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Daryn Colledge Daryn Colledge (born February 11, 1982 in Fairbanks, Alaska), is a current American football offensive guard for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. He was drafted in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft.
Daryn Jones Daryn Jones (born January 3, 1978 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian comedian and television and radio personality. He and fellow comedian Mista Mo co-wrote and co-starred on the sketch comedy television show Buzz and is also a writer and an on-air correspondent for Rick Mercer Report.
Daryoush Homayoun Daryoush Homayoun is an Iranian journalist, author, intellectual, and politician. He is a former minister of information and tourism in the cabinet of Jamshid Amouzegar, founder of the daily newspaper Ayandegan, and a former high-ranking member of the Rastakhiz party.
Darzens reaction The Darzens reaction (also known as the Darzens condensation or glycidic ester condensation) is the chemical reaction of a ketone (or aldehyde) with an α-haloester to form α,β-epoxy esters (2). α,β-Epoxy esters, also called glycidic esters, upon hydrolysis yield aldehydes or ketones (4).
Das Arche Noah Prinzip Das Arche Noah Prinzip (aka The Noah's Ark Principle) was a 1984 science fiction film from Centropolis Film Productions and Hochschule fĂĽr Fernsehen und Film MĂĽnchen (HFF). The film was written and directed by Roland Emmerich.
Das Boot Das Boot (pronounced , German for The Boat) is a feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, adapted from a novel of the same name by Lothar-GĂĽnther Buchheim. Hans-Joachim Krug, former first officer on U-219, served as a consultant, as well as Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, the actual captain of the real U-96.
Das Dreimäderlhaus Das Dreimäderlhaus (House of the Three Girls), adapted into English language versions as Blossom Time and Lilac Time, is a Viennese operetta featuring the music of Franz Schubert and gives a fictionalized account of Schubert's romantic life. With the Schubert music adapted by Heinrich Berté, the show opened at the Raimundtheater on 15 January 1916 and ran for over 650 performances in its original run in Austria and for hundreds more in Germany, followed by many successful revivals.
Das erste Wiener GemĂĽseorchester Das erste Wiener GemĂĽseorchester (also known as The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra or simply The Vegetable Orchestra) is an Austrian musical group who use instruments made entirely from fresh vegetables. They are the world's foremost (and perhaps the only) exponents of this genre.
Das Foote Das Foote is a soccer club that was first established in 2003 at Turner Fenton Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario. The main members of the club are John Martirosyan, Greg Mendes, Dhiren Mistry, Edward Ng and Dallas Read.
Das geistliche Jahr Das geistliche Jahr (or the Spiritual Year) is a religious and philosophical cycle of poems that began on 1818 and were published on 1851. The poems were written by Annette von Droste-HĂĽlshoff, an influential 19th century German author and one of Germany's most well-known female poets.
Das Geheimnis der Runen Das Geheimnis der Runen (English: 'The Secret of the Runes' ) is a book by the highly respected Austrian mystic Guido von List, in which he presents his "Armanen Futharkh". It was published in Leipzig and Vienna in 1908 by the Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft (Gross-Lichterfelde).
Das Judenthum in der Musik "Das Judenthum in der Musik" (German, "Jewry in Music", but normally translated Judaism in Music), (in German spelled after its first publication ‘Judentum’) is an essay by Richard Wagner, attacking Jews in general and the composers Giacomo Meyerbeer and Felix Mendelssohn in particular, which was published under a pseudonym in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (NZM) of Leipzig in September 1850. It was reissued in a greatly expanded version under Wagner’s name in 1869.
Das klagende Lied Das klagende Lied (Song of Lamentation) is a cantata by Gustav Mahler, composed between 1878 and 1880 and greatly revised over the next two decades. In its original form, Das klagende Lied is one of the earliest of his works to have survived (the Piano Quartet movement in A minor is believed to date from 1876).
Das Kapital Das Kapital (Capital, in the English translation) is an extensive treatise on political economy written by Karl Marx in German. The book is a critical analysis of capitalism, its economic practices, and the theories which economists made about it.
Das Keyboard Das Keyboard is a high-end computer keyboard with no inscriptions on the keys; that is, the keys themselves are both completely black and blank. The name comes from the German word das (the in German) simply translated to "The Keyboard".
Das Liebesverbot Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love) is an early comic opera by Richard Wagner in two acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. It was composed in 1834, and Wagner conducted the premiere in 1836 at Magdeburg.
