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Response to intervention In education, Response To Intervention (RTI) involves examining the performance of individuals after an educational intervention (reading tutoring, peer tutoring, phonics interventions) and then collecting data on the changes in performance after these interventions. The RTI model is based on frequent data collection and changes in instruction based on the results of these interventions.
Response to the 2005 London bombings The 7 July 2005 London bombings were a series of four terrorist bombs which exploded on the London Underground and a bus during the morning rush hour, killing more than 50 people. The attacks prompted a massive response from the emergency services, and in the immediate aftermath the almost complete shut down of London's public transport system.
Response ZT The Response ZT 615 by MacGregor Golf, was a putter which was used by Jack Nicklaus to win the 1986 Masters. Although the company had planned to sell only 6,000 for the year, the day after Nicklaus' victory they were deluged with 5,000 orders.
Response-Ability Response-Ability is a volunteer service program sponsored by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. It trains, inspires and supports beginning teachers in inner-city Catholic Schools in Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles as well as in the Dominican Republic.
Responses to Mark Foley scandal The 2006 Mark Foley Scandal centered on sexually explicit messages sent by United States Republican Congressman Mark Foley to Congressional pages. This prompted a number of responses from different political groups, from the gay community, from the Christian community and from recipients of Foley's fundraising.
Responsibility (song) "Responsibility" is a song by Washington punk band MxPx. It was released in 2000 and appeared on their fifth album The Ever Passing Moment and was a minor radio hit, peaking at #24 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart.
Responsibility (Unification Church theology) The doctrine of responsibility in Unification Church theology is often poorly understood by outsiders. It is actually key to the Divine Principle ideology, and relates both to the Mission of the Messiah and to the Three Blessings, as well as to the church's doctrine of Predestination.
Responsibility assignment matrix Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) is typically used to link activities to resources to ensure that the scope's components are each assigned to an individual or team ( Source: "Project Management Institute"). One type of RAM is based on the RACI format (Responsible, Accountable, Consult and Inform).
Responsibility assumption Responsibility assumption is a doctrine in the spirituality and personal growth fields holding that each individual has substantial or total responsibility for the events and circumstances that befall them in their life. While there is little that is notable about the notion that each person has at least some role in shaping their experience, the doctrine of responsibility assumption posits that the individual's mental contribution to his or her own experience is substantially greater than is normally thought.
Responsibility for the Beslan school hostage crisis The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan Massacre) began when armed Muslim terrorists took more than 1200 school children and adults hostage on September 1, 2004, at School Number One (SNO) in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
Responsibility in DUI Laws Responsibility in DUI Laws, Inc. (RIDL) is a non-profit organization of citizens who are concerned over what they see as temperance-oriented trends in driving under the influence (DUI) and driving while intoxicated (DWI) laws as well as how they are enforced.
Responsibility to protect Responsibility to Protect is a recently developed concept in international relations. It aims to provide a legal and ethical basis for "humanitarian intervention" : the intervention by external actors (preferably the international community through the UN) in a state that is unwilling or unable to fight genocide, massive killings and other massive human rights violations.
Responsible autonomy In the study of organizations and how they work, it is often suggested that there are only three ways of "getting things done": hierarchy, heterarchy and responsible autonomy. This theory is called triarchy theory.
Responsible Care Responsible Care is a global, voluntary initiative developed autonomously by the chemical industry for the chemical industry - it is run in 52 countries whose combined chemical industries account for nearly 90% of global chemicals production.
Responsible drug use The concept of responsible drug use is that a person can use drugs with reduced or eliminated risk of negatively effecting other parts of one's life or other peoples lives. Advocates point to the many well-known artists and intellectuals who have used drugs, experimentally or otherwise, with few detrimental effects on their lives.
Responsible entity A responsible entity is a peculiarly Australian invention designed to replace the manager/trustee in managed investment schemes. It was created by the Managed Investments Act 1998, which made significant amendments to the prescribed interest provisions contained in the Australian Corporations Act.
Responsible Fatherhood Responsible Fatherhood is a concept that describes involved parenting by noncustodial fathers and represents the antithesis of the concept of the stereotyped "deadbeat dad". Today, the majority of American children will spend some part of their childhood in a single parent household – typically without a father.
