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  2. Operation Bootstrap - Wikipedia

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    Women in Operation Bootstrap were targeted as an important labor force, especially for the garment and apparel industry, which represented a share of the manufacturing market. Education. At the time, modernization theory was the driving force behind American program development in the Cold War era. As a result, Operation Bootstrap focused on ...

  3. Code page - Wikipedia

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    Code page. In computing, a code page is a character encoding and as such it is a specific association of a set of printable characters and control characters with unique numbers. Typically each number represents the binary value in a single byte. (In some contexts these terms are used more precisely; see Character encoding § Terminology .)

  4. Frontend and backend - Wikipedia

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    In software engineering, the terms frontend and backend (sometimes written as back end or back-end) refer to the separation of concerns between the presentation layer ( frontend ), and the data access layer ( backend) of a piece of software, or the physical infrastructure or hardware. In the client–server model, the client is usually ...

  5. UTF-8 - Wikipedia

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    UTF-8. UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit. [1] UTF-8 is capable of encoding all 1,112,064 [a] valid Unicode code points using one to four one- byte (8-bit) code units.

  6. Process control block - Wikipedia

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    A process control block ( PCB ), also sometimes called a process descriptor, is a data structure used by a computer operating system to store all the information about a process . When a process is created (initialized or installed), the operating system creates a corresponding process control block, which specifies and tracks the process state ...

  7. National Spherical Torus Experiment - Wikipedia

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    For example, in 1994, PPPL's Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor produced a world-record 10.7 megawatts of fusion power from a plasma composed of equal parts of deuterium and tritium, a fuel mix likely to be used in commercial fusion power reactors. NSTX was a "proof of principle" experiment and therefore employed deuterium plasmas only.

  8. nQuery Sample Size Software - Wikipedia

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    nQuery. nQuery is a clinical trial design platform used for the design and monitoring of adaptive, group sequential, and fixed sample size trials. It is most commonly used by biostatisticians to calculate sample size and statistical power for adaptive clinical trial design. nQuery is proprietary software developed and distributed by Statsols.

  9. Frutiger (typeface) - Wikipedia

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    Frutiger (pronounced [ˈfruːtɪɡər]) is a series of typefaces named after its Swiss designer, Adrian Frutiger. Frutiger is a humanist sans-serif typeface, intended to be clear and highly legible at a distance or at small text sizes.