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  2. Linux - Wikipedia

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    It starts processes such as system services and login prompts (whether graphical or in terminal mode). Software libraries , which contain code that can be used by running processes. On Linux systems using ELF -format executable files, the dynamic linker that manages the use of dynamic libraries is known as ld-linux.so .

  3. Log-normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    The log-normal distribution has also been associated with other names, such as McAlister, Gibrat and Cobb–Douglas. [4] A log-normal process is the statistical realization of the multiplicative product of many independent random variables, each of which is positive.

  4. Pitometer log - Wikipedia

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    Impeller log:A variation of this approach is known as a patent log, which is towed from the stern of a ship. The patent log includes a mechanical register that counts the log's rotations as it is being towed. The patent log was invented in 1688 by the English instrument maker Humphry Cole. The patent log is also known as a screw log or taffrail ...

  5. Employees Provident Fund (Nepal) - Wikipedia

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    Three years after the establishment of Employees Provident Fund Department, a special Act called "Karmachari Sanchaya Kosh (or Employee's Provident Fund) Act" was legislated in the year 1962. The same year the present Karmachari Sanchaya Kosh (KSK), or Employees Provident Fund (EPF) in English, was established under the act as an autonomous ...

  6. Ally Financial - Wikipedia

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    Ally Financial Inc. (previously known as GMAC) is a bank holding company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered at Ally Detroit Center in Detroit, Michigan.The company provides financial services including car finance, online banking via a direct bank, corporate lending, vehicle insurance, mortgage loans, and other related financing services such as installment sale and lease agreements.

  7. Partition coefficient - Wikipedia

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    The distribution coefficient, log D, is the ratio of the sum of the concentrations of all forms of the compound (ionized plus un-ionized) in each of the two phases, one essentially always aqueous; as such, it depends on the pH of the aqueous phase, and log D = log P for non-ionizable compounds at any pH.

  8. Navy Log - Wikipedia

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    The opening scene, filmed aboard the U.S.S. Hancock, showed 2,000 sailors forming the words "Navy Log". [1] The program's theme was "The Navy Log March" by Fred Steiner. Episodes opened with an announcer saying, "This is Navy Log. The dramas you see each week on Navy Log are from official U. S. Navy files. They tell of ships and places and ...

  9. Logbook (nautical) - Wikipedia

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    A logbook (a ship's logs or simply log) is a record of important events in the management, operation, and navigation of a ship. It is essential to traditional navigation, and must be filled in at least daily. The term originally referred to a book for recording readings from the chip log that was used to estimate a ship's speed through the ...