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2. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Wikipedia

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   The book asserts that based on studies done at MIT and other universities, higher pay and bonuses result in better performance within the workplace only if tasks consist of basic mechanical skills. If the task involved cognitive skills, decision-making, creativity, or higher-order thinking, higher pay resulted in lower performance. Pink ...

3. VAX - Wikipedia

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   VAX. VAX (an acronym for Virtual Address eXtension) is a series of computers featuring a 32-bit instruction set architecture (ISA) and virtual memory that was developed and sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 20th century. The VAX-11/780, introduced October 25, 1977, was the first of a range of popular and influential ...

4. Branch (computer science) - Wikipedia

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   t. e. A branch is an instruction in a computer program that can cause a computer to begin executing a different instruction sequence and thus deviate from its default behavior of executing instructions in order. [a] Branch (or branching, branched) may also refer to the act of switching execution to a different instruction sequence as a result ...

5. Jury instructions - Wikipedia

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   Jury instructions. Jury instructions, also known as charges or directions, are a set of legal guidelines given by a judge to a jury in a court of law. They are an important procedural step in a trial by jury, and as such are a cornerstone of criminal process in many common law countries . The purpose of instructions are to inform the jury about ...

6. TEST (x86 instruction) - Wikipedia

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   TEST (x86 instruction) In the x86 assembly language, the TEST instruction performs a bitwise AND on two operands. The flags SF, ZF, PF are modified while the result of the AND is discarded. The OF and CF flags are set to 0, while AF flag is undefined. There are 9 different opcodes for the TEST instruction depending on the type and size of the ...

7. Work (human activity) - Wikipedia

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   Work encompasses all types of productive activities, including employment, household chores, volunteering, and creative pursuits. It is a broad term that encompasses any effort or activity directed towards achieving a particular goal. Because sustained effort is a necessary part of many human activities, what qualifies as work is often a matter ...

8. PDF - Wikipedia

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   Yes. Website. iso .org /standard /75839 .html. Portable Document Format ( PDF ), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

9. Complex instruction set computer - Wikipedia

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   Complex instruction set computer. A complex instruction set computer ( CISC / ˈsɪsk /) is a computer architecture in which single instructions can execute several low-level operations (such as a load from memory, an arithmetic operation, and a memory store) or are capable of multi-step operations or addressing modes within single instructions ...