Das Lied der Deutschen Das Lied der Deutschen ("The Song of the Germans", also known as Das Deutschlandlied, "The Song of Germany") has been used wholly or partially as the national anthem of Germany since 1922. Outside Germany, the hymn is sometimes informally known by the opening words and refrain of the first stanza, Deutschland, Deutschland ĂĽber alles, but this was never the title of the original work nor is the first stanza part of the current German national anthem.
Das Lied von der Erde Das Lied von der Erde ("The Song of the Earth") is a large-scale work for two vocal soloists and orchestra by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. Laid out in six separate movements, each of them an independent song, the work is described on the title-page as Eine Symphonie für eine Tenor- und eine Alt- (oder Bariton-) Stimme und Orchester (nach Hans Bethges "Die chinesische Flöte") ('A Symphony for One Tenor and One Alto (or Baritone) Voice and Orchestra (After Hans Bethge's 'The Chinese Flute')').
Das Mirakel (1912 film) Das Mirakel (1912), aka "The Miracle," is a short movie directed by Cherry Kearton and Max Reinhardt. It was adapted by Joseph Menchen from the play by Karl Vollmöller and starred Vollmöller's wife Maria Carmi as the Madonna.
Das Modell (Rammstein single) Das Modell (German for The model) was a single released by the German industrial metal band Rammstein in 1997. It is a cover of the earlier Kraftwerk single of the same name, from the album The Man-Machine (released as "Die Mensch-Maschine" in Germany).
Das Neue Blatt Das Neue Blatt (English: "The New Page") is a German weekly tabloid first published in 1950. Printed in Germany, it is distributed by the Hamburg-based Bauer Verlagsgruppe (Publishing Group) and distributed in the USA by German Language Publications in Englewood, New Jersey.
Das Pop Das Pop is a Belgian pop music band, founded in 1994 by Reinhard Vanbergen, Niek Meul, Lieven Moors and Bent Van Looy. They were initialy called Things to come, but changed their name to Das Pop as Tom Keskens joined.
Das Reich (newspaper) Das Reich (Deutsche: Literally The Empire) was a weekly newspaper founded by the NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker's Party) propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in 1940. It was mainly circulated inside Germany, but was also available to subscribers in Switzerland and other European countries.
Das Rheingold Das Rheingold ("The Rhine Gold") is the first of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It received its premiere at the National Theatre in Munich on 22 September 1869, with August Kindermann in the role of Wotan, Heinrich Vogl as Loge, and Wilhelm Fischer as Alberich.
Das U-Boot Das U-Boot (Universal Bootloader) is a boot loader for a number of different computer architectures, including PPC, ARM, MIPS, x86, m68k, Nios, and Microblaze. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License.
Dasa The Dāsa are a tribe identified as the enemies of the Aryan tribes in the Rigveda. The word Dāsa, later acquired derogatory connotations, meaning 'servant', implying that they were subordinated by the Aryans.
Dasa sil mata A dasa sil mata is a Buddhist eight or ten precept-holder laywoman in Sri Lanka, where the newly re-established bhikkhuni lineage is not officially recognized yet. Dasa sil matas' status is between an ordinary lay follower and a fully ordained bhikkhuni.
Dasakuta Dasakuta was one of two divisions (along with Vyasakuta) of Haridasas, a group within the Bhakti movement, one of the monotheistic Hindu religious movements focusing on the spiritual practice of loving devotion to a God, called bhakti. This generally means the worship of Shiva or Vishnu or Shakti.
Dasam Granth The Dasam Granth (, ) is a warfare scripture of Sikhism composed by 10th Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. The Dasam Granth is believed to have been compiled after the Guru's demise by Bhai Mani Singh between the years 1730 AD and 1732 AD.
Dasani Dasani (pronounced ) is a brand of bottled water from the Coca-Cola company, launched in 1999, after the success of Aquafina (produced by Coca-Cola-rival PepsiCo). It is one of many brands of Coca-Cola water products sold around the world.
Dasarath Deb Dasarth Deb (1916 – 1998) () was a political leader in the Indian state of Tripura. Leader of Ganamukti Parishad and Communist Party of India (Marxist), Lok Sabha MP (elected in 1952, 1957, 1962 and 1971), vice-president of All India Kisan Sabha and the first and yet only tribal Chief Minister of Tripura.
