — Distinguish from a firefight, which means a battle with firearms. Firefighting is the act of extinguishing destructive fires. A firefighter fights these fires to prevent destruction of life, property and the environment. Firefighting is a highly… …
87nuclear reactor — Physics. reactor (def. 4). Also called nuclear pile. [1940 45] * * * Device that can initiate and control a self sustaining series of nuclear fission reactions. Neutrons released in one fission reaction may strike other heavy nuclei, causing them …
88Death panel — is a term or phrase from a debunked 2009 partisan, political claim the death panel myth. Repeated or editorialized by politicians, news media, and commentators from both TV and radio, it portrayed the United States government as attempting to… …
89Halting problem — In computability theory, the halting problem can be stated as follows: Given a description of a computer program, decide whether the program finishes running or continues to run forever. This is equivalent to the problem of deciding, given a… …
90Heapsort — Infobox Algorithm class=Sorting algorithm A run of the heapsort algorithm sorting an array of randomly permuted values. In the first stage of the algorithm the array elements are reordered to satisfy the heap property. Before the actual sorting… …