Responsible government Responsible government is a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability which is the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy. Governments in Westminster democracies are responsible to Parliament (and more specifically to the lower, popularly-representative, house) rather than to the monarch, or, in the colonial context, to the imperial government.
Responsible information management Responsible Information Management is a concept, founded on an intersection between, on the one hand, values, ethics and legislation, and on the other, governance, technology & strategic visioning. It is based on an extension of the meaning of privacy and in particular informational self-determination.
Responsions Responsions, was previously a name describing the first of the three examinations once required for an academic degree at the University of Oxford. It was nicknamed the Little Go and was generally taken to students prior to or shortly after matriculation.
Responsory A responsory is a type of chant in Christian liturgies that involves one section singing a respond, answered by another section singing a verse, then the respond is sung again by the first section, followed by a different verse from the second, et al. Famous responsories include the Matin Responsory by Palestrina, translated into English from a medieval chant that includes the following text:
Ressentiment Ressentiment (pronounced r&"-sän-tE-'män, or "ray-sawn-tea-mawn") is a term used in Psychology and Existentialist Philosophy that comes from the French word 'ressentiment' (meaning 'resentment': fr. Latin intensive prefix 're', and 'sentire' "to feel").
Ressources humaines Ressources humaines is a 1999 French film (Human Resources) directed by Laurent Cantet. As the name implies, the subject of the film is the workplace and the personal tragedies that result from the conflicts between management and labour, and corporations and individuals.
Rest (physics) Rest in physics and in the technical sense of geometric mensuration denotes a particular relation between a pair of observers. By Albert Einstein's celebrated definition, two observers measure having been at rest to each other in any particular trial if they succeed to identify a third observer as middle between each other, in that trial.
Rest area In the United States, Canada, Australia and parts of Europe, a rest area, service station, rest stop, resto, service area, service plaza, travel plaza, or service centre is a public facility, located adjacent to a highway or interstate, at which drivers and passengers can eat and drink, take a stroll, let their children play in grassy park-like areas, walk their pets, check and/or refuel their vehicle, sleep, and use the restroom before resuming a long drive on the road.
Rest cure The rest cure, or bed rest cure, was a 19th century cure for many mental disorders, particularly hysteria. The most important feature of this cure is that the patient must undergo complete bed rest for 4 weeks to 2 months.
Rest in peace The phrase "rest in peace" typically occurs on headstones, often abbreviated "RIP." "Rest in peace" is a prayer that the deceased may rest peacefully, not in torment, while awaiting Judgment Day.
Rest of Canada Party The Rest of Canada Party was a Canadian political party that intended to run candidates in all provinces outside of Ontario and Quebec, which the party believed were unfairly running the country. The party planned to form a coalition government with the Bloc Québécois if ever elected.
Rest of the world The Rest of the World, within sports and games played at the international competitive level, refers to a team of players from many countries of origin who compete against a single individual or a team from as single group, such as a club or country.
Rest step In mountaineering and hiking, the rest step is a human walking gait used in ascending steep slopes. Its essential characteristic is a pause of motion with the rear leg vertical and fully extended, while the front leg is relaxed except as needed to adjust the balancing of the climber's body and burden on the rear leg.
Restaurant (magazine) Top 50 Restaurant magazine produces an annual list of the 50 best restaurants in the world based on a poll of international chefs and critics. In 2006 El Bulli in (Spain) pushed the 2005 winner The Fat Duck down to second place.
Restaurant Brands Restaurant Brands is a Fast Food company based in New Zealand. It operates most of New Zealand's KFC, Pizza Hut, and Starbucks stores and provides management and support services to New Zealands independent KFC franchisees.
Restaurant Empire Restaurant Empire is a computer game where one gets to design, own, and operate, a restaurant. They control everything from the kind of cuisine they serve (American, French, or Italian) to what specific food they serve, to their staff.
