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Sensitive

Psychic, a person who professes an ability to perceive information through extrasensory perception


Address Windowing Extensions

An article published in Dr. Dobb's Journal in 2004 noted that memory allocated using Address Windowing Extensions will not be written to the pagefile, and suggested that AWE regions could therefore be used as a way of protecting sensitive application data such as encryption keys.

Aras Habib

Chalabi's Pentagon connection, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, decided to close off funding following emerging disclosures that some of Chalabi's INC aides supplied sensitive information about U.S. security operations in Baghdad to the Iranian government.

Australian Protective Service

Protection of sensitive defence establishments, including Defence Headquarters at Russell Offices in Canberra; the joint Australian/US communications facility at Pine Gap in the Northern Territory; the former atomic testing site at Maralinga in South Australia; the Australian Defence Signals facility at Geraldton and the naval communications station at Exmouth, both in Western Australia

Blotting paper

Small squares of blotting paper attached to disposable plastic strips are impregnated with pH sensitive compounds usually extracted from lichens, especially Roccella tinctoria.

C. E. K. Mees Observatory

The observatory is named after C. E. Kenneth Mees, "in honor of his pioneering work in the development of sensitive photographic emulsions for use in astronomy."

Ceefax

The first system employed a modified Muirhead drum facsimile transmitter, and hard-copy printer using pressure-sensitive "till-roll" paper passing over a drum with a raised helix of steel wire.

Christoph Meiners

Meiners wrote that the noblest race was the Celts, and they were able to conquer various parts of the world, were more sensitive to heat and cold and their delicacy is shown by the way they are selective about what they eat.

Claude Dansey

Alexander Korda used his company, London Films, as an excuse to visit sensitive areas while "searching for film locations".

Cybernetic Serendipity

Bruce Lacey contributed his radio-controlled robots and a light-sensitive owl.

DIA in popular culture

:*Need To Know - a DIA operative George Roca comes in conflict with investigators from NCIS, who are not let on a sensitive DIA operation.

Directorate 14

Headquartered in Salman Pak, this branch was one of the largest and most important directorates within the Iraqi Intelligence Service, and was responsible for the most secret and sensitive operations undertaken outside of Iraq, including espionage and assassination.

Electronic waste

Cadmium: Found in light-sensitive resistors, corrosion-resistant alloys for marine and aviation environments, and nickel-cadmium batteries.

Empathy

For instance, Tania Singer claims that clinicians or caregivers must take care not to be too sensitive to the emotions of others, to over-invest their own emotions, at the risk of draining away their own resourcefulness.

Grant procedure before the European Patent Office

For example, in the United Kingdom, it used to be required to obtain clearance for all inventions but now it is only prohibited for a UK resident to file an overseas patent application for inventions in certain sensitive technical areas without obtaining clearance through the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office first.

H1 neuron

Neurons sensitive to motion during flight are not specific to flies, and have been found in numerous nondipterous insect groups including Odonata, Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera.

Health Initiative of the Americas

Medical, Nursing and Pharmacy students spend a month in Cuernavaca, Mexico learning how to deal with Spanish-speaking patients in a culturally sensitive manner.

High tension leads

Radio suppressor type spark plug wires use compressed carbon powder as a conductor, rather than solid metal wire, to reduce radio frequency interference (RFI) produced by the wires, which may cause malfunction of sensitive electronic systems in modern vehicles.

Hot mirror

Some early digital cameras designed for visible light capture, such as the Associated Press NC2000 and Nikon Coolpix 950, were unusually sensitive to infrared radiation, and tended to produce colours that were contaminated with infrared.

John Hiatt discography

Backing vocalist and whistle solo on "Too Sensitive for This World", on the Ben Vaughn LP Dressed In Black, Enigma Records, 1990

Julian Bell

; the identity of this woman became a sensitive issue when the Chinese-British novelist Hong Ying published a fictionalized account, K: The Art of Love in 1999.

Keytar

Also in 2010, Mad Catz released the Wireless Pro Keyboard for Rock Band 3, a 25-key velocity-sensitive MIDI-compatible keytar controller.

L. Martin Griffin, Jr.

He criticized efforts by Senator Dianne Feinstein to allow the continued operation of a shellfish farm and tasting bar in a sensitive coastal area of Point Reyes National Seashore.

Lee S. Wolosky

Wolosky's work at the White House also included directing sensitive operations, including leading U.S. government efforts to apprehend "Merchant of Death" Viktor Bout, the Taliban and al Qaeda-linked arms trafficker, who is now awaiting trial in New York.

