- Industry: Computer
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- Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
A data structure that contains authentication and authorization information for a user. Windows creates the access token when the user logs on and the user's identity is confirmed. The access token contains the user's security ID (SID), the list of groups that the user is a member of, the list of privileges held by that user. Each process or thread started for the user inherits a copy of the access token. In some cases a user may have more than one access token, with different levels of authority.
Industry:Computer
A proactive, formalized process for decision-making and taking action to continuously assess what can go wrong, assess and quantify the identified risks, determine what risks are important to address, implement strategies to deal with those risks, and monitor the status of risks and mitigation activities.
Industry:Computer
The weeks of the year are assigned a number from 1 to 52, called week numbers. When you turn on week numbers, they appear on the left side of the Date Navigator in Calendar.
Industry:Computer
An identification code used to identify a publicly traded corporation on a particular stock market.
Industry:Computer
One of the criteria used for evaluating the success of a data mining algorithm. Fit is typically represented as a value between 0 and 1, and is calculated by taking the covariance between the predicted and actual values of evaluated cases and dividing by the standard deviations of the same predicted and actual values.
Industry:Computer
In an object-oriented programming language, the ability to redefine a routine in a derived class (a class that inherited its data structures and routines from another class).
Industry:Computer
The remaining amount after all deductions are applied. For sales orders and purchase orders, net amount is the balance after the discount is deducted.
Industry:Computer
In communications, the process of transferring a copy of a file from a local computer to a remote computer by means of a modem or network.
Industry:Computer
The elimination of leading (nonsignificant) zeros in a number. For example, zero suppression would truncate 000123.456 to 123.456.
Industry:Computer