Restaurant Makeover Restaurant Makeover is a television series hosted by chefs Brad Long, Renee Chauvin, Lynn Crawford, Massimo Capra, Corbin Tomaszeski, and David Adjey along with designers Jessica Cotton, Robin De Groot, Meredith Heron, Cherie Nicole Stinson, and Glen Peloso, who perform renovation makeovers on restaurants in dire need for a transformation. The premise of the show is to challenge two restaurant professionals, one designer and one chef, to overhaul a struggling restaurant with a very limited budget and time.
Restaurant rating Restaurant ratings identify restaurants according to their quality, using various notations such as stars or other symbols, or numbers. Stars are a familiar and popular symbol, with ratings of one to four or five stars commonly used.
Restaurant Row (Beverly Hills) Restaurant Row is a several block long area of La Cienega Boulevard, essentially from Santa Monica Boulevard south to Wilshire Boulevard. The term Restaurant Row is identified with Beverly Hills, California, but a section of this area lies within West Hollywood.
Restaurant Row (New York City) Restaurant Row is the popular nickname for a section of 46th Street in New York City, New York. Located in Midtown Manhattan between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, the name is derived from the numerous small restaurants that line the street.
Restaurante Arroyo Restaurante Arroyo, in the area of Tlalpan in southern Mexico City, is the world's largest single Mexican restaurant, with seating for 2,200 patrons in 9 dining rooms and parking for 600 cars. It has musical stages, an array of wandering mariachi and jarocho bands, a play area for piñata parties, a cockfighting pit and a mechanical bull.
Restaurants du Cœur The Restaurants du Cœur (far more commonly and familiarly known as the Restos du Cœur; "Restaurants of the Heart") is a French charitable organisation, the main activity of which is to distribute food packages and hot meals to the needy.
Restauration (Switzerland) The Restauration is the period of Swiss history lasting from 1814 to 1847. The term refers to the restoration of the Ancien Régime (federalism), reverting the changes imposed by Napoleon Bonaparte with the centralist Helvetic Republic from 1798 and the partial reversion to the old system with the Act of Mediation of 1803.
Restavec The term Restavec (also spelled 'Restavek'; deriving from the French phrase reste avec, meaning "stay with") refers to a social system in Haiti whereby parents unable to care for their children send them to relatives or strangers living in more urban areas where they receive food and housing (and sometimes an education) in exchange for light housework. In reality Restavecs often live in grinding poverty, enslaved to their 'hosts' and seldom receiving an education.
Restenneth Priory Restenneth Priory was a monastic house of Augustinian canons founded by Jedburgh Abbey, with the patronage of King Máel Coluim IV of Scotland, in 1153. Although there is little literary evidence, archaeological evidence strongly indicates that there was a monastery at Restenneth from very early times.
Restigouche County, New Brunswick Restigouche County (2001 population 36,134) is located in north-central New Brunswick, Canada. The county is named for the Restigouche River which flows through the county and is famous for its salmon pools, which have attracted wealthy American and Canadian tourists to the region's summer colonies for decades.
Restigouche West Restigouche West (French: Restigouche-ouest) was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. This riding was created in the 1973 redistribution when New Brunswick moved to single member districts from Bloc voting.
Resting ion channel Resting channels are ion channels in the plasma membrane of a cell that remain open at all times. Also called leakage channels or leak channels, resting channels allow ions to cross the membrane down their electrochemical gradient whether or not the cell is depolarized.
Resting potential The resting potential of a cell is the membrane potential that would be maintained if there were no action potentials, synaptic potentials, or other active changes in the membrane potential. In most cells the resting potential has a negative value, which by convention means that there is excess negative charge inside compared to outside.
Resting Spring Range The Resting Spring Range is found in the eastern Mojave Desert of California near the Nevada state line in the United States. The range lies in a generally north-south direction to the west of the Nopah Range and southeast of the Amargosa Range and Greenwater Range.
Restinga A restinga is a distinct type of coastal tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest found in Brazil. Restingas form on sandy, acidic, and nutrient-poor soils, and are characterized by medium sized trees and shrubs adapted to the drier and nutrient-poor conditions.
Restitutio in integrum The latin maxim restitutio in integrum (restoration to original condition) is one of the primary guiding principles behind the awarding of damages in common law negligence claims. The general rule, as the principle implies, is that the amount of compensation awarded should put the successful plaintiff in the position he or she would have been had the tortious action not been committed.
