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  2. Heart click - Wikipedia

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    With newer, non-invasive imaging techniques, the origin of other, so-called adventitial sounds or heart clicks has been appreciated. These are short, high-pitched sounds. [citation needed] The mitral valve in cases of mitral stenosis may open with an opening snap [1] [2] on the beginning of diastole.

  3. Optical disc drive - Wikipedia

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    With both types of mechanisms, if a CD or DVD is left in the drive after the computer is turned off, the disc cannot be ejected using the normal eject mechanism of the drive. However, tray-loading drives account for this situation by providing a small hole where one can insert a paperclip to manually open the drive tray to retrieve the disc.

  4. Optical disc - Wikipedia

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    Formats such as CD-R and DVD-R are "Write once read many" or write-once, while CD-RW and DVD-RW are rewritable, more like a magnetic recording hard disk drive (HDD). Media technologies vary, for example, M-DISC media uses a rock-like layer to retain data for longer than conventional recordable media.

  5. Aortic regurgitation - Wikipedia

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    Aortic regurgitation (AR), also known as aortic insufficiency (AI), is the leaking of the aortic valve of the heart that causes blood to flow in the reverse direction during ventricular diastole, from the aorta into the left ventricle.

  6. Compact Disc and DVD copy protection - Wikipedia

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    If the drive has to seek forwards, the sector's original content "Jill" is returned. If the drive has to seek backwards, the sector's twin "Mary" is returned. A protected program can check whether the CD-ROM is original by positioning the drive behind sector 6553 and then reading from it — expecting the Mary version to appear.

  7. Universal Disk Format - Wikipedia

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    Universal Disk Format (UDF) is an open, vendor-neutral file system for computer data storage for a broad range of media. In practice, it has been most widely used for DVDs and newer optical disc formats, supplanting ISO 9660.

  8. Optical storage media writing and reading speed - Wikipedia

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    The DVD and Blu-ray discs hold a higher capacity of data, so reading or writing those discs in the same 74-minute time-frame requires a higher data transfer rate. Drive speed can be limited intentionally to reduce noise from the drive or slow down ripping, such as the firmware component Riplock.

  9. Comparison of high-definition optical disc formats - Wikipedia

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    The first 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray Disc release was the movie Click, which was released on October 10, 2006. As of July 2008, over 95% of Blu-ray movies/games are published on 50 GB dual layer discs with the remainder on 25 GB discs. [10] 85% of HD DVD movies are published on 30 GB dual layer discs, with the remainder on 15 GB discs. [11] [12]