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Logical access control

Logical access controls are tools used for identification, authentication, authorization, and accountability in computer information systems.


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Alex Pettit

Pettit is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society and teaches information system classes at the University of Phoenix.

Aligned Assets

Originally working as MapInfo resellers and Geographical Information System (GIS) developers, the company saw early success by securing contracts with companies such as the BBC, Experian and Orange (brand).

Basic needs

The Municipality of Rosario, Batangas, Philippines implemented its Aksyon ng Bayan Rosario 2001 And Beyond Human and Ecological Security Plan using this concept as a core strategy through the Minimum Basic Needs Approach to Improved Quality of Life - Community-Based Information System (MBN-CBIS) prescribed by the Philippine Government.

Bernard Hyland

Each of the species described in the information system has the voucher evidence of dried, pressed, mounted specimens and preserved, bottled, wet specimens, held in the Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Cairns.

Bloomfield Hall Schools

In Lahore, one of its sister institutions, University College Lahore, offers degree programmes of the University of London in disciplines including economics, management, accounting, law and information system.

British Rail Class 168

The Clubman fleet has problems with its passenger information system, which is based on GPRS and GSM technology, but frequently fails to accurately find its position, resulting in misleading information being displayed to passengers.

Chester Rural Cemetery

Two monuments in the cemetery have been documented by the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System: "Sorrow" by Samuel Murray, and the Civil War Memorial, by Martin Milmore.

Donald N. Frey

He was instrumental in promoting the first successful CD-ROM based information system, designing the dealer auto parts catalog for General Motors, by David Gump, to be distributed to dealers on CD.

ELegalix

eLegalix is Allahabad High Court Judgment Information System developed by Computer Centre, High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.

J-1 visa

Electronic records on J-1 visitors and their dependents are maintained in Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program by their program sponsor.

Kalar, Iraq

The University of Garmian, a satellite campus of University of Sulaymaniyah, majors in agriculture.beside many of other departments university of Kalar is the first scientific center in the area which provides Geographic Information System laboratory for post graduated students.

Keyword

Index term, a term used as a keyword to retrieve documents in an information system such as a catalog or a search engine

Latin American Bibliography

Nowadays, the Latin-American Bibliography is composed by the following databases: CLASE (Latin-American Citations in Social Sciences and Humanities); PERIODICA (Index of Latin-American Journals in Science); Latindex (Regional Co-operative Information System for Scholarly Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal).

London Underground D78 Stock

adding an audio passenger information system guided by GPS and odometer, voiced by Emma Clarke: announcements for each station name include connecting lines, and provide warnings to "mind the gap between the train and the platform"

Mike Lesk

In the 1990s, Lesk worked on a large chemical information system, the CORE project, with Cornell, Online Computer Library Center, American Chemical Society, and Chemical Abstracts Service.

National Biological Information Infrastructure

In conjunction with this, but without a presidential order, former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt renamed the national biotic resource information system as the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII).

Penelope Schott

At Educational Testing Service in the 1980s she was part of the Guidance Research Group, which developed the SIGI PLUS career information system.

SSDM

Seabed Survey Data Model, a format for geographic information system data, developed by the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers

Terrafugia Transition

Dynon Avionics EFIS-D100 Electronic Flight Information System with HS34 Nav and GPS Connectivity

Toxin

TOXMAP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) that is part of TOXNET.

VA Kernel

The VA Kernel is a set of programs, developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs of the United States Government, which provide an operating system and MUMPS implementation independent abstraction to the VistA Hospital Information System.

Warming center

For communication of the availability of open centers, many coordinate with the Federally mandated 2-1-1 or the 3-1-1 phone information system.

Wide area information server

In 1992, the presidential campaign of Ross Perot used WAIS as a campaign wide information system, connecting the field offices to the national office.