- Netscape Navigator
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Browser software that enables users to view Webpages.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Network
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A set of computers that all use the same protocol in order to exchange information among themselves.
- Newbie or Newby
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A newcomer to the nets, who reveals his or her inexperience by lack of knowledge of net conventions, netiquette, vocabulary, and know-how.
- Newsgroup
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An online discussion hosted on the Usenet network. Sometimes also called a forum.
Source: Learning Circuits
- nslookup
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A common Internet utility like ping and traceroute. Given an IP address or a DNS address, it will look up and show the corresponding DNS or IP address.
There are nslookup utility programs available for every operating system, which you can use with a PPP or networked or shell account. The commonly used FTP program WS_FTP Pro includes a number of utilities including nslookup.
- Object
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An Object is an element that is not capable of containing further elements within a container tree.A typical object would be document or a piece of infrastructure whose components would be material (A5).
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Object-oriented
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A method of software-development that groups related functions and data into reusable chunks. Properly handled, object-oriented programming can reduce development time on new projects.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
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When your computer gets a fax or scans in text, all it sees are graphical bits on a virtual page. That text is not usable, searchable, or editable. If you pass the page through an OCR program, the software converts the shapes on it into a text document.
However, few documents are perfectly recognized and the errors are frequent if the type is small or the scan unclear. But the conversion is often faster than typing text manually.
- ODBC (Open Database Connectivity)
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An application program interface to access information from numerous types of databases, including Access, dbase, DB2, and so forth.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Online
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The state in which a computer is connected to another computer or server via a network. A computer communicating with another computer.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Online learning
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Learning delivered by Web-based or Internet-based technologies. See Web-based training and Internet-based training.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Open Source
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The basic idea behind open source is very simple. When programmers on the Internet can read, redistribute, and modify the source for a piece of software (or any other form of knowledge), it evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, and people fix bugs.
Source: www.opensource.org
- Optical fiber
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Optical fiber cables consist of thin filaments of glass (or other transparent materials), which can carry beams of light. A laser transmitter encodes frequency signals into pulses of light and sends them down the optical fiber to a receiver, which translates the light signals back into frequencies.
Less susceptible to noise and interference than other kinds of cables, optical fibers can transmit data greater distances without amplification. But because the glass filaments are fragile, optical fiber must be run underground rather than overhead on telephone poles.
- Origination site
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The location from which a teleconference originates.
Source: Learning Circuits
- OS (operating system)
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A computer by itself is essentially dumb bits of wire and silicon. An operating system knows how to talk to this hardware and can manage a computer's functions, such as allocating memory, scheduling tasks, accessing disk drives, and supplying a user interface.
Without an operating system, software developers would have to write programs that directly accessed hardware - essentially reinventing the wheel with every new program.
With an operating system, such as Windows NT or Mac OS 8, developers can write to a common set of programming interfaces called APIs and let the operating system do the dirty work of talking to the hardware.
- Packet
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A bundle of data transmitted over a network. Packets have no set size; they can range from one character to hundreds of characters.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Participant
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Means a beneficiary or a member.
Source: European Commission
- Parties
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Means the Community and the beneficiary(ies).
Source: European Commission
- Password
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Secret code of letters and numbers needed to gain access to a time-sharing computer or FTP system, or to protect Web pages.
- PDA (personal digital assistant)
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Handheld computer device used to organize personal information such as contacts, schedules, and so forth. Data can usually be transferred to a desktop computer by cable or wireless transmission.
Source: Learning Circuits
- PDF (Portable Document Format)
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File format developed by Adobe Systems to enable users of any hardware or software platform to view documents exactly as they were created – with fonts, images, links, and layouts as they were originally designed.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Peer-to-peer network (P2P)
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A communications network that enables users to connect their computers and share files directly with other users, without having to go through a centralized server. Groove is an example of an application that runs on a peer-to-peer network.
Source: Learning Circuits
- People (structure) A3
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All types of people (stakeholders) within an organisation and interacted with externally. People may occupy a post within an organisation and additionally be appointed to a role such as being the appointed first aider or to manage a specific project.
Source: PROMIS@Service
- Perl
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Perl is a general-purpose programming language invented in 1987 by Larry Wall. With over one million users worldwide, it has become the language of choice for Web development, text processing, Internet services, mail filtering, graphical programming, systems administration, and every other task requiring portable and easily-developed solutions.
- Personalization
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Tailoring Web content to an individual user. Can be accomplished by a user entering preferences or by a computer guessing about the user s preferences.
