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| a template depicting the likelihood and potential impact/consequences of risks |
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| a device that detects and measures stimuli in its environment |
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| Radio frequency indentification (RFID) tag |
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| a transponder that communicates with an antenna and transceiver using radio frequency |
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| the ability of machines to simulate human intelligence |
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| A technology that simulates human vision |
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| risk remaining after actions to alter the risk's likelihood or impact |
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| a chance of loss, no loss, or gain |
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| a chance of loss or no loss, but no chance of gain |
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| a technique that involves ceasing or never undertaking an activity so that the possibility of future gains or losses occuring from that activity is eliminated |
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| a risk control technique that reduces the frequency of a particular loss |
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| a risk control technique that reduces the severity of a particular loss |
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| a risk financing technique that involves assumption of risk in which gains and losses are retained within the organization |
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| An accident causation theory that presumes that accidents are the end result of a chain of accident factors |
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| an approach to accident causation that views accidents as energy that is released and that affects objects, including living things, in amounts or at rates that the objects cannot tolerate |
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| Technique of operations review |
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| an approach to accident causation that views the cause of acidents to be a result of management's shortcomings |
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| an analysis that projects the effects a given system system change is likely to have on an existing system |
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| an analysis that dissects a repetitive task, whether performed by a person or machine, to determine potential hazards if each action is not performed |
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| a safety engineering technique also used as an approach to accident causation that considers the mutual effects of the interrelated elements of a system on one another throughout the system's life cycle |
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| a phase in the life of a system when the basic purpose and preliminary design of the system are formulated |
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| a phase in the life of a system when the system's design is contructed and protoypes are tested |
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| a phase in the life of a system when the actual system is created |
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| a phase in the life of a sustem when the system is implemented |
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| a phase in the life of a system when the sustem reaches the end of its useful life and is disposed of |
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| a risk control technique that involves ceasing or never undertaking an activity so that the possibility of a future loss occuring from that activity is eliminated |
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| a risk control technique that isolates loss exposures from one another to minimize the adverse effect of a single loss |
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| A risk control technique that uses backups, spares, or copies of critical property, information, or capabilities and keeps them in reserve |
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| a risk control technique that spreads loss exposures over numerous projects, products, markets, or regions |
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| the event or circumstance that directly leads to an occurrence |
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| a systematic procedure that uses the results of the other analysis techniques to identify the predominant cause of the accident |
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| the agents that directly result in one event causing another |
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| Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) |
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| an analysis that reverses the direction of reasoning in fault tree analysis by starting with causes and branchingout to consequences |
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| the manner in which a perceived or actual defect in an iten, process, or design occurs |
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| the study of a failure's consequences to determine a risk event's root causes |
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| an item's relative complexity within an assembly, system, or function |
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| the consequence of a failure mode on the operation, function,or status of the specific item or systeem level under analysis |
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| the consequence of a failure mode on the operation fuction, or status of the items in the indenture level immediately above the indenture level under analysis |
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| the consequence of a failure mode on the operation, function, or status of the highest indenture level |
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| An analysis that identifies the critical compnents of a system and ranks the severity of losing each component |
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| the product ofo rankings for consequence, occurrence, and detection used to identify critical failure modes when assessing risk within a design or process |
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| a product of the risk priority number elements of consequences and occurrence used to determine the relative risk of a failure mode and effects analysis item |
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| Fault tree analysis (FTA) |
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| an analysis that takes a particular system failure and traces the events leading to the system failure backwards in time |
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| tangible property consisting of land, all structures permanently attached to the land, and whatever is growing on the land |
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| property that has a physical form |
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| property that has no physical form |
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| a storm consisting of violent wind capable of causing damage |
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| the point on an earthquake fault line where the movement of the plates begins |
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| the point on the earth's surface directly above the earthquake focus |
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| Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale |
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| a twelve-level set of descriptions of an earthquake's effect at a specified location, near or far from the earthquake's epicenter |
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| the use of violence, intimidation, or threats to influence others' behavior, often for a political purpose |
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| A type of violent windstorm that consists of winds rotating at speeds of up to 300 miles per hour |
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| Earthquake-resistant construction, used in buildings under three stories tall, that integrates roof and floor diaphragms that can flex to transmit and distribute the forces an earthquake exerts on a structure |
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| Earthquake-resistant construction that relies on the resilence of steel or specially designed reinforced concrete to absorb energy while undergoing considerable distortion and return to their original shapes |
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| a class of construction that has load-bearing components made of wood or other combustible materials such as brick or stone veneer |
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| Joisted masonry construction |
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| a class of construction that has load-bearing exterior walls made of brick, adobe, concrete, gyspum, stone, tile, or similar materials; that has floors and roofs of combustible materials; and that has a fire-resistance rating of at least one hour |
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| Heavy timber construction (mill construction) |
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| a type of joisted masonry construction that is considered more fire resistant than typical joisted masonry construction |
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| Noncombustible construction |
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| a class of construction in which the exterior walls, floor, and roof of a building are constructed of, and supported by, metal gypsum, or other noncombustible materials |
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| Masonry noncombustible construction |
