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OpenLR is a royalty-free open standard for "procedures and formats for the encoding, transmission, and decoding of local data irrespective of the map" developed by TomTom . The format allows locations localised on one map to be found on another map to which the data have been transferred. [ 1 ] OpenLR requires that t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLR
OpenMS is an open-source project for data analysis and processing in mass spectrometry and is released under the 3-clause BSD licence . It supports most common operating systems including Microsoft Windows , MacOS and Linux . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] OpenMS has tools for analysis of proteomics data, providing algorithms for signal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMS
OpenMath is the name of a markup language for specifying the meaning of mathematical formulae . Among other things, it can be used to complement MathML , a standard which mainly focuses on the presentation of formulae, with information about their semantic meaning. OpenMath can be encoded in XML or in a binary format. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMath
OpenNMS is a free and open-source enterprise grade network monitoring and network management platform. It is developed and supported by a community of users and developers and by the OpenNMS Group, offering commercial services, training and support. The goal is for OpenNMS to be a truly distributed, scalable managemen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNMS
Open PHACTS (Open Pharmacological Concept Triple Store ) was a European initiative public–private partnership between academia, publishers, enterprises, pharmaceutical companies and other organisations working to enable better, cheaper and faster drug discovery . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It has been funded by the Innova...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPHACTS
OpenPicus was an Italian hardware company launched in 2011 that designed and produced Internet of Things system on modules called Flyport. Flyport is open hardware and the openPicus framework and IDE are open software . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Flyport is a stand-alone system on module, no external processor is needed to create IoT...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPicus
Open Quantum Assembly Language ( OpenQASM ; pronounced open kazm ) [ 1 ] is a programming language designed for describing quantum circuits and algorithms for execution on quantum computers. It is designed to be an intermediate representation that can be used by higher-level compilers to communicate with quantum hardw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenQASM
openSAFETY is a communications protocol used to transmit information that is crucial for the safe operation of machinery in manufacturing lines, process plants, or similar industrial environments. Such information may be e.g. an alert signal triggered when someone or something has breached a light curtain on a factory ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSafety
OpenStructures is an open source modular construction model based on a shared geometrical grid, called the OS grid. It was conceived by designer Thomas Lommée , and first demonstrated at the Z33 , a house for contemporary art. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Lommee, the OpenStructures project explores the possibility of a mod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStructures
SiteScope is agentless monitoring software focused on monitoring the availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures, including Servers , Network devices and services , Applications and application components , operating systems and various IT enterprise components. [ 1 ] SiteScope was originally writte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenText_SiteScope
OpenTherm ( OT ) is a standard communications protocol used in central heating systems for the communication between central heating appliances and a thermostatic controllers. [ 1 ] As a standard, OpenTherm is independent of any single manufacturer. A controller from one manufacturer can in principle be used to control...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTherm
OpenTofu is a software project for infrastructure as code that is managed by the Linux Foundation . [ 2 ] The last MPL-licensed version of Terraform was forked as OpenTofu in August 2023 after HashiCorp announced that all products produced by the company would be relicensed under the Business Source License (BUSL), wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTofu
OpenViBE is a software platform dedicated to designing, testing and using brain-computer interfaces . The package includes a Designer tool to create and run custom applications, along with several pre-configured and demo programs which are ready for use. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] OpenViBE is software for real-time...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVibe
OpenWebNet is a communications protocol developed by Bticino since 2000. The OpenWebNet protocol allows a "high-level" interaction between a remote unit and Bus SCS of MyHome domotic system. The latest protocol evolution has been improved to allow interaction with well-known home automation systems like KNX and DMX512...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWebNet
The Open Wireless Movement hosted at OpenWireless.org is an Internet activism project which seeks to increase Internet access by encouraging people and organizations to configure or install software on their own wireless router to offer a separate public guest network or to make a single public wireless access point . ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWireless.org
Open Babel is a free chemical informatics software designed to facilitate the conversion of Chemical file formats and manage molecular data. [ 3 ] It serves as a chemical expert system , widely used in fields such as cheminformatics , molecular modelling , and computational chemistry . Open Babel provides both a compre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Babel
The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative ( OBSAI ) was a trade association created by Hyundai , LG Electronics , Nokia , Samsung and ZTE in September 2002 with the aim of creating an open market for cellular network base stations. The hope was that an open market would reduce the development effort and costs tradi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Base_Station_Architecture_Initiative
Open Bionics is a UK-based company that develops low-cost, 3D printed bionic arms for amputees with below elbow amputations (more formally known as myoelectric prostheses ). Their bionic arms are fully functional with lights, bio feedback vibrations, and different functions that allow the user to grab, pinch, high-five...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Bionics
