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Computer Science Courses
Operating System Definitions and Explanations
MBA Courses
Human Resource Management Definitions and Explanations
- 4-5th Rule, 401k Plan, Acceptance Rate, Active Practice, Adverse Selection...
- Cost Benefit Analysis, Craftunion, Criterion Related Validity, Cross Training, Culture...
- Hostile Environment, HR Audit, HR Generalist, HR Metrics, HR Specialist...
- Non-Exempt Employees, Off-Shoring, Open Shop, Organization Centered Career Planning, Organizational Commitment...
- Sabbatical, Safety, Salaries, Salting, Security Audit...
- Workers Compensation, Workflow Analysis, Wrongful Discharge, Yield Ratio...
Marketing Definitions and Explanations
- Activity-Based Cost (ABC), Adapted Global Marketing, Administered VMS, Adoption Process, Adoption...
- Break-Even Pricing (target return pricing), Breakeven Analysis, Brick-and-Click, Broker, Business Analysis...
- Consumer-Oriented marketing, Consumer-to-Business (C-to-B) Online Marketing, Consumer-to-Consumer (C-to-C) Online Marketing, Consumerist Movement, Consumption System...
- Design, Desirable Products, Differentiated (segmented) Marketing, Direct (company) Sales Force, Direct Marketing Channel...
- Generation X, Geographic Segmentation, Geographical Pricing, Global Firm, Goal Formulation...
- Lexicographic Heuristic, Licensed Product, Licensing, Life Stage, Life-Cycle Cost...
- Marketing Logistics (or physical distribution), Marketing Management, Marketing Metrics, Marketing Mix, Marketing Network...
- Order-routine Specification, Ordering Ease, Organization, Organizational Buying, Outside Sales Force (or field sales force)...
- Product Sales Force Structure, Product Specification, Product System, Product-Mix Pricing, Product-Penetration Percentage...
- Service Intangibility, Service Perishability, Service Profit Chain, Service Retailer, Service Variability...
- Telephone Marketing, Territorial Sales Force Structure, Test Marketing, Third-party Logistics (3PL) Provider, Threats...
Total Quality Management Definitions and Explanations
- 2x2 Design, 360 Degree Evaluation, 5W2H, Acceptable Quality Level, Acceptance Control Chart...
- Conflict Resolution, Conformance, Consultant Audit, Consumer's Risk, Contact Personnel...
- External Validation, Facilitator, Factorial Design, Failure Analysis Cost, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis...
- Malcolm Baldrige Award, Manufacturing System Design, Market Share Data, Matrix Diagram, Mean Time To Failure (MTTF)...
- Producer's Risk, Product Benchmarking, Product Data Management, Product Design Engineering, Product Idea Generation...
- Seven Tools of Quality, Single Sampling Plan, Single Sourcing, SIPOC, Situational Leadership Model...
- XY Matrix, Yield Losses...
Supply Chain Management Definitions and Explanations
- Critical Path Method (CPM), 3-D Printing, 5 Ss, ABC Analysis, ABC Inventory Control...
- Break-Even Analysis, Breakdown Maintenance, Breakthrough Improvement, Broad definition of Operations, Buckets...
- Continuous Processes, Continuous Review, Contracting Relationships, Control Chart, Control Charts...
- Differentiation, Directing, Disaggregation, Disaster Recovery, Diseconomies of Scale...
- Factor-Rating Method, Fail-Safeing, Failure Analysis, Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Failure Rate...
- Improvement Cycles, Independent Demand, Indirect Process Technology, Indirect Responsibilities of Operations Management, Infant Mortality...
- Limited, or Finite, Population, Line Balancing, Line Layout, Line of Fit, Linear Programming (LP)...
- Monte Carlo Method, Most Likely Time, Moving Averages, MRP Netting Process, Muda...
- Periodic Review, Perpetual Inventory Principle, Perpetual Inventory System, Pessimistic Time, Phantom Bills of Material...
- Production Flow Analysis (PFA, Production Order Quantity Model, Production, Productivity Variables, Productivity...
- Response, Retail Layout, Revenue (or yield) Management, Reverse Engineering, Reverse Logistics...
- Spatially Variable Costs, Speed, Stakeholders, Standard error of the estimate, Standard for the Exchange of Product Data (STEP)...
- Tracking Signal, Trade-Off Theory, Transformation Process Model, Transformed Resources, Transforming Resources...
- World Wide Web, X Chart, Yield Management...
Project Management Definitions and Explanations
- Ability to Develop People, Ability to Handle Stress, Acceptance Sampling, Accessibility, Accommodating or Smoothing...
- Committed Cost, Committee Sponsorship, Common Cause Variation, Communication Model, Communication Requirements Analysis...
- Customer Satisfaction, Customization and Integration, Data Table, Decision Making Under Certainty, Decision Theory School of Management...
- Finish to Start, Fixed Budget Method, Fixed Price Contract, Fixed Price Incentive Fee, Fixed Price With Economic Price Adjustment...
- Malcolm Baldrige National Award, Manageability, Management Elements, Management Review, Management Section of a Proposal...
- Percent Complete, Performance Measurement Baseline, Performance Specifications, Performing, Personal Communication...
- Project Reporting, Project Schedule Network Diagram, Project Schedule, Project Scope, Project Selection...
- Reward Power, Risk Acceptance, Risk Analysis, Risk Assessment Matrix, Risk Assessment...
- Start to Finish, Start to Start, Statement of Work, Statistical Sampling, Status Review Meeting...
- Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary, Work Breakdown Structure, Work Performance Data, Work Performance Report, Written Communication...
Organizational Behavior Definitions and Explanations
- Ability, Accommodating, Action Research, Adjourning Stage, Affect Intensity...
- Conflict Process, Conflict, Conformity, Conscientiousness, Consideration...
- Fiedler Contingency Model, Filtering, Five-Stage Group-Development Mode, Fixed Pie, Flexible Benefits...
- Job Enrichment, Job Involvement, Job Rotation, Job Satisfaction, Job Sharing...
- Organizing, Outcomes, Participative Management, Path Goal Theory, Perceived Conflict...
- Self-Actualization, Self-Concordance, Self-Determination Theory, Self-Efficacy, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy...
- Utilitarianism, Value System, Values, Variable-Pay Program, Virtual Organization...
Strategic Management Definitions and Explanations
- Above-Average Returns, Absenteeism, Acceptance Theory of Authority, Acquisition, Active Listening...
- Communication Networks, Communication Process, Communication, Communities of Practice, Competitive Action...
- Division of Work, Divisional Structure, Downsizing, Downward Communication, Dysfunctional Conflicts...
- Formal Communication, Formal Planning Department, Formalization, Forming Stage, Franchising...
- Interactionist View of Conflict, International Diversification, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Roles...
- Means-Ends Chain, Mechanistic Organization, Mentoring, Merger, Message...
- Ownership Concentration, Parochialism, Path-Goal Theory, Pay-for-Performance Programs, Perceived Organizational Support...
- Reward Power, Risk, Role Ambiguity, Role Conflicts, Role Overload...
- Storming Stage, Strategic Action or a Strategic Response, Strategic Alliance, Strategic Business Unit (SBU), Strategic Competitiveness...
- Uncertainty, Unit Production, Unity of command, Unity of direction, Universality of Management...
College Courses
College Biology Definitions and Explanations
- Abo Blood Group System, Acid Rain, Active Transport, Adaptive Evolution, Adaptive Immune Response...
- Climate and Affects of Global Climate Change, Community, Comparing Sexual and Asexual Reproduction, Component of Human Food, Conditions That Affect Transpiration Rate...
- Historical Basis of Modern Understanding, Horticulture, Human Alimentary Canal, Human Excretory System, Human Heart...
- Plant Sensory System, Plant Tissue, Plant Transport Systems, Plastids, Platelets...
College Chemistry Definitions and Explanations
- Acid Base Indicator, Acid, Activation Energy, Active Site, Active Transport...
- Dehydration, Delocalized Electrons, Denaturation, Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA), Desorption...
- General Gas Equation, Genetic Code, Genetic Engineering, Genetic Fingerprinting, Giant Covalent Structure...
- Oxidizing Agent, Partial Pressure, Partition Coefficient, Peptide Bond, Periodicity...
English Grammar Definitions and Explanations
University Courses
Microbiology Definitions and Explanations
- β-Lactam Ring, β-Lactam, β-Lactamase, β-Oxidation Pathway, 3, 5-Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate (cAMP)...
- Agglutinates, Agglutination, Agglutinin, Agglutinogen, Agranulocyte...
- Anergy, Angstrom, Anion, Anisogamy, Anneal...
- Asepsis, Aseptate Hypha, Aseptic Technique, Assimilatory Sulphate Reduction, Associative Nitrogen Fixation...
- Barotolerant, Basal Body, Base Analogues, Basement Membrane, Basic Dyes...
- Booster, Botulin, Bradykinin, Bright-Field Microscope, Broad Spectrum...
- Chaperone Proteins, Chemical Bond, Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Chemiosmotic Hypothesis, Chemoautotroph...
- Coding Sequences (CDs), Codon, Coenocytic, Coenzyme, Coevolution...
- Constitutive Gene, Constitutive Mutant, Constructed Wetlands, Consumer, Contact Transmission...
General Biology Definitions and Explanations
- ABC hypothesis, Abiotic stress, Abortion, Abscisic acid (ABA), Abscisic Acid...
- Apical bud, Apical dominance, Apical meristems, Apoplast, Apoplastic route...
- Bulk feeders, Bulk flow, Bundle sheath, C4 plants, Calorie...
- Codominance, Codon, Coenocytic fungi, Cofactor, Cohesins...
- Deuteromycetes, Development, Diabetes Mellitus, Diaphragm, Diastole...
- Endothelium, Endothermic, Endotoxins, Energy, Enhancers...
- Founder effect, Fragmentation, Frameshift mutation, Frequency dependent selection, Fruit...
- Heat shock proteins, Heat, Helicase, Hemoglobin, Hemolymph...
- Inborn immunodeficiency, Incomplete dominance, Incomplete flowers, Indeterminate growth, Inducible enzymes...
- Lysogenic cycle, Lysosome, Lytic cycle, Macronutrients, Macrophages...
- Monosaccharide, Monosomy, Morphogenesis, Morphological species concept, mRNA...
- Orbital, Organ identity genes, Organ, Organelle, Organic chemistry...
- Photosystem, Phototropism, Phyllotaxy, Phylogenetic species concept, Phylogeny...
- Protein phosphatase, Protein, Proteome, Proteomics, Proto oncogenes...
- Root, RT-PCR, Ruminants, Salivary glands, Saturated fatty acid...
- Sporophylls, Stabilizing selection, Stamens, Starch, Statoliths...
- Thyroid gland, Tidal volume, Tight junctions, Tissue specific proteins, Tissue...
- Vestigial structures, Viral envelope, Viral movement proteins, Viroids, Virulent phage...