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| masonry construction or construction that includes exterior walls of fire-resistive construction with a fire-resistance rating of not less than one hour |
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| Modified fire-resistive construction |
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| a class of construction that has exterior walls, floors, and roofs of masonry or other fire-resistive materials with a fire-resistance rating of one to two hours |
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| Fire-resistive construction |
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| a class of construction that has exterior walls, floors, and roofs of masonry or other fire-resistive materials with a fire-resistance rating of at least two hours |
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| a section of a structure that so well protected that fire cannot spread from that section to another, or vice versa |
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| an extension of a fire wall through an outer wall |
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| item, substance, process, or event capable of casuing a fire or explosion, such as open flames, sparks, or static electricity |
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| Internal (private) fire protection |
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| the action fire departments and other public facilities take to safe-guard the general public from hostile fire |
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| Automatic fire supression system |
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| a system that uses water, chemicals, carbon dioxide, and foam as distinguishing agents |
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| a system that can detect a fire and suppress it using water or other extinguishants |
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| Wet pipe sprinker systems |
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| automatic fire sprinkler systems with pipes that always contain water under pressure, which is released immediately when a sprinkler head opens |
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| Dry pipe sprinkler systems |
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| automatic fire sprinkler systems with pipes that contain compressed air or another inert gas that holds a valve in the water line shut until an open sprinkler head releases the gas and allows water to flow through the pipe to the sprinkler head |
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| a type of sprinkler system in which all the heads remain permanently open; when activated by a detection system, a deluge valve allows water into the system |
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| Preaction sprinkler system |
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| an automatic fire sprinkler system with automatic and closed-type sprinkler heads connected to a piping system that contains air or nitrogen, with an additional fire detection system that serves the same area as the sprinklers |
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| a type of fire suppression system in which finely divided powders are distributed through pipes to nozzles positioned to allow for full distribution over the fire exposure area |
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| a type of fire suppression in which wet chemicals suppress a grease-or oil-based fire |
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| a type of fire suppression system in which carbon dioxide is stored as a liquid under pressure and is discharged as a gas through the pipes of the system to the fire site |
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| a type of fire suppression that uses gas extinguishing agents (halon, cobon dioxide) to disrupt the chemical reaction in a fire |
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| a chemical foam system that is used in outside areas to smother a fire |
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| Standpipe and hose system |
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| a category of fire suppression equipment that consists of a water main with fire department hose connections inside a building; used in buildings with expansive floor areas and building more than four stories tall |
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| the risk control measures used to protect people and property from the adverse effects of hostile fires |
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| the portion of fire safety that focuses on the minimum building design, construction, operation, and maintenance requirements necessary to assure occupants of a safe exit from the burning portion of the building |
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| an asset's historical cost minus accumulated depreciation |
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| the original cost of a property |
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| the cost to repair or replace property using new materials of like kind and quality with no deduction for depreciation |
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| Functional replacement cost |
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| the cost of replacing damaged property with similar property that performs the same function but might not be identical to the damaged property |
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| the price at which a particular piece of property could be sold on the open market by an unrealted buyer and seller |
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| the amount that property is worth based on the ability of the property to produce income |
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| a creditor who has a right to reclaim property for which a loan was extended |
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| the party temporarily possessing the personal property in a bailment |
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| the owner of the personal property in a bailmant |
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| a contract that requires the bailee to keep the property in safekeeping for a specific purpose and then to return the property to the bailor when the purpose has been fulfilled |
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| fixtures and equipment that may be attached to a building during a tenant's occupancy, with the intention that they be removed when the tenant leaves |
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Intellectual Property
(5) |
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| the product of human intelligence that has economic value |
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| the unauthorized use of an individual's intellectual property |
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| a term that applies to two exceptions to the copyright ownership rule: works created in the course of the author's employment and works created on commission |
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| the legal term for waiting too long to assert a legal right |
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| a way that an organization can difference its services from those of its competitors |
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| the total image of a product or service that allows the product or service to be distinguished from its competition in the marketplace |
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| a process used to discover trade secrets by taking them apart |
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| an intangible asset, a key determinant of future business prospects, resulting from a collection of perceptions and opinions, past and present, about an organization that resides in the consciousness of its steakholders |
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| a wrongful act or an omission, other than a crime or a breach of contract, that invades a legally protected right |
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| a contract whose terms and intentions are explicitly stated |
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| a contract whose terms and intentions are indicated by the actions of the parties to the contract and the surrounding circumstances |
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| a contract that meets all of the requirements to be enforceable |
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| an agreement that despite the parties' intentions, never reaches contract status and is therefore not legally enforceable or binding |
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| a contract that one of the parties can reject based on some circumstance surrounding its execution |
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Unenforceable contract
(6) |
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| a contract that is a valid contract but that because of a technical defect cannot be enforced |
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| a payment awarded by a court to reimburse a victim for actual harm |
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| a form of compensatory damages that awards a sum of money for specific, identifiable expenses associated with the injured person's loss, such as medical expenses or lost wages |
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| a monetary award to compensate a victim for losses, such as pain and suffering, that does not involve specific, measurable expenses |
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| a payment awarded by a court to punish a defendant for a reckless, malicious, or deceitful act to deter similar conduct; the award need not bear any relation to a party's actual damage |