Open Blueprint was an IBM framework developed in the early 1990s (and released in March 1992) that provided a standard for connecting network computers . [ 1 ] The open blueprint structure reduced redundancy by combining protocols. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This computing article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
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Open Bug Bounty is a non-profit bug bounty platform established in 2014. The coordinated vulnerability disclosure platform allows independent security researchers to report XSS and similar security vulnerabilities on any website they discover using non-intrusive security testing techniques. [ 1 ] The researchers may ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Bug_Bounty
Open Catalog Interface ( OCI ) is an open standard for a software interface developed by SAP for punch-out catalogs that connect buyers' procurement systems with suppliers' eCommerce systems. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] OCI is an alternative to cXML . It is used by SAP Supplier Relationship Management , Microsoft Dynamics AX and othe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Catalog_Interface
Open Cluster Framework ( OCF ) is a set of standards for computer clustering . The project started as a working group of the Free Standards Group , now part of the Linux Foundation . Original supporters included several computing companies and groups, including Compaq , Conectiva , IBM , Linux-HA , MSC Software , the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cluster_Framework
The Open Computing Facility is a student organization at the University of California, Berkeley , and a chartered program of the ASUC . Founded in 1989, the OCF is an all-volunteer, student-run organization dedicated to providing free and accessible computing resources to all members of the University community. [ 1 ]...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Computing_Facility
The Open Data-Link Interface ( ODI ) is an application programming interface (API) for network interface controllers (NICs) developed by Apple and Novell . The API serves the same function as Microsoft and 3COM's Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS). [ 1 ] Originally, ODI was written for NetWare and Macintosh ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data-Link_Interface
The Open Energy Modelling Initiative ( openmod ) is a grassroots community of energy system modellers from universities and research institutes across Europe and elsewhere. The initiative promotes the use of open-source software and open data in energy system modelling for research and policy advice. The Open Energy ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Energy_Modelling_Initiative
The Open Graphics Project ( OGP ) was founded with the goal to design an open-source hardware / open architecture and standard for graphics cards , primarily targeting free software / open-source operating systems. The project created a reprogrammable development and prototyping board and had aimed to eventually produc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Graphics_Project
The Open Grid Services Infrastructure ( OGSI ) was published by the Global Grid Forum (GGF) as a proposed recommendation in June 2003. [ 1 ] It was intended to provide an infrastructure layer for the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) . OGSI takes the statelessness issues (along with others) into account by essenti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Grid_Services_Infrastructure
The Open Handset Alliance ( OHA ) is a consortium led by Google that develops Android . [ 1 ] Its member firms included HTC , Sony , Dell , Intel , Motorola , Qualcomm , Texas Instruments , Samsung Electronics , LG Electronics (formerly), T-Mobile , Nvidia , and Wind River Systems . [ 2 ] The OHA was established on No...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance
The Open Hardware and Design Alliance ( OHANDA ) aims at encouraging the sharing of open hardware and designs. The core of the project is a free online service where manufacturers of Open hardware and designs can register their products with a common label. This label maps the four freedoms of Free Software to physical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Hardware_and_Design_Alliance
The Open Insulin Project is a community of researchers and advocates working to develop an open-source protocol for producing insulin that is affordable, has transparent pricing, and is community-owned. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Open Insulin Project was started in 2015 by Anthony Di Franco, himself a type 1 diabetic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Insulin_Project
Open Media Format ( OMF ), Open Media Framework , or Open Media Framework Interchange ( OMFI ), is a platform-independent file format intended for transfer of digital media between different software applications . [ 1 ] OMFI is a file format that aids in exchange of digital media across applications and platforms. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Media_Framework_Interchange
The Open Mobile Terminal Platform ( OMTP ) was a forum created by mobile network operators to discuss standards with manufacturers of mobile phones and other mobile devices. During its lifetime, the OMTP included manufacturers such as Huawei , LG Electronics , Motorola , Nokia , Samsung and Sony Ericsson . [ 1 ] OMTP...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Mobile_Terminal_Platform
The Open Mobile Video Coalition ( OMVC ) is a consortium founded to advance free broadcast mobile television in the United States . It was created by TV stations to promote the ATSC-M/H television standard to consumers, electronics manufacturers, the wireless industry, and the Federal Communications Commission . The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Mobile_Video_Coalition
Open Platform Communications ( OPC ) is a series of standards and specifications for industrial telecommunication . They are based on Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) for process control . An industrial automation task force developed the original standard in 1996 under the name OLE for Process Control . OPC specifie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Platform_Communications
The Open Regulatory Annotation Database (also known as ORegAnno ) is designed to promote community-based curation of regulatory information. Specifically, the database contains information about regulatory regions , transcription factor binding sites , regulatory variants, and haplotypes . For each entry, cross-refere...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Regulatory_Annotation_Database
Open Source Ecology ( OSE ) is a network of farmers, engineers, architects and supporters, whose main goal is the eventual manufacturing of the Global Village Construction Set ( GVCS ). As described by Open Source Ecology "the GVCS is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 types o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology
Open Threat Exchange (OTX) is a crowd-sourced computer-security platform. [ 1 ] It has more than 180,000 participants in 140 countries who share more than 19 million potential threats daily. [ 2 ] It is free to use. [ 3 ] Founded in 2012, [ 4 ] OTX was created and is run by AlienVault (now AT&T Cybersecurity), a devel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Threat_Exchange
The Open Tree of Life is an online phylogenetic tree of life – a collaborative effort, funded by the National Science Foundation . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first draft, including 2.3 million species, was released in September 2015. [ 4 ] The Interactive graph allows the user to zoom in to taxonomic classifications, phylogenetic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Tree_of_Life
Open Virtualization Format ( OVF ) is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances or, more generally, software to be run in virtual machines . The standard describes an "open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run in virtual ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format
In mathematics , more specifically in topology , an open map is a function between two topological spaces that maps open sets to open sets. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] That is, a function f : X → Y {\displaystyle f:X\to Y} is open if for any open set U {\displaystyle U} in X , {\displaystyle X,} the image f ( U ) {\displaystyle ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_and_closed_maps
In mathematics , an open book decomposition (or simply an open book ) is a decomposition of a closed oriented 3-manifold M into a union of surfaces (necessarily with boundary) and solid tori . Open books have relevance to contact geometry , with a famous theorem of Emmanuel Giroux (given below) that shows that contact ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_book_decomposition
In R&D management and systems development , open coopetition or open-coopetition is a neologism to describe cooperation among competitors in the open-source arena. The term was first coined by the scholars Jose Teixeira and Tingting Lin to describe how rival firms that, while competing with similar products in the same...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_coopetition
Open flow microperfusion ( OFM ) is a sampling method for clinical and preclinical drug development studies and biomarker research. OFM is designed for continuous sampling of analytes from the interstitial fluid (ISF) of various tissues. It provides direct access to the ISF by insertion of a small, minimally invasive, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_flow_microperfusion
In computing , open implementation platforms are systems where the implementation is accessible. Open implementation allows developers of a program to alter pieces of the underlying software to fit their specific needs. With this technique, it is far easier to write general tools, though it makes the programs themsel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_implementation
Open justice is a legal principle that requires that judicial proceedings be conducted in a transparent manner and with the oversight of the people, so as to safeguard the rights of those subject to the power of the court and to allow for the scrutiny of the public in general. The term has particular emphasis in legal ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_justice
In January 2015, Stephen Hawking , Elon Musk , and dozens of artificial intelligence experts [ 1 ] signed an open letter on artificial intelligence [ 2 ] calling for research on the societal impacts of AI. The letter affirmed that society can reap great potential benefits from artificial intelligence, but called for co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_letter_on_artificial_intelligence_(2015)
The Licence Ouverte / Open Licence is a French open license published on October 18, 2011 by Etalab [ fr ] for open data from the State of France . The license was designed to be compatible with Creative Commons Licenses , Open Government License , and the Open Data Commons Attribution License. [ 1 ] Information releas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_licence_(French)
In complex analysis , the open mapping theorem states that if U {\displaystyle U} is a domain of the complex plane C {\displaystyle \mathbb {C} } and f : U → C {\displaystyle f:U\to \mathbb {C} } is a non-constant holomorphic function , then f {\displaystyle f} is an open map (i.e. it sends open subsets of U {\displays...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_mapping_theorem_(complex_analysis)
In functional analysis , the open mapping theorem , also known as the Banach–Schauder theorem or the Banach theorem [ 1 ] (named after Stefan Banach and Juliusz Schauder ), is a fundamental result that states that if a bounded or continuous linear operator between Banach spaces is surjective then it is an open map . A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_mapping_theorem_(functional_analysis)
The open metering system of the Open Metering System Group e.V. stands for a manufacturer- and media-independent standardization for Meter-Bus (M-Bus) based communication between utility meters (electricity, gas, water, thermal energy), submetering (cold/hot water, thermal energy, heat cost allocators ), and systems in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_metering_system
Open nomenclature is a vocabulary of partly informal terms and signs in which a taxonomist may express remarks about their own material. This is in contrast to synonymy lists , in which a taxonomist may express remarks on the work of others. [ 1 ] Commonly such remarks take the form of abbreviated taxonomic expressions...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_nomenclature
In computing, an open platform describes a software system which is based on open standards , such as published and fully documented external application programming interfaces (API) that allow using the software to function in other ways than the original programmer intended, without requiring modification of the sour...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_platform
In physics , an open quantum system is a quantum -mechanical system that interacts with an external quantum system , which is known as the environment or a bath . In general, these interactions significantly change the dynamics of the system and result in quantum dissipation , such that the information contained in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_quantum_system
In molecular biology , reading frames are defined as spans of DNA sequence between the start and stop codons . Usually, this is considered within a studied region of a prokaryotic DNA sequence, where only one of the six possible reading frames will be "open" (the "reading", however, refers to the RNA produced by transc...
