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Key Stage 3 Key Stage 3 is the legal term for the three years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9, when pupils are aged between 11 and 14. This Key Stage normally covers pupils during their first three years of secondary education, although in some cases part or all of this stage may fall in a middle or high school.
Key Stage 5 Key Stage 5 is an unofficial label used to describe the two years of post-compulsory education for students aged 16-18, or at sixth form, in the United Kingdom, to align with previous Key Stages as labelled for the National Curriculum. Halfway through Key Stage 5, students sit the GCE Advanced Subsidiary Levels examination and at the end of Key Stage 5, the A2 Level examinations.
Key System The Key System (or Key Route) was a privately owned company which provided mass transit in the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, Piedmont, San Leandro, Richmond, Albany and El Cerrito in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area from 1903 until 1960 when the system was sold to a newly formed public agency, AC Transit.
Key Tower Key Tower is a skyscraper in on Public Square in downtown Cleveland, Ohio designed by architect CĂ©sar Pelli. It is the tallest building in the city, surpassing the Terminal Tower, as well as the tallest building in Ohio and the 15th tallest building in the United States.
Key whitening In cryptography, key whitening is a technique intended to increase the security of an iterated block cipher. It consists of steps that combine the data with portions of the key (most commonly using a simple XOR) before the first round and after the last round of encryption.
Key worker There is no clear defintion of 'key workers' but is often linked to teachers, polic officers, nurses, other key health service employees and planners. The term has increasingly been used in allocating new housing as part of the affordable housing process in Britain.
Key West Botanical Forest and Garden The Key West Botanical Forest and Garden 11 acres (4.5 hectares) is a frost-free arboretum and botanical garden containing a fine collection of trees, shrubs, and palms, including several "champion tree" specimens.
Key West, Florida Key West is a city and an island of the same name near the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The city encompasses the namesake island, the part of Stock Island north of US-1 (the Overseas Highway) (east), Sigsbee Park (north, originally known as Dredgers Key), Fleming Key (north), and Sunset Key (west, originally known as Tank Island).
Key Wrap Key Wrap constructions are a class of symmetric encryption algorithms designed to encapsulate (encrypt) cryptographic key material. The Key Wrap algorithms are intended for applications such as (a) protecting keys while in untrusted storage, or (b) transmitting keys over untrusted communications networks.
Key-agreement protocol In cryptography, a key-agreement protocol is a protocol whereby two or more parties can agree on a key in such a way that both influence the outcome. If properly done, this precludes undesired third-parties from forcing a key choice on the agreeing parties.
Key2Audio key2audio is a copy protection system for Audio CDs, developed by Sony DADC. The system gained notoriety after it was discovered that one can effectively disable the system by tracing the outer edge of a CD with a felt-tip marker.
Keyano College Keyano College is a post-secondary institution in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. While the school has been best known for its position in training workers for the Fort McMurray oilsands, Keyano is also known as the only institution in Canada offering a Musical Instrument Repair diploma.
Keyaron Fox Keyaron Fox (born January 24, 1982 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American football player who currently plays linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs. He played in 45 games (35 starts) during his tenure at Georgia Tech and finished his career with 376 tackles, 9 sacks, 40 tackles for loss, one INT, two fumble recoveries, six forced fumbles, 14 passes defensed, and seven QB pressures.
KeyArena KeyArena at Seattle Center is located north of downtown Seattle, USA on the grounds of Seattle Center (the site of 1962's Century 21 Exposition, a World's Fair). The arena's primary tenants are the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association.
Keyboard mnemonic A keyboard mnemonic (also referred to as a keyboard indicator, and sometimes, less properly, as a keyboard shortcut) is a key that can be pressed to perform some action normally done by another input device. Most keyboard mnemonics are visible in some way at the time they can be used (which sets them apart from keyboard shortcuts, which more often need to be memorized).
Keyboard protector A Keyboard protector is a device which is placed on top of a computer keyboard to reduce its contact with the environment, for example to prevent dust entry, and to keep the keyboard in a pristine state and reduce or eliminate cleaning.