Dasaratha Dasharatha (Sanskrit: दशरथ, IAST Daśaratha) in the Hindu faith, was the king of Ayodhya and a descendant of Raghuvamsa. He was the father of Lord Rama, the heroic prince and an avatar of Lord Vishnu in the epic Ramayana.
Dasatinib Dasatinib, also known as BMS-354825, is a drug produced by Bristol-Myers Squibb and sold under the trade name Sprycel®. Dasatinib is an oral dual BCR/ABL and Src family tyrosine kinases inhibitor approved for use in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL).
Dasein Dasein is a concept forged by Martin Heidegger in his magnum opus Being and Time . It is derived from da-sein, which literally means being-there/here, though Heidegger was adamant that this was an inappropriate translation of Dasein.
Dash (The Incredibles) Dashiell "Dash" Robert Parr is a child superhero in the Disney & Pixar motion picture The Incredibles who can run at super speeds, similar to Quicksilver in the Marvel universe and The Flash in the DC Comics universe.
Dash Rip Rock Taking their name from a love interest of Elly May's on The Beverly Hillbillies, Dash Rip Rock was formed as a three-piece rockabilly band in Baton Rouge, Louisiana during the summer of 1984. Over time the band has evolved into a rowdy live act popular at college-town bars and frat parties across the South.
Dash Shaw Dash Shaw is the author and artist of the graphic novels Love Eats Brains, published by Odd God Press, GardenHead published by Meathaus, and The Mother's Mouth by Alternative Comics. His comic short stories have appeared in many different anthologies, newspapers and magazines.
Dashabhumika Daśabhūmikā (Sanskrit. Chinese : 地論宗; pinyin di lun zong) was a Buddhist sect in China, based around Vasubandhu's Sanskrit sutra of the same name (Chinese 十地經; pinyin shi di jing; ten stages sutra).
Dashanami Sampradaya Dasanami Sampradaya (IAST ), literally Tradition of Ten Names, is a Hindu monastic tradition established by Adi Shankara in the 8th century CE in India. Those Hindus who take up sannyasa in the Advaita Vedanta or Smarta tradition take up one of the ten names associated with this sampradaya.
Dashanpu Formation The Dashanpu Formation is a Mid to Late Jurassic rock formation in China, most notable for the wealth of dinosaurs that have been excavated from the area. The Dashanpu Formation sits in and around the small township of Dashanpu (), situated 7 kilometres north-east from Sichuan's third largest city, Zigong, in the Da'an district ().
Dashanpusaurus Dashanpusaurus (meaning "Dashanpu lizard" after the township it was discovered in) is a genus of dinosaur that lived during the middle of the Jurassic period. The dinosaur was described in 2005 by a group of Chinese paleontologists.
Dashanzi Dashanzi (大山子, Hanyu Pinyin: Dàshānzi) is a 1 square kilometer area in the Chaoyang district of Beijing, northeast of the city center. It lies along the Airport Expressway between the 4th and 5th Ring Roads, south of the Dashanzi Qiao flyover (大山子桥) and opposite Wangjing.
Dashanzi Art District "Dashanzi Art District" () is the informal name of a part of Dashanzi in the Chaoyang District of Beijing that houses a thriving artist community, among 50-year old decomissioned military factory buildings of unique architectural style. It is often compared with New York's Greenwich Village or SoHo, but faces impending destruction from the forces driving Beijing's urban sprawl.
Dasharatha Sharma Professor Dasharatha Sharma (1903-1976) was a noted expert in the history of the Rajasthan region in India. He was born in the Rajasthani city of Churu and studied at Churu, the city of Bikaner in Rajasthan and at the University of Delhi.
Dashboard A dashboard, dash board, or simply dash (and sometimes facia in British English) is a control panel located under the windscreen of an automobile. It contains indicators, dials, controls and displays to assist operation of the vehicle.
Dashboard (business) Dashboard is a term now being used generally to refer to a web-based technology page on which real time information is collated from various sources in the business. The metaphor of dashboard is adopted here to emphasize the nature of the data being displayed on the page, it is a real-time analysis as to how a business is operating, just like on an automobile dashboard real time information is displayed about the performance of that vehicle.
Dashboard (interface) In computer user interfaces, a dashboard is a floating, semi-transparent window that provides contextual access to commonly used tools in a software program. The interface is used to greatest effect in full-screen editing modes.