Restitution (theology) Restitution in moral theology signifies an act of commutative justice by which exact reparation as far as possible is made for an injury that has been done to another.Restitution - Catholic Encyclopedia article
Restless (Buffy episode) "Restless" is the 22nd and last episode of season 4 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, characterized by bizarre dream settings which illustrate the four main characters' overall themes as well as providing extensive hints about future developments.
Restless Flycatcher The Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta is a passerine bird. It was previously classified with the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, but the paradise flycatchers, monarch flycatchers and Australasian fantails are now normally grouped with the drongos in the family Dicruridae, which has most of its members in Australasia and tropical southern Asia.
Restoration (film) Restoration is a 1995 film which tells the story of a young doctor, Robert Merivel, who finds himself in the service of King Charles II of England after having saved the King's favorite spaniel. Merivel finds himself enjoying a life of pleasure and popularity at court, until the King informs him that he has arranged for Merivel to wed Celia, the King's favorite mistress.
Restoration (Latter Day Saints) In the Latter Day Saint movement, the Restoration was a period in its early history during which a number of events occurred that were understood to be necessary to restore the early Christian church as demonstrated in the New Testament, and to prepare the earth for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. In particular, Mormons believe that heavenly (either resurrected or translated) beings appeared to Joseph Smith, Jr.
Restoration (newspaper) Restoration is a Canadian English language Catholic newspaper based in Combermere, Ontario, and circulated internationally. It was founded in 1947 by the famed American newspaperman Eddie Doherty and his wife, social justice activist Catherine Doherty.
Restoration Branches Restoration Branches are the primary organizational and congregational units of the RLDS/Restoration movement. They were formed primarily by church members withdrawing from active support of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS) church organization during the 1980s.
Restoration colony A restoration colony was one of a number of land grants in North America given by King Charles II of England in the latter half of the 17th century, ostensibly as a reward to his supporters in the Stuart Restoration. The grants marked the resumption of English colonization of the Americas after a 30-year hiatus.
Restoration comedy Restoration comedy is the name given to English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1700. After public stage performances had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theatres in 1660 signaled a rebirth of English drama.
Restoration device A restoration device, or tugger, is a device used for applying tension to skin during the process of non-surgical foreskin restoration. Those who use such a device employ the technique of tissue expansion, which causes new skin to grow.
Restoration ecology Restoration ecology is the study of recuperating degraded, damaged or destroyed ecosystems through active human intervention. Restoration ecology specifically refers to the scientific study; however the term is often used to include its application: ecological or, more generally, environmental restoration.
Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints The Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a sect of Mormonism headquartered in Independence, Missouri. The church was formed beginning in 1981 from members of the Community of Christ who had grown disaffected with that church's late-Twentieth-Century reforms.
Restoration literature Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660 to 1689), which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. In general, the term is used to denote roughly homogeneous styles of literature that centre on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II.
Restoration spectacular The Restoration spectacular, or elaborately staged "machine play", hit the London public stage in the late 17th-century Restoration period, enthralling audiences with action, music, dance, moveable scenery, baroque illusionistic painting, gorgeous costumes, and special effects such as trapdoor tricks, "flying" actors, and fireworks. These shows have always had a bad reputation as a vulgar and commercial threat to the witty, "legitimate" Restoration drama; however, they drew Londoners in unprecedented numbers and left them dazzled and delighted.
Restoration style Restoration style, also known as Carolean style (from the Latin Carolus (Charles), refers to the decorative arts popular in England from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to the late 1680s after Charles II (reigned 1660 – 1685).
Restorationism Restorationism refers to unaffiliated religious movements that attempted to transcend Protestant denominationalism and orthodox Christian creeds to restore Christianity to its original form. The term applies particularly to movements that arose in the eastern United States and Canada in the early and mid 19th century in the wake of the Second Great Awakening.
Restorative justice Restorative justice is commonly known as a theory of criminal justice that focuses on crime as an act against another individual or community rather than the state. The victim plays a major role in the process and may receive some type of restitution from the offender.