Keyboard technology There are many types of keyboard, usually differentiated by the switch technology employed in their operation. Since there are so many switches needed (usually about 80-110) and because they have to be highly reliable, this usually defines the keyboard.
Keyboardist A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid 1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more general term for a person who plays them. These keyboards include:
Keyboardmania Keyboardmania (alternately KEYBOARD MANIA, and abbreviated KBM) is a rhythm video game created by the Bemani division of Konami. In this game up to two players use 24-key keyboards to play the piano or keyboard part of a selected song.
Keycode Keycode is a barcode like encoding developed by Kodak to indicate individual unique frames on camera original film in post production. Keycode is burned onto the edge of motion picture film during manufacturing.
Keyed trumpet The keyed trumpet, or keyed bugle, is a brass instrument that, contrary to the traditional valved trumpet, uses keys. The keyed trumpet is rarely seen in modern performances, but was relatively common up until the introduction of the valved trumpet in the early nineteenth century.
Keyer A keyer is a device for signaling by hand, by way of pressing one or more switches. Modern keyers typically have a large number of switches but not as many as a full-size keyboard; typically between four and fifty.
KeyFly KeyFly is a conditional access (CA) system developed by SIDSA which is compatible with the DVB-CSA platform. The system is based on SIDSA MACtsp processors, and Conditional Access Modules for it can integrate the card directly into the CAM.
Keyham railway station Keyham railway station is a suburban rail station in the city of Plymouth, UK. It is served by First Great Western services between Plymouth and Gunnislake; most other services pass through the station non-stop.
Keyhole limpet Keyhole limpets are living animals of the top shaped - keyhole limpet family Fissurellidae. Despite similarities, which permits them to strongly resist wave attack on exposed rocks, the keyhole limpets differ internally and externally from their cousins, the true limpets, or Patellacea.
Keyhole Markup Language KML (Keyhole Markup Language) is an XML-based language for managing three-dimensional geospatial data in the program Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Mobile. (The word Keyhole is an earlier name for the software that became Google Earth; the software was produced in turn by Keyhole, Inc, which was acquired by Google in 2004.
Keyhole saw A keyhole saw (also called a pad saw, jab saw or drywall saw) is a long, narrow saw used for cutting small, often awkward features in various building materials. There are typically two varieties of keyhole saw: the fixed blade type and retractable blade type.
Keyhole, Inc Keyhole, Inc, founded in 2001, was a pioneering software development company specializing in geospatial data visualization applications that was acquired by Google in 2004. Initially launched as a spin-off of Intrinsic Graphics, first round funding came from a Sony venture capital fund and others, additional capital came from an Nvidia bundling deal, from the CIA (via its venture-capital appendage, In-Q-Tel) and from angel investor Brian McClendon (who later came on as a board member and VP).
Keychain A keychain or key chain is a small chain, usually made from metal or plastic, that connects a small item to a keyring. The length of a keychain allows an item to be used more easily than if connected directly to a keyring.
Keychain Access Keychain Access in Mac OS X serves to allow the user to configure keychain passwords - unlocking, locking and displaying passwords saved by the system which are dynamically linked to one's login password. Keychain Access also allows one to manage root certificates, keys and secure notes.
Keyi family The Keyis are nobles among the Mappilas of Malabar (in Kerala, south India) known for their immense wealth and landed properties which they acquired through brisk trade they carried out in Kerala even before the advent of English East India Company. They Keyi family has its roots in Thalassery of Kannur district.
Keykit KeyKit is a graphical environment and programming language for MIDI synthesis and algorithmic composition. It was released in __tptYear__ by AT&T under the __tptLicsense__ license, and was developed by Tim Thompson.
Keykode Introduced in 1990, Keykode is an Eastman Kodak Company advancement on edge numbers, which are letters, numbers and symbols placed at regular intervals along the edge of 35 mm and 16 mm film to allow for frame-by-frame specific identification.
Keyless Go Keyless Go (also: Keyless Entry / Go; Passive Entry / Go) is a generic term for an automotive technology which allows a driver to lock and unlock a vehicle without using the corresponding SmartKey buttons. Once a driver enters a vehicle with an equipped Keyless Go SmartKey or Keyless Go wallet size card, they have the ability to start and stop the engine, without inserting the SmartKey.