Dashboard construct The defining concept of a dashboard is a set of indicators that relate to the observable environment. A further refinement of the concept, to its origin, is that that your view of the environment is 'above' the dashboard.
Dashboard Confessional Dashboard Confessional is an American acoustic/electric guitar driven indie rock band, led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris Carrabba from Boca Raton, Florida. They won the MTV2 award at 2002's MTV Video Music Awards for their song "Screaming Infidelities" and appeared on motion picture soundtracks such as Shrek 2 and Spider-Man 2.
Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj (Нацагдорж Дашдоржийн; 1906-37), Mongolian writer, who stayed in Germany between 1926 and 1929 and set up the Mongolian writers' union. He is widely regarded as Mongolia's first "classic Socialist" writer.
Dasher Dasher is a computer accessibility tool enabling users to enter text efficiently using a pointing device rather than a keyboard. It has been likened to an arcade game, since to use it you zoom through characters that fly across the screen.
Dashi Dashi ([ダシ) is one of several simple soup stocks considered fundamental to Japanese cooking]. The most common form of dashi is a simple [[broth or stock made by heating kombu (edible kelp) and katsuobushi (flakes of dried skipjack tuna, often referred to as bonito flakes outside Japan) in water and then straining the resultant liquid.
Dashpot A dashpot is a mechanical device, a damper which resists motion via viscous friction. The resulting force is proportional to the velocity, but acts in the opposite direction, slowing the motion and absorbing energy.
Dashqotan Dashqotan is a small Assyrian village located in northern Iraq, about 40 kilometers north of Mosul and 15 kilometers east of Alqosh. Dashqotan is bordered by four Assyrian villages: Aenbaqre, Karanjok, Perozawa and Germawe.
Dasht-e Kavir Dasht-e Kavir (دشت كوير in Persian), also known as Kavir-e Namak or Great Salt Desert is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian Plateau. It is about 800 kilometers (497 mi) long and 320 kilometers (198 mi) wide with a total surface area of about 77,600 square kilometers (~30,000 mi²).
Dashtestan Dashtestan is a township in the northern part of Bushehr Province of Iran. It is the largest of Bushehr's nine municipalities, the others are: Bushehr, Dashti, Dayyer, Kangan, Tangestan, Genaveh, Dai Jam and Jam.
Dashup A Dashup (or Dash-up) is a Mashup (web application hybrid) that includes critical data (particularly demographics). The term was coined by Dean Stoecker, in overview presentation of SRC's FreeDemographics API allowing developers to incorporate US Census data into mashups.
Dashwood, Ontario Dashwood, Ontario is a community located on the boundary of the town of Bluewater, Ontario and the town of South Huron, Ontario in southwestern Ontario. It has a population of approximately 400 and is situated 50 kilometers north of London, Ontario near the popular resort community of Grand Bend on Lake Huron.
Dasiphora Dasiphora is a genus of about 8-9 species of small shrubs in the rose family Rosaceae, native to Asia, with the exception of one species D. fruticosa (Shrubby Cinquefoil), with a circumpolar range across the entire cool temperate Northern Hemisphere.
Daska Daska is a small industrial city with a population of around 200,000 in the Punjab region of Pakistan. Town has status of Tehseel (Sub District) and is one of the three Tahseels of district Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan.
Daslu Daslu is a posh multi-brand boutique-cum-department store in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil. The boutique is known as the "fashion designers mecca" of Brazil as it houses more than 60 labels plus 30 store-in-stores and is the place where Brazilian socialites, ranging from multi-millionaire soccer players to conglomerate bigwigs shop for the latest accessories and clothing.
Dasmariñas, Cavite The Municipality of Dasmariñas (often shortened to Dasma; Filipino: Bayan ng Dasmariñas) is a 1st class urban municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. It is located approximately 30 kilometers south of Manila.
Daspletosaurus Daspletosaurus (IPA: ; dahs-PLEE-toh-sawr-us) meaning 'frightful lizard', from the Greek daspleto-/δασπλητο- meaning 'horrid, frightful' and saurus/σαυρος meaning 'lizard', was a theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America.
Dassa-Zoumé Dassa-Zoumé, often shortened to Dassa, is a city in Benin, on the Cotonou to Parakou railway and the main north-south highway. The city is known as a place of pilgrimage, the Virgin Mary said to have appeared in La Grotte Marial Notre Dame d'Arigbo, around which a basilica has since been built, containing several shrines.
