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Glossary-HRM627 - Human Resource Development
Posted on Monday, 19 July 2010
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| Skills : | General capacities to perform a set of tasks developed through the acquisition of experience and/or training which require more than just knowing about the subject. |
| Reward power : | The authority to reward others. |
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Glossary STA630 - Research Methods
Posted on Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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| Action Research : | That research role where the researcher and their role is involved in the research study and is interventionist. Here research is joined with action in order to plan, implement and monitor change. |
| Communication research : | An umbrella term for market research, social research, media research and audience research combined. |
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Glossary MGT602 - Entrepreneurship
Posted on Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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| Accountant: : | A person who carries out bookkeeping, auditing, and other financial reporting and analysis. This is a generic term referring to a wide range of skills from semi-clerical to highly trained professional work. |
| Accounts payable: : | The outstanding bills of an enterprise; money owed to suppliers for goods and services purchased for the normal operations of the venture. Accounts payable are included on the balance sheet under current liabilities. |
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Glossary MGT201 - Financial Management
Posted on Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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| Accounting Cycle : | The procedures for analyzing, recording, classifying, summarizing, and reporting the transactions of a business. |
| Accounting period : | A regular period of time, such as a quarter or year, for which a financial statement is produced |
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Glossary MGMT611 - Human Relations
Posted on Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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| A social system : | A pattern of social acts through which one gets to know the dos and don’ts. |
| Ability : | Stable characteristic responsible for a person's maximum physical or mental performance. |
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Glossary HRM627 - Human Resource Development
Posted on Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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| Skills : | General capacities to perform a set of tasks developed through the acquisition of experience and/or training which require more than just knowing about the subject. |
| Reward power : | The authority to reward others. |
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Glossary CS614 - Data Warehousing
Posted on Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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| Aggregate : | Summarized data. For example, unit sales of a particular product could be aggregated by day, month, quarter and yearly sales. |
| Aggregation : | The process of consolidating data values into a single value. For example, sales data could be collected on a daily basis and then be aggregated to the week level, the week data could be aggregated to the month level, and so on. The data can then be referred to as aggregate data. Aggregation is synonymous with summarization, and aggregate data is synonymous with summary data. |
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Glossary CS610 - Computer Network
Posted on Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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| 10Base-T : | An IEEE standard (802.3) for operating 10 Mbps Ethernet networks with twisted-pair cabling and a wiring hub, referred to as a 10Base-T hub. |
| 3PC : | Third Party Connect Protocol |
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Glossary CS504 - Software Engineering - I
Posted on Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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| Abstract Class : | In object-oriented programming, a class designed only as a parent from which sub-classes may be derived, but which is not itself suitable for instantiation. Often used to "abstract out" incomplete sets of features which may then be shared by a group of sibling sub-classes which add different variations of the missing pieces. |
| ACM : | Association for Computing Machinery |
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Glossary CS502 - Fundamentals of Algorithms
Posted on Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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| abstract data type : | A set of data values and associated operations that are precisely specified independent of any particular implementation. Also known as ADT. |
| acyclic graph : | a graph that contains no cycles |
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