Keyline A keyline, in graphic design, is a boundary line which separates color and monocromatic areas, or differently colored areas of printing on a given page or other printed piece. The line itself, usually consisting of a black (or other dark colored) border, provides an area in which lighter colors can be printed with slight variation in registration.
Keyline design Keyline design is a technique for maximizing beneficial use of water resources of a piece of land, and the Keyline refers to a specific topographic feature linked to water flow. Beyond that however, Keyline can be seen as a collection of design principles, techniques and systems for development of rural and urban landscapes.
Keylong Keylong is the administrative centre of the Lahul and Spiti district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, some 120 kilometres from the Indo-Tibetan border. Located at an altitude of 3,350 metres, Keylong is cut off from the outside world from November to June, due to heavy snowfall.
KeyLine Transit KeyLine Transit, also known as KeyLine, is the operator of mass transit within the City of Dubuque, Iowa. KeyLine Transit offers bus routes throughout the city, trolley transportation in Downtown Dubuque and the Port of Dubuque, and on-demand paratransit "MiniBus" service citywide.
Keynes effect The Keynes effect is a term used in economics to describe a situation where a change in interest rates affects expenditure more than it affects savings. As prices fall, a given nominal amount of money will become a larger real amount.
Keynesian beauty contest A Keynesian beauty contest is a concept developed by John Maynard Keynes and introduced in Chapter 12 of his masterwork, General Theory of Employment Interest and Money (1936), to explain price fluctuations in equity markets. Keynes described the action of rational agents in a market using an analogy based on a contest that was run by a London newspaper where entrants were asked to choose a set of six faces from 100 photographs of women that were the "most beautiful".
Keynesian economics Keynesian economics (pronounced ), also called Keynesianism, or Keynesian Theory, is an economic theory based on the ideas of 20th century British economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynesian economics promotes a mixed economy, where both the state and the private sector play an important role.
Keynote A keynote in literature, music or public speaking is the principal underlying theme of a larger idea — a literary story, an individual musical piece or event. At political or industrial conventions and expositions and at academic conferences, the keynote address or keynote speech is delivered to set the underlying tone and summarize the core message or most important revelation of the event.
Keynote (software) Keynote is a presentation software application made by Apple for its Mac OS X operating system. Originally announced in January 2003, Keynote is now part of the iWork productivity suite (which also includes Pages), with a retail price of 79 USD in the USA, 55 GBP in the United Kingdom and 79 EUR in other countries of European Union.
Keynote (Tranglos) Keynote is the name of a notetaking and outlining text editor produced by Tranglos Software for the Windows operating system. It is based on the tree data structure concept, allowing "nodes" in a tree panel (much like the tree panel in Windows file managers) to represent separate fields within a single text file.
Keynotes Keynotes was an Australian musical game show that was brought in as a summer time replacement for Sale of the Century in 1992. It was hosted by Australian television personality Richard Wilkins, announced by Craig Huggins, and produced by Grundy Productions for the Nine Network Australia.
Keypad A keypad is a set of buttons arranged in a block which usually bear digits and other symbols but not a complete set of alphabetical letters. If it mostly contains numbers then it can also be called a numeric keypad.
KeyPoint Federal Credit Union KeyPoint Federal Credit Union is a credit union headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and chartered and regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). Like all credit unions, KeyPoint Federal is owned by its membership, governed by a Board of volunteers, elected by and from the membership.
Keys of Heaven The Keys of Heaven were, according to Christian tradition, received by Peter from Jesus, marking Peter's role as head of the Christian faith on earth. Thus, the Keys are seen as a symbol of Christian authority still to this day.
Keys Park Keys Park is home of Hednesford Town Football Club, and is situated on Keys Park Road approximately 15 minutes from Hednesford Town Centre. The club previously played at the Cross Keys, a ground situated behind the pub of the same name.
