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2 unusual facts about Users


Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

These articles, introducing the term "critical appraisal", appeared in the Canadian Medical Association Journal beginning in 1981 and were immensely popular.

In 1990 Dr. Gordon Guyatt introduced the term "evidence-based medicine" to describe a paradigm shift in medical practice that stressed the role of rigorous, systematic evidence from clinical research in conjunction with patients’ values and preferences in clinical decision-making.


And the Sky Full of Stars

Together they construct a sophisticated neural device which causes its users to experience a highly realistic but illusionary environment.

Apple QuickTake

For users with an Apple Macintosh running System 7 up to Mac OS 9 with a serial port, the QuickTake 200 can be plugged directly into the computer using the Apple QuickTake camera software.

Art of Fighting

The drug affects users in a similar manner as the potion in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Ascender Corporation

This software combined ring tones, wallpaper backgrounds, themes and fonts into packaged sets that automated the process of acquiring and applying multiple components for users to personalize their Windows Mobile phone.

Azendoo

The application has partnered with Evernote, Box, Dropbox and Google so that users can centralize and share all of their informational sources confidentially.

Back to My Mac

Users must have a router that supports either Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) or NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP) with either of those features enabled in their connected router.

Ben Briand

The cult short film was voted Best Narrative film on Vimeo by its 3 million users at the Vimeo Awards in New York City 2010.

Bifocals

Computer monitors are generally placed directly in front of users and can lead to muscle fatigue due to the unusual straight and constant movement of the head.

Business Objects

Enterprise Reporting (SAP Crystal Reports) access, format, and deliver printable information to large populations of users.

Churchill Falls Generating Station

Its officials made pitches to large industrial power users, but aluminium companies Alcan, Alcoa and British Aluminium all rejected the possibility of building smelters in Labrador.

Costpoint

Among Costpoint users are L-3 Communications, CACI, Northrop Grumman, CSC, Serco Inc., SAIC, Lockheed Martin, Orbital Science Corporation, Triple Canopy Inc and SGIS.

Dart v. Craigslist, Inc.

2d 961 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 20, 2009), is a decision by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in which the court held that Craigslist, as an Internet service provider, was immune from wrongs committed by their users under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA).

Drug Resistance Strategies Project

The publications contain all aspects covered by the project; some of them being the principle of cultural grounding in school-based substance use prevention seen in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology and promoting reduced and discontinued substances among adolescent substance users, seen in the Prevention Science.

Edifice Technologies

Using the latest RFID technologies integrated with its patent-pending LightsOn software, the company enables users to visualize their environment in 3D.

Edit mask

Aspect of command called user mask, allowing "masked" computer users to have write access on some shared resources in Unix and Linux

Educational software

Some programming languages from this period, particularly BASIC (1963), and LOGO (1967) can also be considered educational, as they were specifically targeted to students and novice computer users.

Final Cut Pro X

FCP X was announced in April 2011 simultaneously at the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro Users Group held at Bally's Las Vegas and at the NAB Show in the Las Vegas Convention Center and released in June 2011.

Fosscomm

The fourth FOSSCOMM took place at the University of Patras on May 7–8, 2011 and was co-organized by the department's Laboratory for Computing and the Patras Linux Users Group.

Game creation system

Some packages, such as Mark Overmars' Game Maker and Conitec's Gamestudio, include a more comprehensive scripting language under the surface to allow users more leeway in defining their games' behavior.

IBM Blueworks Live

Blueworks Live use its main page to inform users about all the changes occurring to company processes, where the user is involved (private), or about information regarding useful and news about wider BPM communities.

Income Per Page View

Total Income of an entity or a project divided by the number of page views, when Income is generated through Page Views from Users.

InstallFree

InstallFree Management Console (IFMC) is a virtual MMC-based management utility that manages IFV Applications and assigns them to Active Directory objects (OUs, Groups, Users and Computers) read from the Active Directory or LDAP schema.

Instant WebKiosk

Instant WebKiosk/UB, Unrestricted Browsing, is a live, browser-only (only browser interface will show up) operating system designed for web kiosks and multi-user web workstations: it is a fully customizable operating system for Internet browsing purposes, which protects privacy; users can change its settings but after a reset the operating system defaults to original values, except for persistent settings.

InterBase

Jim Starkey was working at DEC on their Datatrieve network database product when he came up with an idea for a system to manage concurrent changes by many users.

Internet censorship in India

On 21 July 2011, all file hosting websites were blocked by ISPs to prevent piracy of the film Singham, causing anger amongst Internet users.

