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  2. Data integrity - Wikipedia

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    Data integrity is the opposite of data corruption. [4] The overall intent of any data integrity technique is the same: ensure data is recorded exactly as intended (such as a database correctly rejecting mutually exclusive possibilities). Moreover, upon later retrieval, ensure the data is the same as when it was originally recorded. In short ...

  3. Source–message–channel–receiver model of communication

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    Berlo's main interest in discussing them is to study the conditions of the fidelity of communication. For Berlo, every communication is motivated by a goal the source intends to achieve and fidelity means that the source gets what they want. Fidelity is also called effectiveness and is the opposite of noise. [30]

  4. Planned obsolescence - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] This has the upshot of ensuring constant demand for the product, even though it remains fundamentally the same. Motor vehicle platforms typically undergo a midlife "facelift"—a cosmetic rather than an engineering change for the purpose of cost effectively increasing customer appeal by making previously manufactured versions ...

  5. Usable security - Wikipedia

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    Usable security is a subfield of computer science, human-computer interaction, and cybersecurity concerned with the user interface design of cybersecurity systems. [1] In particular, usable security focuses on ensuring that the security implications of interacting with computer systems, such as via alert dialog boxes, are accessible and understandable to human users.

  6. Level playing field - Wikipedia

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    A level playing field is a concept about fairness, not that each person has an equal chance to succeed, but that they all play by the same set of rules resulting in formal equality of opportunity.

  7. Risk aversion - Wikipedia

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    The reflection effect is an identified pattern of opposite preferences between negative as opposed to positive prospects: people tend to avoid risk when the gamble is between gains, and to seek risks when the gamble is between losses. [18] For example, most people prefer a certain gain of 3,000 to an 80% chance of a gain of 4,000.

  8. Employers and workers alike are wary of what the second Trump ...

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    After four years of the labor-friendly Biden administration, employers and labor groups alike are wary of what lies ahead in Trump's second term.

  9. Twelve-tone technique - Wikipedia

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    The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition.The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded equally often in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any one note [3] through the use of tone rows, orderings of the 12 pitch classes.