Source: Learning Circuits
- PHP
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PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source server side programming language extensively used for web scripts and to process data passed via the Common Gateway Interface from HTML forms etc.
PHP can be written as scripts that reside on the server and may produce HTML output that downloads to the web browser. Alternatively, PHP can be embedded within HTML pages that are then saved with a .php file extension.
- Ping
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Packet InterNet Groper is a program and UNIX command that helps testing and debugging network and/or Internet connections. An 'Echo' command is sent to a specified computer and then waits for a response. The result is a report that displays the success or failure, usually a report back of a timed response in seconds, of the intended action.
- Pixel (Picture Element)
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Tiny dots that make up a computer image. The more pixels a computer monitor can display, the better the image resolution and quality. On a color monitor, every pixel is composed of a red, a green, and a blue dot that are small enough to appear as a single entity.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Plan
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‘Plan’ forms the first stage of the PDCA natural improvement cycle.
Planning establishes the objectives to be achieved and the processes and related structural elements required to achieve them. Source: PROMIS@Service
- Plan, Do, Check, Act PDCA
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The PDCA is a natural cycle used by conscious animals to assess what must be done to perform something successfully before doing it, together with checking success and finally reviewing and taking action to continually improve when it it is done again.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Plug-and-play
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The ability of a personal computer s operating system to recognize and install with little to no intervention by the user new peripheral devices that are added to the computer.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Plug-in
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An accessory program that adds capabilities to the main program. Used on Webpages to display multimedia content.
Source: Learning Circuits
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
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The patent-free graphics compression format developed by Macromedia expected to replace GIF. PNG offers advanced graphics features such as 48-bit color.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Point-to-multipoint
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Transmission between multiple locations using a bridge.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Point-to-point
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Transmission between two locations.
Source: Learning Circuits
- POP (Post Office Protocol)
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The set of rules and standards that govern the retrieval of email messages from a mail server.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Portal
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A Website that acts as a doorway to the Internet or a portion of the Internet, targeted towards one particular subject. Also see learning portal.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Post
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To place a message in a public message forum. Also, to place an HTML page on the World Wide Web.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Power users
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Advanced, sophisticated users of technology (usually a computer application or an operating system) who know more than just the basics needed to operate it.
Source: Learning Circuits
- PPP
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A software package that enables a user to connect directly to the Internet over a telephone line.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Pre-Existing Know-How
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"Pre-existing know-how" means information, other than knowledge, held by the participants prior to the conclusion of the grant agreement or the membership agreement or acquired in parallel with them and necessary for carrying out the project, as well as copyright or rights attaching to such information following applications for, or the issue or registration of, patents, designs and models, plant varieties, additional certificates or other similar forms of protection.
Source: European Commission
- Pre-financing
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Any part of the Community financial contribution which is paid in order to provide advance funds to permit the work on the project to begin, as specified in Article 3.1, point a) of this Annex and any periodic instalments as specified in Article 3.1, point b) of this Annex.
Source: European Commission
- Processes (dynamics) B1
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Processes transform inputs into outputs and are hosted by structure and its elements.Processes can have desired but also undesired outcomes such as harming people, harming the environment and displeasing customers and other stakeholders.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Profit
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Shall mean any surplus of actual receipts attributable to the project over the costs, whether duly established or confirmed in the case of other outside funding, or whether determined by applying the principles laid down to establish the total actual costs of the project.
Source: European Commission
- Program
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See application.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Project
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Means all the work referred to in Annex I to this grant agreement.
Source: European Commission
- Project commencement date
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Means the date referred to in Article 2.1 of this grant agreement.
Source: European Commission
- Project deliverables
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Means the reports, requests for payments and financial statements referred to in Article 4 of this grant agreement and Article 4 of this Annex as well as any element designated as such in Annex I to this grant agreement.
Source: European Commission
- PROMIS Qualified Consultant
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A qualified consultant (ISO and/or EMAS and/or OSHAS and others) or recognized*, experienced and competent technical expert, who provides advice, resources and training to Small and Medium Enterprises and other organisations in required aspects of:
• Design and implementation of fully integrated management systems addressing: quality, health, safety and environmental good practice;
• Regulatory and management standards compliance;
• Risk management;
• Performance monitoring;
• Change and continual improvement;
• Certification of integrated management systems.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- PROMIS@Service
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PROMIS@Service, means the company established in May 2008 in Luxembourg to commercialise the PROMIS® solution and services in Europe and beyond
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