ISJ

The Investor Services Journal, a magazine for financial professionals; users and practitioners of investor services.

Jean E. Sammet

The meeting involved 25 engineers, programmers, marketing representatives, and salesmen who were involved with the UNIVAC, as well as representatives from users such as General Electric, Arthur Andersen, and the U.S. Census.

Kissing gate

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in England has suggested in this context that kissing gates and stiles should be in time replaced or supplemented by a type that would allow access to a wider range of users.

KPovModeler

The users needed to type commands in the raw POV-Ray to implement a non-standard texture or finish.

Lehal

Dr. Gurpreet Singh Lehal is a professor at Punjabi University, Patiala, and is credited with designing Punjabi language software that enables users to utilise the language with computers.

Mailsort

Mail users who can present mail sorted by Mailsort code and in quantities of 4,000 upwards (1,000 upwards for large letters and packets) receive a discounted postal rate.

Mbox

Other systems, such as Microsoft Exchange Server and the Cyrus IMAP server store mailboxes in centralised databases managed by the mail system and not directly accessible by individual users.

Microsoft SharedView

Users can be invited to join a session by email or IM.

Miracast

It allows users to, for example, echo display from a phone or tablet onto a TV, share a laptop screen with the conference room projector in real-time, and watch live programs from a home cable box on a tablet.

National Association of Boat Owners

There are no specific regional meetings or sub-committees, but each county has a Regional Representative on the Council, a River Users Coordinator to look after the special interests of boat owners on rivers and a Continuous Cruising Representative.

NeoModus Direct Connect

NeoModus Direct Connect was a file-sharing client for Windows and Mac users that provided file-sharing capabilities for any type of file within a hub-centric, peer-to-peer network and contained adware.

Netsplit

Later, server C may relink (reconnect) to a server (or servers) on the network and the users who appeared to have quit will rejoin; the process of sending this updated information to all servers on the network is called a netburst (or sync).

Platinnetz

According to the standard form contract, users are responsible for information, data, texts, images, and links to other websites posted on the communication platform.

Priceline

Priceline.com, a commercial website which helps users obtain discount rates for travel-related items such as airline tickets and hotel stays

Prosumer

For example, Lego Mindstorms allows users to download software from Lego's website so that the users can edit and update software as they wish.

Secure Mobile Architecture

Its central features were the use of the Host Identity Protocol (HIP), cryptographic identities, secure directories, and location to make policy-based information about users and the network available to applications, management systems, and intelligent network components.

South African Class NG6 4-4-0

Known users were, amongst others, Premier Portland Cement in Bulawayo, the Rhodesian Native Timber Concessions at Gwaai, the Cam and Motor Mine at Gatooma, the Selukwe Peak Light Railway of the Selukwe Chrome Mine, the Lupane Forest Estates, the Igusi Saw Mills and the Arcturus Mine east of Salisbury, all these in Rhodesia.

SpaghettiOs

The post also quickly spawned parodies, as other users edited the cartoon SpaghettiO into photos of other tragic events (such as the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Hindenburg disaster, and Titanic).

TextAmerica

TextAmerica (or TA for short) was one of the first online photo album or moblog sites that allowed users to upload pictures directly from a digital camera or camera phone or images manipulated with photo editing software to a personal page.

TiVo

The baring of one of Jackson's breasts at the end of her duet with Justin Timberlake, which caused a flood of outraged phone calls to CBS, was replayed a record number of times by TiVo users.

Tymnet

Tymshare was founded in 1964 as a time sharing company, selling computer time and software packages for users.

VI Technology

Authorized users can access test results from anywhere on the network using a Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser.

Voodoo Amplification

Noted users of Voodoo's production amps and circuit mods are (according to the manufacturer) include Vivian Campbell and Phil Collen (of Def Leppard), Doug Aldrich (of Whitesnake), Michael Wilton (of Queensrÿche), Kip Winger, Jack Frost, Richard Fortus (of Guns N' Roses), Buz McGrath and Ken Susi (of Unearth) and famed producer Michael Wagener.

W Vision

Developed by a joint venture between the Impress Group and the Watanabe Productions Group, the Web site provided videos from various content provider and producers, using software including RealPlayer, VDOlive Player, and FutureSplash (now Adobe Flash.) The service started in the end of the 1990s, hence the low-quality streaming videos to accommodate the Internet users mostly connecting via dial-up service.

Warren Gish

to allow users to retrieve individual sequences in part or in whole, natively, translated or reverse-complemented, and able to dump the entire contents of a BLAST database back into human-readable FASTA format.


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