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In atomic physics and quantum chemistry , the electron configuration is the distribution of electrons of an atom or molecule (or other physical structure) in atomic or molecular orbitals . [ 1 ] For example, the electron configuration of the neon atom is 1s 2 2s 2 2p 6 , meaning that the 1s, 2s, and 2p subshells are oc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_shell
Open synthetic biology is the idea that scientific knowledge and data should be openly accessible through common rights licensing to enable the rapid development of safe, effective and commercially viable synthetic biology applications. Its foundational concepts are open science and the Bermuda Principles . [ 1 ] Open...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_synthetic_biology
Open systems are computer systems that provide some combination of interoperability , portability , and open software standards . (It can also refer to specific installations that are configured to allow unrestricted access by people and/or other computers; this article does not discuss that meaning). The term was pop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(computing)
Open System Tribology is a field of tribology that studies tribological systems that are exposed to and affected by the natural environment . [ 1 ] Factors influencing the tribological process will vary with the operating environment. This environment may be closed or open. Closed systems (e.g., gears in a gearbox ) a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_tribology
In structural engineering , the open web steel joist (OWSJ) is a lightweight steel truss consisting, in the standard form, of parallel chords and a triangulated web system, proportioned to span between bearing points. The main function of an OWSJ is to provide direct support for roof or floor deck and to transfer the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_web_steel_joist
Operability is the ability to keep a piece of equipment, a system or a whole industrial installation in a safe and reliable functioning condition, according to pre-defined operational requirements. In a computing systems environment with multiple systems this includes the ability of products, systems and business proc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operability
In mathematics , an operad is a structure that consists of abstract operations , each one having a fixed finite number of inputs (arguments) and one output, as well as a specification of how to compose these operations. Given an operad O {\displaystyle O} , one defines an algebra over O {\displaystyle O} to be a set to...
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In algebra, an operad algebra is an "algebra" over an operad . It is a generalization of an associative algebra over a commutative ring R , with an operad replacing R . Given an operad O (say, a symmetric sequence in a symmetric monoidal ∞-category C ), an algebra over an operad , or O -algebra for short, is, roughly,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operad_algebra
In mathematics , an operand is the object of a mathematical operation , i.e., it is the object or quantity that is operated on. [ 1 ] Unknown operands in equalities of expressions can be found by equation solving. The following arithmetic expression shows an example of operators and operands: In the above example, '...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operand
Operando spectroscopy is an analytical methodology wherein the spectroscopic characterization of materials undergoing reaction is coupled simultaneously with measurement of catalytic activity and selectivity. [ 1 ] The primary concern of this methodology is to establish structure-reactivity/selectivity relationships of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operando_spectroscopy
Operating capacity , or rated operating capacity (ROC), has to do with the calculated tipping load. The capacity (load) that one can safely pick-up and operate without flipping or nose-diving the equipment. Not to be confused with Operating weight . [ citation needed ] [ 1 ] The definitive range of operating capacity ...