Keys to the kingdom series The Keys to the Kingdom series is a series of seven books about a place, the House, which is the epicentre of the universe, first creation of the Architect of All. Each of the seven dimenses of the House (the Lower House, the Middle House, the Upper House, the Far Reaches, the Border Sea, the Great Maze and the Incomparable Gardens) are ruled by a Trustee of the Architect.
Keyseating Keyseating is a method of joining two parts to to transfer a rotational force, used where a shaft fits into a hole. Matching lengthwise slots are cut into the outside of the shaft and the inside of the hole, so that when the two slots are lined up a square piece called a key can be inserted.
Keyser Söze Keyser Söze (IPA pronunciation: ) is a fictional character in the 1995 movie "The Usual Suspects", written by Christopher McQuarrie. In the film, Söze is an underworld kingpin whose ruthlessness and influence have a legendary, even mythical status among law enforcement agents and criminals alike.
Keystone (1899 automobile) The Keystone was an American automobile manufactured from 1899 until 1900. A product of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, it was the predecessor of the Searchmont; in 1899 the company offered a steam car with small three-cylinder radial engines built into each of its rear hubs.
Keystone Air Service Keystone Air Service serves Manitoba, Canada with scheduled flights and the rest of Canada with charter service. Keystone has been flying since 1985 and provides air charter service to all corners of the Midwest.
Keystone Baseball Keystone Baseball is a company that owns and/or operates affiliated Minor League and independent baseball teams in the United States. Since 1982, Keystone Baseball has owned and operated its own minor league teams, operated teams for others, assisted in the sale and purchase of teams, and advised and consulted with clients from around the world.
Keystone correction Keystone correction, colloquially also called keystoning, is a function that allows multimedia projectors that are not placed perpendicular to the horizontal centreline of the screen (too high or too low) to skew the output image, thereby making making it rectangular. Without such correction the image will appear as a horizontal trapezoid, the shape of an architectural keystone; hence the name of the feature.
Keystone Camera Company The Keystone Camera Company was an American manufacturer of consumer photographic equipment. Notable products were Movie cameras, 126 and 110 cameras with built in electronic flash (the "Everflash" series).
Keystone City Keystone City is a fictional city featured in stories of The Flash published by DC Comics. Specifically, it is the home of both the original Flash, Jay Garrick, the third Flash, Wally West, and the fourth Flash, Bart Allen.
Keystone Corridor The Keystone Corridor is a Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) "designated high speed corridor" with a 349-mile (562 km) railroad line between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a top speed of 110 miles per hour (177 km/h). As of November 1, 2006, the track from Lancaster to Parkesburg was upgraded to 110 mile per hour operation, with the section between Paoli and Philadelphia going through a similar upgrade (mainly to allow for 75 to 90 mph operation) as part of a USD $145 million project.
Keystone Cup The Keystone Cup is the Junior "B" ice hockey championship and trophy for Western Canada. The Championship is the culmination of the champions of 12 hockey leagues in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Northwestern Ontario.
Keystone Kapers Keystone Kapers was a 1983 game published by Activision for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and the ColecoVision. Inspired by Mack Sennett's slapstick Keystone Kops series of silent films, the object of the game is for Officer Keystone Kelly (the user) to catch Harry Hooligan before he can escape from the shopping mall.
Keystone National High School Keystone National High School is an accredited private correspondence school for earning a high school diploma as part of a distance education or homeschool program, based in Pennsylvania. The school's first courses were introduced in 1974 as part of the Learning and Evaluation Center.
Keystone species A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionate effect on its environment relative to its abundance. Such an organism plays a role in its ecosystem that is analogous to the role of a keystone in an arch.
Keystone Service Amtrak's 195-mile (314 km) Keystone Service provides frequent passenger train service along the Amtrak-owned Keystone Corridor and Northeast Corridor between Harrisburg Transportation Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Penn Station in New York via 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.
Keystone School Keystone School, generally called simply Keystone, is a co-educational independent private school for students from kindergarten to twelfth grade, located in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The greater Keystone School consists of the Lower School, serving kindergarten through fourth grade students, the Middle School, serving fifth through eighth grade students, and the Upper School, consisting of the ninth through twelfth grades.