Dassault Étendard French aircraft manufacturer Dassault used the name Étendard ("Standard", in the sense of a flag or banner) for a family of related aircraft projects beginning in the late 1950s. Versions that at least reached prototype stage were:
Dassault Étendard II The Dassault Étendard II was a French prototype fighter aircraft initially developed as a follow-on project to the Dassault Mystère series. It was presented to the French Air Force for evaluation but was rejected in favour of the Dassault Mirage III.
Dassault Étendard VI The Dassault Étendard VI was a French prototype fighter aircraft initially developed as part of a NATO competition to find a standard fighter to serve amongst member air forces. Dassault took advantage of the fact that the French Air Force had issued a requirement around the same time for a new fighter-bomber and developed aircraft in parallel as variations of the same design concept for the two prospective customers.
Dassault Falcon 900 The Falcon 900 is a large corporate jet manufactured by Dassault, unique in the fact that it – along with its smaller sibling the Falcon 50, and the Falcon 7X, an advanced development – are currently the only corporate jets offered with more than two engines (in both cases, three). The Falcon 900 is a development of the Falcon 2000, itself a development of the earlier Falcon 20.
Dassault LOGIDUC The Dassault LOGIDUC -sometimes spelled Logiduc in French and LogiDuc in English- (Logique de DĂ©veloppement d'UCAV, French for "Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle development solution") is an autonomous industrial program launched in 1999 by the French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation in view to develop its UAV design capacities. This French programme eventually led to the creation of the Dassault-Sagem Tactical UAV company and to the European "combat drone" project nEUROn.
Dassault Mirage 4000 The Mirage 4000 was a prototype jet fighter developed by Dassault-Breguet as a twin engine version of their Mirage 2000. Both planes have much in common, including their engines (SNECMA M53-2), their Delta shape wings and their semi-circular air intake.
Dassault Mirage 5 The Dassault Mirage 5 is a supersonic fighter aircraft designed in France by Dassault Aviation during the 1960s, and manufactured both in France and a number of other countries. It was derived from Dassault's extremely successful Mirage III fighter, and spawned several variants of its own.
Dassault Mirage III The Dassault Mirage III is a supersonic fighter aircraft designed in France by Dassault Aviation during the 1950s, and manufactured both in France and a number of other countries. It was a successful fighter aircraft, being sold to many air forces around the world and remaining in production for over a decade.
Dassault Mirage IIIV The Dassault Mirage IIIV (three vee) fighter aircraft was one of the most interesting offshoots of the Dassault Mirage III family tree. A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter, the IIIV featured eight small vertical lift jets straddling the main engine.
Dassault nEUROn nEUROn (formerly spelled "Neuron") is the "European UCAV technology demonstrator". This delta wing stealth Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle project is the final phase of the French Dassault Aviation LOGIDUC 3-step stealth "combat drone" programme.
Dassault Rafale The Dassault Rafale is a French twin-engined delta-wing highly agile multi-role fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation. Dassault uses 'Omni Role' as a marketing term in an effort to differentiate the aircraft from other 'multi-role' fighters that have primary and secondary roles.
Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard The Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard is a French carrier-borne strike fighter in service with the French and Argentine Navies. A small number were also flown by the Iraqi Air Force for a brief period during the Iran-Iraq War.
Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS from September 13, 1969 to September 5, 1971. The show's working title was Stop the Pigeon, and the show's theme song (sung by Dick Dastardly himself) repeats the phrase so often that many viewers mistake that for the show's actual title.
Dastgah Dastgah (Persian dastgāh دستگاه) is tradition of Persian art music embodies twelve modal systems, known as dastgahs. Dastgah is a melody type on the basis of which a performer produces extemporised pieces.
Dastum Dastum is a Breton cultural organization based in Rennes, the capital of the Bretagne department of France, in the region of Brittany. Founded in 1972, its mission is "to collect, protect and promote the cultural heritage of Brittany.
Dastur al-Muluk One of only two surviving administrative handbooks from early 18th-century Safavid Iran and important research tool for scholars in Iranology. The Persian manuscript was edited during the 1960s by the Iranian scholar Mohammad-Taqi Daneshpazhuh.
Dasvand Dasvand () literally means a tenth part and refers the act of donating ten percent of ones harvest, both financial and in the form of time and service such as seva to the Gurdwara and anywhere else. It falls into Guru Nanak Dev's concept of kirat karo.