Restore Our Associational Rights Restore Our Associational Rights, Inc. (ROAR) was an organization formed by United States college fraternities to pursue legislation that would protect them from action by college administrations stifling students' right of association.
RestoreCorps RestoreCorps is a comprehensive training and volunteer recruitment program to build the capacity of local watershed organizations and to accelerate the on-the-ground delivery of restoration projects in throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed from New York to Virginia. It was created in 2002 by the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay under the direction of its president David Bancroft who coined the term that "All restoration is local".
Restored Apostolic Mission Church The Restored Apostolic Mission Church (Hersteld Apostolische Zendingkerk - HAZK) was a bible-believing, chiliastic church society in the Netherlands, Germany, South Africa and Australia. She has come forth from the Catholic Apostolic Congregation at Hamburg that separated herself from the mother-church in 1863.
Restored Church of Jesus Christ The Restored Church of Jesus Christ is a tiny Latter Day Saint church headquartered in Independence, Missouri. The organization disavows the label "Mormon", but claims to be the original church established in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr.
Restored Name King James Version The Restored Name King James Version is a revision of the King James Bible which uses the Hebrew tetragrammaton YHWH for the name of God. It is an undated online version that is based on the Holy Name Bible text of the Scripture Research Association as modified by the individual hosting the website.
Restored trains Restored trains are operated by a museum, a club, or by a private company, for entertainment and historical purposes. The trains usually follow a route (or part of a route) used in the past for more utilitarian reasons.
Restoring force Restoring force, in a physics context, is a variable force that gives rise to an equilibrium in a physical system. If the system be perturbed away from the equilibrium, the restoring force will tend to bring the system back toward equilibrium.
Restoring the Balance Restoring the Balance is a radio segment that occasionally appears on Australian radio station Triple J. The primary concept behind the show is a satire of the contrasting political views between the conservative Australian Howard government, and the majority of the Left wing government-funded Triple J radio station.
Restoring the Lost Constitution Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty is a book on the US constitution by Randy Barnett, where he outlines his theory of constitutional legitimacy, interpretation and construction. He argues for an interpretation of the Constitution based on its "original meaning" (as distinct from the founders' original intent).
Restoule Provincial Park Restoule Provincial Park is a provincially maintained park in central Ontario, Canada. It is located between Restoule Lake and Stormy Lake and extends along the banks of the Restoule River until its entry into the French River (excluding the banks belonging to the Dokis First Nation).
Restoule, Ontario Restoule is a small community situated on the Restoule River between Commanda Lake, and Restoule Lake in central Ontario, Canada. Restoule is located in Patterson Township, which is an unincorporated township in Central Unorganized Parry Sound District.
Restraint of trade Restraint of trade is a restriction on a person's freedom to conduct business in a specified or unspecified location for a specified or unspecified length of time. Such restrictions are normally enacted by contracts.
Restraint on alienation A restraint on alienation, in the law of real property, is a clause used in the conveyance of real property that seeks to prohibit the recipient from selling or otherwise transferring his interest in the property. Under the common law such restraints are void as against the public policy of allowing landowners to freely dispose of their property.
Restricted airspace Restricted airspace refers to an area (volume) of airspace in which the local controlling authorities have determined that air traffic must be restricted (if not continually prohibited) for safety or security concerns. It is one of many types of special use airspace designations and is depicted on aeronautical charts with the letter "R" followed by a serial number.
Restricted Duty Ribbon The Restricted Duty Ribbon is a decoration of the United States Coast Guard which was first created on March 3, 1984. The award recognizes those Coast Guard personnel who have completed an unaccompanied duty tour in which dependents were not eligible.
Restricted Enforcement Unit The Restricted Enforcement Unit (REU) is an expert-level committee set up in 1987 by the British government to control exports of military technology from the United Kingdom, in particular the illegal export or trade of conventional weaponry and weapons of mass destruction not licensed for export by the Department of Trade and Industry.
Restricted Line Officer Restricted Line Officers in the United States Navy and Navy Reserve are line officers who are not eligible for Command at Sea. There are many different types and communities, including Engineering Duty Officers, Aerospace Engineering Duty Officers, Aerospace Maintenance Duty Officers, Naval Intelligence Officers, Information Warfare Officers, Information Operations Officers, Public Affairs Officers, Naval Oceanographers, Information Professionals, and Human Resources.