Keystone State Wrestling Alliance (KSWA) The Keystone State Wrestling Alliance (KSWA) is a professional wrestling organization that operates within the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as well as other venues in and around the Commonwealth. Up-to-date information on the promotion can be found at [http://www.
Keystone Studios Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company.
Keystone Wetlands Keystone Heritage Park is an archeological site, an archaic wetlands and a botanical garden. The 52-acre park in El Paso’s Upper Valley is a City-owned park managed by a volunteer Board of Directors who are charged with preserving and developing the Park.
Keystone Wye An interchange of US 16 and US 16A located in the Black Hills, featuring two unique "glulam" (Glue-laminated) timber bridges. The Keystone Wye is a trumpet-style three-way interchange for the two divided highways, constructed in 1966-67 as part of the project converting US 16 to a four-lane, divided highway from Rapid City, South Dakota to Keystone for visitors to Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
Keystone, Island County, Washington Keystone is a small unincorporated community on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington, in the northwestern United States. It is near the Keystone Ferry Landing, a dock for the Washington State Ferries route to Port Townsend that provides a maritime link for State Route 20 across Admiralty Inlet.
Keystroke logging Keystroke logging (often called keylogging) is a diagnostic used in software development that captures the user's keystrokes. It can be useful to determine sources of error in computer systems and is sometimes used to measure employee productivity on certain clerical tasks.
KeySpan KeySpan Corporation is the fifth largest distributor of natural gas in the United States and the largest in the Northeast region of the country. It operates regulated gas utilities in New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire serving 2.
KeySpell KeySpell is a spell checker and teaching aid from UK company KeySpell Limited for Microsoft Windows. KeySpell offers a selection of phonetically similar words, phrases, confusable terms, and examples in context.
Keyta Keyta was used instead of soap in Iceland before it was introduced there. Keyta was made by storing urine from domestic animals for some time, the alkaline fluid left over is rich in urea which is ideal for cleansing wool for example.
Keyumars Keyumars (کیومرث), Arabic transliteration Kayūmarṯ, older Persian Kayōmart, was the first Shāh of the world according to the poet Firdausī's Shāhnāma. The character of Keyumars is based upon a figure from a Zoroastrian creation myth, called in the Avesta Gayō Marətan and in later Zoroastrian texts Gayōmard or Gayōmart.
Keyword (computer programming) In computer programming, a keyword is a word or identifier that has a particular meaning to the programming language. The meaning of keywords -- and, indeed, the meaning of the notion of keyword -- differs widely from language to language.
Keyword (Internet search) A keyword in an Internet search is one of the words used to find matching web pages. It was popularized during the early days of search engine development, as it was not possible to ask natural language questions and find the desired sites.
Keyword bucketing Keyword Bucketing is a tactical execution of a Pay per click (PPC) strategy. Its purpose is to create highly targeted text ad on the search engines to increase click-through rate (CTP) and return on advertising spend (ROAS: the amount of revenue generated per unit of currency spent on a given advertising method)involves categorizing all your keyword]s into similar "buckets".
Keyword density Keyword density is the percentage of words on a web page that match a specified set of keywords. In the context of search engine optimization keyword density can be used as a factor in determining whether a web page is relevant to a specified keyword or keyword phrase.
Keyword-driven testing Keyword-driven testing is a technique that separates much of the programming work from the actual test steps so that the test steps can be developed earlier and can often be maintained with only minor updates, even when the application or testing needs change significantly.
Keywords Keywords are the words that are used to reveal the internal structure of an author's reasoning. While they are used primarily for rhetoric, they are also used in a strictly grammatical sense for structural composition, reasoning, and comprehension.
Kezar Stadium Kezar Stadium is a stadium located in the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. It is the former home of the Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers of the NFL and the current home of the San Francisco Dragons of the MLL and the California Victory of USL-1.
Kezef the Chaos Hound Kezef the Chaos Hound is a fictional creature in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game who is based on Fenrir of Norse mythology, although his name is taken from the first of the five Archangels of Punishment in Hebrew lore. He is a unique being who roams the Outer Planes constantly hunting the Faithful, which are the souls of those who have chosen to venerate one god above all others.
