Glossary
PROMISLingua has a very innovative approach which requires a common understanding and a common nomenclature. The following section presents a list of specialist words and their definitions
- M-learning (mobile learning)
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Learning that takes place via such wireless devices as cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), or laptop computers.
Source: Learning Circuits
- M-work
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The main concept in M-work is anything, anytime, anywhere – i.e. the access to relevant information independent of time and space. This concept enables flexibility in the work process and is a driver for productivity improvements.
M-work will change the user behaviour like Internet technology changed the working day for most of us. Specific user communities with special needs will lead to develop good M-work concepts.
- Mailing list
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An e-mail system that includes multiple recipients as part of its address. See e-mail.
- Management philosophy statements
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Formal enunciations of the company or CEO s way of doing business.
Source: http://www-old.itcilo.org
- Management System
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A management system is the collection of policy, rules and guidance that control and guide processes to achieve the organisation’s objectives. The nature of a Management System is structural and acts on processes which are dynamic in nature.
The Management System may be written down within formal controlled Documents (A6) or may be defined within other myPROMIS Elements e.g. software structure can define part of the Management System. Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Marketing
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Marketing is "the process of planning and executing the pricing, promotion, and distribution of goods, ideas, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals."
Source: The American Marketing Association
- Markup
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Text or codes added to a document to convey information about it. Usually used to formulate a document s layout or create links to other documents or information servers. HTML is a common form of markup.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Material (structure) A5
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Product, materials, substances, energy, forming part of or produced by the business process. May be biological, radioactive etc.
Note these may be desired or undesired (e.g. waste is also ‘material’).
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Mbps (megabits per second)
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A measurement of data transmission speed in a communication system; the number of megabits transmitted or received each second.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Megabyte
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Although mega is Greek for a million, a megabyte actually contains 1,048,576 bytes (1,024 x 1,024 bytes). In other words, a million bytes is actually less than a megabyte. Remember that the next time you buy a hard disk or try to fit files onto a floppy disk. Abbreviated as MB.
- Member
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Member, means a legal entity, an international organisation, or the JRC, other than a beneficiary, which has concluded a membership agreement signed with a beneficiary in agreement with the Community and in accordance with this grant agreement and having, by virtue of that membership agreement, the same rights and obligations as the beneficiary unless the former stipulates otherwise.
Source: European Commission
- Membership agreement
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Means the agreement concluded between the participants for the specific needs of the project in accordance with the conditions of this grant agreement.
Source: European Commission
- Mentoring
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A career development process in which less experienced workers are matched with more experienced colleagues for guidance. Mentoring can occur either through formal programs or informally as required and may be delivered in-person or by using various media.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Metadata
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Information about content that enables it to be stored in and retrieved from a database.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Metatag
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An HTML tag identifying the contents of a Website. Information commonly found in the metatag includes copyright info, key words for search engines, and formatting descriptions of the page.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Microwave
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Electromagnetic waves that travel in a straight line and are used to and from satellites and for short distances up to 30 miles.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Mirror site
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Because the Internet population has exploded in recent years, a lot of archive servers can't cope with the load. One solution is to create an exact copy of a server – a process called mirroring.
Mirror sites divert some of the traffic from the original site. It's not unusual to find a dozen or more mirrors of busy ftp sites.
- Modem
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A modem is an external box or internal circuitry that converts computer data into sound that can be transmitted over phone lines. First used to send telegrams, early modems alternated between two different tones.
This is called modulation, and the process of modulating (and demodulating at the receiving end) gave the modem its name. These days modems transmit data with lots of different tones, signals, and complex mathematical processing, so modem is a bit of a misnomer.
- Module
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A module is a defined section of PROMIS. Modules can contain sub-modules.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Mozilla
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The original name for Netscape's Navigator browser through version 1.1. Netscape "hacker" Jamie Zawinski claims credit for the name, while artist Dave Titus turned Mozilla into Netscape's original mascot. Mo has since been replaced by Netscape's familiar nautical imagery.
- MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group)
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1) A high-quality video file format that uses compression to keep file sizes relatively small. 2) The subgroup of the International Organization for Standardization responsible for setting the standards for this format.
Source: Learning Circuits
- MUD (multi-user dimension or multi-user domain)
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A simulated virtual world in which users interact with each other, often by taking on character identities called avatars. Originally created for game-playing, MUDs are growing in popularity for online learning and virtual community-building.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Multicasting
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The transmission of information to more than one recipient. For example, sending an email message to a list of people. Teleconferencing and videoconferencing can also use multicasting. See also broadcasting and unicasting.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Multimedia
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Encompasses interactive text, images, sound, and color. Multimedia can be anything from a simple PowerPoint slide slow to a complex interactive simulation.
Source: Learning Circuits
- myPROMIS
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myPROMIS®, the core of the PROMIS® service, is an intranet, as well as internet integrated management solution for compliance and good management. This management tool provides a structure and functionality to systematically:
•Record and manage applicable legislation and associated actions required to be performed by the organisation;
•Record and manage an organisation’s structural and dynamic data;
•Maintain a risk informed integrated management system based on a plan, do, check, act cycle that promotes continual improvement;
•Manage quality, health, safety and the environment through a single integrated approach;
•Facilitate compliance to recognised management system standards.
Source: PROMIS@Service
- MySQL
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A true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. SQL is the most popular database language in the world. MySQL is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs/libraries.