Dasylirion wheeleri Dasylirion wheeleri (Desert Spoon or Common Sotol) is a flowering plant native to arid environments of the southwestern United States, in Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas, and in northern Mexico, in Chihuahua and Sonora.
Dasyuromorphia The order Dasyuromorphia is made up of most carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, dunnarts, the Numbat, the Tasmanian Devil, and the recently extinct Thylacine. The only exceptions are the omnivorous bandicoots (order Peramelemorphia) and the marsupial moles (which eat meat but are very different and are now accorded an order of their own).
DaShon Polk DaShon Polk (born March 13, 1977 in Pacoima, California) is an American football player who currently plays linebacker for the Houston Texans. He was a three-year starter at the University of Arizona, making 36 consecutive starts.
Dat Nguyen Dat Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Tấn Đạt, born on September 25, 1975 in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas is the first Vietnamese American] to play in the [[National Football League. He played for the Dallas Cowboys.
Dat's How It Happened To'M "Dat's How It Happened To'M" is an album from Three 6 Mafia side project Da Headbussaz. It is probably best known for includin the song "Get The F*ck Out My Face", which became an underground hit.
Data (Star Trek) DataIn the episode "The Measure of a Man", Data's full name—the sole word—is elaborated upon in an on-screen graphic with the initialisms NFN and NMI: No First Name, No Middle Initial. is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe.
Data acquisition Data acquisition is the sampling of the real world to generate data that can be manipulated by a computer. Sometimes abbreviated DAQ or DAS, data acquisition typically involves acquisition of signals and waveforms and processing the signals to obtain desired information.
Data acquisition system Data logging, carried out by a data acquisition system (DAS), is used to measure parameters such as temperature and humidity in storage facilities with perishable products; the measurement data is then stored for analysis to improve quality assurance.
Data analysis Data analysis is the act of transforming data with the aim of extracting useful information and facilitating conclusions. Depending on the type of data and the question, this might include application of statistical methods, curve fitting, selecting or discarding certain subsets based on specific criteria, or other techniques.
Data architect A data architect is a person responsible for making sure an organization's strategic goals are optimized through the use of enterprise data standards. This frequently involves creating and maintaining a centralized registry of metadata.
Data architecture Data architecture describes how data is processed, stored, and utilized in a given system. It provides criteria for data processing operations that make it possible to design data flows and also control the flow of data in the system.
Data assimilation Data assimilation (DA) is a method used (perhaps most importantly in the weather forecasting process) in which observations of the current (and possibly, past) state of a system are combined with the results from a mathematical model to produce an analysis, which is considered as 'the best' estimate of the current state of the system. In addition to weather forecasting, other uses include trajectory estimation for the Apollo program, and atmospheric chemistry.
Data auditing Data Auditing is the process of conducting a data audit to assess how fit for purpose a company's data is. This involves profiling the data and assessing the impact of poor quality data on the organization's performance and profits.
Data Access Language Data Access Language, or simply DAL, was a SQL-like language parser released by Apple Computer in 1990 to provide unified client/server access to database management systems. It was known for poor performance and high costs, something Apple did little to address over its short lifetime at Apple.
Data Access Manager The Data Access Manager (DAM) was a database access API for the Mac OS, introduced in 1991 as an extension to System 7. Similar in concept to ODBC, DAM saw little use and was eventually dropped in the late 1990s.
Data Access Object In computer software, a Data Access Object (DAO) is a software component which provides a common interface between the application and one or more data storage devices, such as a database or file. The term is most frequently applied to the Object design pattern.
Data bank In telecommunications, a data bank is a repository of information on one or more subjects that is organized in a way that facilitates local or remote information retrieval. A data bank may be either centralized or decentralized.
Data clarification form A Data Clarification Form (DCF) or Data Query Form (DQF) is a questionnaire specifically used in clinical research. The DCF is the primary data clarification tool from the trial sponsor or Contract Research Organization (CRO) towards the investigator to clarify discrepancies and ask the investigator for clarification.
Data clustering Data clustering is a common technique for statistical data analysis, which is used in many fields, including machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, image analysis and bioinformatics. Clustering is the classification of similar objects into different groups, or more precisely, the partitioning of a data set into subsets (clusters), so that the data in each subset (ideally) share some common trait - often proximity according to some defined distance measure.

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