Keziah Jones Keziah Jones (born Olufemi Sanyaolu on january 10, 1968 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist. He describes his musical style as “Blufunk”, which is a fusion between raw blues elements and hard, edgy funk rhythms.
Kezio Musoke Kezio Musoke David is an award winning, Ugandan journalist with a specialty in Information Communication Technology (ICT) journalism. He is a founder member of the South African based Highway Africa News Agency (HANA.
KEA Chelidon The Chelidon (Χελιδών, meaning 'Swallow' in Greek, also spelled in English as Helithon) was the first airplane developed by the Greek state KEA aircraft factory. Its development was completed in a virtually record time of 8 weeks, and first flight was made on February 11, 1927.
KEAM KEAM, short for Kerala Engineering Agricultural Medical is an entrance examination series for admissions to various professional degree courses in the state of Kerala, India. It is conducted by the Office of the Commissioner of Entrance Exams run by the Government of Kerala.
KEAR KEAR is a non-commercial traditional Christian radio station in San Francisco, California, which runs programming from Family Radio. Its transmitter is located in Berkeley, California and broadcasts on 610 kHz AM.
KEBR KEBR 1210 AM is a non-commercial traditional Christian radio station licensed to Rocklin, California and serving the Sacramento market, which runs programming from Family Radio. Its transmitter is located in Roseville, California.
KECO Entertainment Kings Entertainment Company (KECO) owned and/or operated six theme parks around the world. The company was originally owned by Taft Broadcasting and in the mid 1980s was purchased by a few top level excutives of Tafts.
KEduca KEduca is GPL (copyleft free software license) educational software included with the KDE desktop environment. It includes a module for constructing and saving new tests, and a module for loading and running the tests.
KEDT KEDT is a full-service television station in Corpus Christi, Texas, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 16 and in digital on UHF channel 23 as a PBS member station. Founded in 1972, the station is owned by South Texas Public Broadcasting System.
KEEF-TV KEEF-TV Channel 68 was a short-lived television station in Los Angeles, California. In 1983, the FCC authorized Black Television Workshop to construct a non-commercial TV station on Channel 68 in the Los Angeles area.
KEEN-LP KEEN-LP is a low-power Class A television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 17 from its transmitter site in northwest Las Vegas. It was founded August 21, 1990 and is an owned-and-operated station (O&O) of Total Living Network of Aurora, Illinois.
KEEP-FM KEEP is a commercially-supported FM radio station serving the general area of Fredericksburg, Texas, due east from Austin and due north of San Antonio. KEEP is owned by J & J Fritz Media and is broadcast from Johnson City, Texas.
KEF British loudspeaker manufacturer KEF was founded in 1961 by an electrical engineer named Raymond Cooke in a Nissen hut on the premises of a metal working operation called Kent Engineering & Foundry (hence KEF), on the banks of the River Medway, near Maidstone in Kent.
KEGS-TV KEGS is a television station in Goldfield, Nevada, serving the Reno, Nevada market as an affiliate of iaTV and RTN on channel 7. The station also has a low-power repeater in the Las Vegas, Nevada market, KEGS-LP, broadcasting locally on channel 63.
KEJT-LP KEJT-LP and KULX-CA are low-power Class A television stations in Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah, respectively, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channels 50 (Salt Lake City) and 51 (Ogden) as affiliates of Telemundo. KEJT-LP was founded February 25, 1993, and is owned by NBC/Telemundo; KULX-CA was founded February 12, 1992 and is owned by Airwaves, Inc.
KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (高エネルギー加速器研究機構 Kō Enerugī Kasokuki Kenkyū Kikō), commonly known as KEK, is the high-energy physics research organization in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The two major accelerators are the 12 GeV Proton Synchrotron (scheduled for decommissioning in 2005 or 2006) and the KEKB electron-positron collider where the Belle experiment is currently running.
KEKB KEKB is the name of the accelerator used in the Belle Experiment to study CP violation.It is called a B-factory for its copious production of B-mesons which provide a golden mode to study and measure the CP violation due to its property of decaying into other lighter mesons.

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