Restricted Open-shell Hartree-Fock Restricted Open-shell Hartree-Fock (ROHF) is a variant of Hartree-Fock theory for open shell molecules. It uses doubly occupied molecular orbitals as far as possible and then singly occupied orbitals for the unpaired electrons.
Restricted stock Restricted stock, also known as letter stock or restricted securities, refers to stock of a company that is not fully transferable until certain conditions have been met. Upon satisfaction of those conditions, the stock becomes transferable by the person holding the award.
Restricted Service Licence A UK Restricted Service Licence (often called an RSL), is typically granted to radio stations and television stations broadcasting within the UK to serve a local community or a special event. Licences are granted by the broadcasting authority Ofcom (formerly the Radio Authority and the Independent Television Commission, respectively).
Restricted use pesticides Because of safety concerns, some pesticides are not available to the general public in the United States. The "Restricted Use" classification restricts a product, or its uses, to use by a certificated pesticide applicator or under the direct supervision of a certified applicator.
Restriction digest A restriction digest is a molecular biology procedure used to prepare DNA for analysis or other processing. Also known as DNA fragmentation, it uses a restriction enzyme to selectively cleave strands of DNA into shorter segments, which are more suitable for analytical techniques such as chromatography.
Restriction enzyme A restriction enzyme (or restriction endonuclease) is an enzyme that cuts double-stranded DNA. The enzyme makes two incisions, one through each of the phosphate backbones of the double helix without damaging the bases.
Restriction fragment A DNA fragment resulting from cutting of a DNA strand by a restriction enzyme (restriction endonucleases), a process called restriction. Each restriction enzyme is highly specific, recognising a particular short DNA sequence, or restriction site, and cutting both DNA strands at specific points within this site.
Restriction fragment length polymorphism In molecular biology, the term restriction fragment length polymorphism (or RFLP, often pronounced "rif-lip") is used in two related contexts: as a characteristic of DNA molecules (arising from their differing nucleotide sequences) by which they may be distinguished, and as the laboratory technique which uses this characteristic to compare DNA molecules. The technique is utilized in genetic fingerprinting and paternity testing.
Restriction maps In molecular biology, restriction maps are used to compare relatedness of two different species at the molecular level. "Restriction mapping" is one of the three methods used by scientists, the other two methods being: DNA-DNA hybridization, and DNA or RNA sequence analysis.
Restriction sites Restriction sites, or restriction recognition sites, are particular sequences of nucleotides that are recognized by restriction enzymes as sites to cut the DNA molecule. The sites are generally palindromic, (because restriction enzymes usually bind as homodimers) and a particular enzyme may cut between two nucleotides within its recognition site, or somewhere nearby.
Restrictions on motorcycle use on freeways The concept of a freeway (a public way intended primarily for high speed travel over long distances) has resulted in a set of highways with engineering features such as long sight distances, wide marked lanes and the absence of cross traffic. These features provide faster and safer travel for all users.
Restrictive covenant A restrictive covenant is a legal obligation imposed in a deed by the seller upon the buyer of real estate to do or not to do something. Such restrictions frequently "run with the land" and are enforceable on subsequent buyers of the property.
Restrictiveness In semantics, a modifier is said to be restrictive (or defining) if it restricts the reference of its head. For example, in "the red car is fancier than the blue one", red and blue are restrictive, because they restrict which cars car and one are referring to.
Restructuring Restructuring is the corporate management term for the act of partially dismantling and reorganizing a company for the purpose of making it more efficient and therefore more profitable. It generally involves selling off portions of the company and making severe staff reductions.
Result A result is the final consequence of a sequence of actions or events (broadly incidents and accidents) expressed qualitatively or quantitatively, being a loss, injury, disadvantage, advantage, gain, victory or simply a value. There may be a range of possible outcomes associated with an event possibly depending on the point of view, historical distance or relevance.
Result set An SQL result set is a set of rows from a database, as well as meta-information about the query such as the column names, and the types and sizes of each column. Depending on the database system, the number of rows in the result set may or may not be known.
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