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An operating context ( OC ) for an application is the external environment that influences its operation. For a mobile application, the OC is defined by the hardware and software environment in the device, the target user, and other constraints imposed by various other stakeholders, such as a carrier. This concept dif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_context
Operating deflection shape ( ODS ), is a term often used in the structural vibration analysis , known as ODS analysis. ODS analysis is a method used for visualisation of the vibration pattern of a machine or structure as influenced by its own operating forces. This is as opposed to the study of the vibration pattern of...
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The operating point is a specific point within the operation characteristic of a technical device. This point will be engaged because of the properties of the system and the outside influences and parameters. In electronic engineering establishing an operating point is called biasing . The operating point of a system...
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Operation: Bot Roast is an operation by the FBI to track down bot herders , crackers, or virus coders who install malicious software on computers through the Internet without the owners' knowledge, which turns the computer into a zombie computer that then sends out spam to other computers from the compromised computer,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation:_Bot_Roast
Operation Dark Winter was the code name for a senior-level bio-terrorist attack simulation conducted on June 22–23, 2001. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was designed to carry out a mock version of a covert and widespread smallpox attack on the United States. Tara O'Toole and Tom Inglesby of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dark_Winter
Operation Denver [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] (sometimes referred to as "Operation INFEKTION") was an active measure disinformation campaign run by the KGB in the 1980s to plant the idea that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS [ 6 ] [ 7 ] as part of a biological weapons research project at Fort Detrick , Maryland . Historian...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Denver
Operation Groundhog was reported a joint US/Kazakh/Russian program to secure radioactive residues of Soviet-era nuclear bomb tests. In 2003, reports appeared in Science Magazine [ 1 ] that the program included paving some areas with thick layers of reinforced concrete to protect plutonium contaminating the ground, [ 2 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Groundhog
Operation LAC ( Large Area Coverage ) was a United States Army Chemical Corps operation which dispersed microscopic zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) particles over much of the United States and Canada in order to test dispersal patterns and the geographic range of chemical or biological weapons. [ 1 ] There were several t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_LAC
1964–1965: Viet Cong offensive and American intervention 1966 campaign 1967 campaign 1968–1969: Tet Offensive and aftermath 1969–1971: Vietnamization 1972: Easter Offensive 1973–1974: Post- Paris Peace Accords 1975: Spring offensive Air operations Naval operations Lists of allied operations Operation Masher ...
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Operation Pacer HO was a 1977 operation of the U.S. Air Force that incinerated the Agent Orange stored at Johnston Atoll aboard the Dutch-owned ship M/T Vulcanus in 1977. "HO" was an abbreviation of Herbicide Orange (HO). [ 1 ] Operation Pacer IVY (InVentorY) was an associated United States Department of Defense missi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pacer_HO
Operation Ranch Hand was a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War , lasting from 1962 until 1971. Largely inspired by the British use of chemicals 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D ( Agent Orange ) during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s, it was part of the overall herbicidal warfare program during the war called "Operation ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ranch_Hand
Operation Red Hat was a United States Department of Defense movement of chemical warfare munitions from Okinawa , Japan to Johnston Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean , which occurred in 1971. U.S. chemical weapons were brought into Okinawa in 1962 based on the recommendation of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara , ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Hat
Operation Sandcastle was a United Kingdom non-combat military operation conducted between 1955–1956. Its purpose was to dispose of chemical weapons by dumping them in the sea. [ 1 ] The British possessed almost 71,000 air-dropped bombs of 250 kilograms in weight, each of which was filled with tabun . These had been se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sandcastle
Operation Steel Box , also known as Operation Golden Python (German name for the transport in Germany: Aktion Lindwurm ), was a 1990 joint U.S.–West German operation which moved over 100,000 U.S. chemical weapons from Germany to Johnston Atoll . At a United States Army Site near Clausen , West Germany , 100,000 GB and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Steel_Box
1964–1965: Viet Cong offensive and American intervention 1966 campaign 1967 campaign 1968–1969: Tet Offensive and aftermath 1969–1971: Vietnamization 1972: Easter Offensive 1973–1974: Post- Paris Peace Accords 1975: Spring offensive Air operations Naval operations Lists of allied operations Air operations O...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tailwind
Operation Top Hat was a "local field exercise" [ 1 ] conducted by the United States Army Chemical Corps in 1953. The exercise involved the use of Chemical Corps personnel to test biological and chemical warfare decontamination methods. These personnel were deliberately exposed to these contaminants, so as to test deco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Top_Hat
The operation chart is a graphical and symbolic representation of the manufacturing operations used to produce a product. [ 1 ] The operation chart illustrates only the value-adding activities in the manufacturing process ; therefore, material handling and storage are not illustrated in this chart. operation chart reco...