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| a court-ordered equitable remedy requiring a party to perform a certain act, often - but not always - as a result of breach of a contract |
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| a court-ordered equitable remedy requiring a party to act or refrain from acting |
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| a condition that increases the frequency or severity of a loss |
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| a rule of law allowing a person to refuse to disclose confidential communications |
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| a defense that, in certain instances, shields organizations or persons from liability |
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Comparative negligence
(6) |
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| a common-law principle that requires both parties to a loss to share the financial burden of the bodily injury or property damage according to their respective degrees of fault |
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Last clear chance doctrine
(6) |
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| a defense to negligence that holds the party who has the last clear chance to avoid harm and fails to do so solely responsible for the harm |
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Public international law
(6) |
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| a law that concerns the interrelation of nation states and that is governed by treaties and other international agreements |
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Private international law
(6) |
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| a law that involves disputes between individuals or corporations in different countries |
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| any loss that a person or an organization sustains as a result of a claim or suit against that person or organization by someone seeking damages or some other remedy permitted by law |
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| any condition or situation that presents a possibility of loss, whether or not an actual loss occurs |
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| the duty to act in the best interests of another |
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Business judgment rule
(7) |
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| a legal rule that provides that a director will not be personally liable for a decision involving business judgment, provided the director made an informed decision |
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| an act of a corporation that exceeds its chartered powers |
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| the science of designing work space ans equipment based on the needs of the people who use the work space and equipment |
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Human factors engineering
(7) |
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| a process that applies the knowledge of human behavior to design equipment people use on and off the job |
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| a process that views people at work as special kinds of machines functioning within environments filled with other machines |
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| a procedure to reduce pollutants that emanate from an already existing source |
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| a procedure to modify the pollutants that have already been produced |
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Solidification, stabilization, and encapsulation processes
(8) |
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| processes that use additives to reduce the mobility of pollutants so that the waste meets land disposal requirements |
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| the act of breaking into or out of any closed building or space not open for business to commit another felony |
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| the act of taking tangible personal property from another person by force or by threat of force against that person or against another |
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| the removal of merchandise from a store by stealth without purchasing it |
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| an intentional misrepresentation resulting in harm to a person or an organization |
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| the fraudulent taking of money or other personal property by one to whom that property has been entrusted |
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| the act of creating or presenting false documents or artwork as genuine in order to commit fraud |
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| a form of forgery that involves privately duplicating a country's currency or presenting it as genuine with knowledge that it is not |
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| willful and malicious damage to or destruction of property |
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| the deliberate setting of fire to property for a fraudulent or malicious purpose |
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| the act of obtaining confidential information through personal observation or mechanical, digital, or electronic techniques that circumvent efforts to protect the information's confidentiality |
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| a criminal act using a computer to gain authorized or unauthorized access to steal, interrupt, or misuse computer system information |
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| the deliberate and hostile destruction of hardware or software or the disruption of productive processes |
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| a type of burglar alarm system that is designed to signal an alarm whenever unauthorized entry is made into the building |
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| biological identification of an individual using anatomy or physiology |
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Denial-of-service attack
(9) |
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| an attempt to overwhelm a computer system or network with excessive communications in order to deny users access |
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Hold-harmless agreement
(9) |
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| a contractual provision that obligates one of the parties to assume the legal liability of another party |
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| a risk financing technique by which losses are retained by generating funds within the organization to pay for the losses |
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| a false written or oral statement that harms another's reputation |
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| an innovative item that uses sensors; wireless sensor networks; and data collection, transmission, and analysis to further enable the item to be faster, more useful, or otherwise improved |
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| Sets of data that are too large to be gathered and analyzed by traditional methods |
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Wireless sensor network
(11) |
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| a wireless network consisting of individual sensors placed at various locations to exchange data |
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Internet of Things (IoT)
(11) |
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| a network of objects that transmit data to and from each other without human interaction |
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Smart transportation
(11) |
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| the integration of strategic vehicle management solutions with innovative technologies |
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| the use of technological devices to transmit data via wireless communication and GPS tracking |
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| a sensor similar to radar that uses infrared light to detect nearby objects |
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| a step-by-step evaluation method to identify the root cause of an undesirable outcome and the action that can be taken to prevent its recurrence |
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Classification analysis
(11) |
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| a supervised learning technique to segment data according to the values of know attributes to determine the value of a categorical target variable |
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| obtaining information through language recognition |
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| an operations sequence used to solve mathematical problems and to create computer programs |
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Natural language processing
(11) |
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| a component of text mining that uses linguistics to understand human speech or read documents |
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| the process of determining the opinion or emotion behind a selection of text |
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| the science of finding matching patterns in data |
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| a data analysis technique composed of three layers, including an input layer, a hidden layer with nonlinear functions, and an output layer, that is used for complex problems |
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| the possibility that data will end up in the possession of a party who is not authorized to have that data and who can use it in a manner that is harmful to the individual or organization that is the subject of the data and/or the party that collected and stored the data |
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