Lufthansa Cargo

In May 2011, Lufthansa Cargo opened another hub at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, in order to transport temperature-sensitive goods, especially pharmaceuticals, between South East Asia and Europe (and onwards to the United States).

Mallu Magalhães

Prior to the release of her fourth album, the title track "Highly Sensitive" was used as the soundtrack for Windows 8 commercial ads.

Media of South Sudan

The US based and USAID financed Internews media development organization has set up six radio stations in conflict sensitive areas, all of which operate under a loose network supported by the organization’s main office in Juba.

Metal gate

Earlier PMOS technologies were not sensitive to this effect because the positively-charged sodium was naturally attracted towards the negatively-charged gate, and away from the channel, minimizing threshold voltage shifts.

Neuroscience of gender differences

Estradiol influences cognitive function, specifically by enhancing learning and memory in a dose-sensitive manner.

Northern elephant seal

Elephant seals do not have a developed a system of echolocation in the manner of cetaceans, but their vibrissae, which are sensitive to vibrations, are assumed to play a role in search of food.

Peter Nitsch

"These SHOPHOUSES captures show the hidden side of working Bangkok few people know: a fascinating world of color, history and industry. I admire Peter Nitsch's sensitive photography that illuminates historic places that I hope will not vanish." – Sujata Massey, Author

Photo paper

Photographic paper, paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals, used for making photographic prints.

Phyllis Morse

Additionally, on retirement, the Quapaw tribe presented them with colorful tribal blankets in honor of the sensitive work that had been undertaken on their ancestors’ burial mounds.

Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville

However, when the emperor was shown some sensitive plants (Mimosa pudica) that d'Incarville had grown, he was so amused that he allowed the Jesuit into the gardens.

Postencephalitic parkinsonism

The film Awakenings (starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro) and its respective book based on genuine cases reported by Oliver Sacks deal with sensitive and largely accurate topics relating to this disease.

Quinidine

Quinidine also blocks the slowly inactivating, tetrodotoxin-sensitive Na current, the slow inward calcium current (ICa), the rapid (IKr) and slow (IKs) components of the delayed potassium rectifier current, the inward potassium rectifier current (IKI), the ATP-sensitive potassium channel (IKATP) and Ito.

RAAF Signals Operator Technical

Technical Signals Intelligence is the most sensitive form of intelligence for the Australian Government.

Release agent

Release liners for pressure-sensitive adhesive laminates and tapes

Roger Bingham

Philip Hefner wrote that the series "represents some of the best and most sensitive popular discussion of cutting-edge science available".

Rudolf Schmidt

His brother Hans-Thilo Schmidt sold details of the Germans' Enigma machine and other sensitive military information to the French Deuxieme Bureau from 1931 until the German invasion of France in 1940.

Shen Jingdong

His painting The Bugle realized in 2012 illustrates perfectly his work, allowing each observer to have a new look on the contemporary art, but also a reflection and interpretation intellectual, sensitive and emotional.

Synare

The Synare was a drum synthesizer, meaning it was essentially a synthesizer, but instead of being controlled by a keyboard, it was triggered by hitting rubber pads which were pressure-sensitive.

The Uplift War

The ecologically sensitive galactic civilization killed all Bururalli, demoted their patrons, the Nahalli, to clients of the Thennanin, and began working to preserve and repair the remaining ecosphere of Garth.

Transit-timing variation

This provides an extremely sensitive method capable of detecting additional planets in the system with masses potentially as small as that of Earth.

Tyler Kent

With a position that required him to encode and decode sensitive telegrams, Kent had access to a wide range of secret documents, especially the communications between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he began to take many of the more interesting ones home with him.

Violin making and maintenance

Sound post adjustment is as much art as science, depending on the ears, experience, structural sense, and sensitive touch of the luthier.

Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument

Seeking to provide greater protection to the sensitive coral reef resources, President Clinton established the Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument on January 17, 2001.

Wild Grinders

Emo Crys (voiced by Cam Clarke) – The most sensitive of the Wild Grinders, Emo Crys has the soul of an artist and a sensitive side he sometimes tries to hide from his friends.

Woodward effect

In 2006, Martin Tajmar, Nembo Buldrini, Klaus Marhold and Bernhard Seifert, researchers of the Austrian Research Centers reported results of a study of the effect using a very sensitive thrust balance.

Zero-point energy

In the critically acclaimed game series from Valve Corporation, Half-Life, a "zero-point energy field manipulator" (popularly known as 'gravity gun'), meant to handle sensitive, anomalous and hazardous materials, is used as both a weapon to throw objects at enemies in high speeds, as a primary attack, and a tool to solve physics puzzles consisting in moving objects of considerable weight.


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