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An operational-level agreement ( OLA ) defines interdependent relationships in support of a service-level agreement (SLA). [ 1 ] The agreement describes the responsibilities of each internal support group toward other support groups, including the process and timeframe for delivery of their services. The objective of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational-level_agreement
Operational View ( OV ) is one of the basic views defined in the enterprise architecture (EA) of the Department of Defense Architecture Framework V1.5 (DoDAF) and is related with concept of operations . Under DODAF 2, which became operational in 2009, the collections of views are now termed 'viewpoints' and no longer v...
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Operational availability in systems engineering is a measurement of how long a system has been available to use when compared with how long it should have been available to be used. Operational availability is a management concept that evaluates the following. [ 1 ] Any failed item that is not corrected will induce o...
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Operational calculus , also known as operational analysis , is a technique by which problems in analysis , in particular differential equations , are transformed into algebraic problems, usually the problem of solving a polynomial equation . The idea of representing the processes of calculus, differentiation and integ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_calculus
An operational context (OLC) for an operation is the external environment that influences its operation. For a mobile application, the OLC is defined by the combined hardware / firmware / software configurations of several appliances or devices, as well as the bearer of the mobiles of these units and other work positio...
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Operational continuity refers to the ability of a system to continue working despite damages, losses, or critical events. In the Human Resources and Organizational domain, including IT , it implies the need to determine the level of resilience of the system, its ability to recover after an event, and build a system tha...
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The Royal Observer Corps ( ROC ) was a civil defence organisation operating in the United Kingdom between October 1925 and 31 December 1995, when the Corps' civilian volunteers were stood down. (ROC headquarters staff at RAF Bentley Priory stood down on 31 March 1996). Composed mainly of civilian spare-time volunteers,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_instruments_of_the_Royal_Observer_Corps
In the evolutionary biology of sexual reproduction , operational sex ratio ( OSR ) is the ratio of sexually competing males that are ready to mate to sexually competing females that are ready to mate, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] or alternatively the local ratio of fertilizable females to sexually active males at any given time. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_sex_ratio
An operational taxonomic unit ( OTU ) is an operational definition used to classify groups of closely related individuals. The term was originally introduced in 1963 by Robert R. Sokal and Peter H. A. Sneath in the context of numerical taxonomy , where an "operational taxonomic unit" is simply the group of organisms cu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_taxonomic_unit
Operational technology ( OT ) is hardware and software that detects or causes a change, through the direct monitoring and/or control of industrial equipment, assets , processes, and events . [ 1 ] The term has become established to demonstrate the technological and functional differences between traditional information...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_technology
Operations and Technology Management (OTM) is an interdisciplinary major which prepares students to gain knowledge and skills in the areas of operations management, IT management, and data analytics. This major is typically offered as part of business school and the curriculum is designed to develop the skills needed t...
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Operations engineering is a branch of engineering that is mainly concerned with the analysis and optimization of operational problems using scientific and mathematical methods. [ 1 ] More frequently it has applications in the areas of Broadcasting / Industrial Engineering and also in the Creative and Technology Indust...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_engineering
Operations security ( OPSEC ) is a process that identifies critical information to determine whether friendly actions can be observed by enemy intelligence, determines if information obtained by adversaries could be interpreted to be useful to them, and then executes selected measures that eliminate or reduce adversary...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_security
Operations support systems ( OSS ), operational support systems in British usage, or Operation System ( OpS ) in NTT [ 1 ] are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers to manage their networks (e.g., telephone networks). They support management functions such as network inventory , service provisio...
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In mathematics , an operator is generally a mapping or function that acts on elements of a space to produce elements of another space (possibly and sometimes required to be the same space). There is no general definition of an operator , but the term is often used in place of function when the domain is a set of functi...
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An operator is a function over a space of physical states onto another space of states. The simplest example of the utility of operators is the study of symmetry (which makes the concept of a group useful in this context). Because of this, they are useful tools in classical mechanics . Operators are even more important...
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Operator Toll Dialing was a telephone call routing and toll-switching system for the Bell System and the independent telephone companies in the United States and Canada that paved the way for Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) by telephone service subscribers. Operator Toll Dialing was developed in the early 1940s for regio...
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Operator grammar is a mathematical theory of human language that explains how language carries information . This theory is the culmination of the life work of Zellig Harris , with major publications toward the end of the last century. Operator grammar proposes that each human language is a self-organizing system in wh...
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