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oasis 1. In an arid region, an isolated area that supports water-loving plants throughout the year. Oases most commonly occur in depressions, where the water table lies close enough to the surface to be within the reach of plant roots. The groundwater supplying the vegetation is often enriched in salts and the vegetation can be zoned according to the concentration and type of salts present
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2. By analogy, a small area supporting vegetation of one type (e.g. woodland) that is surrounded on all sides by a much larger area supporting vegetation of a quite different type (e.g. an arable field).
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OASIS Members Approve Security and Privacy Authorization Standards for Healthcare.
Business Wire; 12/18/2009; 700+ words
; ...Meet HITSP Requirements BOSTON -- The OASIS international consortium today announced...for Healthcare have both been approved as OASIS Standards, a status that signifies the...Saldhana of Red Hat, co-chairs of the OASIS XSPA Technical Committee. "These XSPA...
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Oasis changes are no mirage
Newspaper article from: Niles Herald-Spectator (IL); 7/17/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Wilton Partners to revamp the oases at no cost to the highway agency or motorists. The Des Plaines oasis, along with other oases in the tollway system, will have...coffeehouses to retail stores. Each oasis will have a full-service McDonald...
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OASIS Members Form Technical Committee to Define XML Standard for Biometrics.
Business Wire; 3/7/2002; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2002 OASIS, the interoperability consortium, today announced that its members have formed the OASIS XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF) Technical...Griffin of Griffin Consulting, chair of the OASIS XCBF Technical Committee. "Existing biometric...
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OASIS and RosettaNet Form Standards Development-to-Implementation Alliance; Consortia Collaborate to Advance E-Business Standards Across Industries.
Business Wire; 6/3/2003; 700+ words
; ...3, 2003 Industry standards consortia, OASIS and RosettaNet, formalized plans for a...with the broad, interoperability focus of OASIS. "This is a productive alignment of activities...emphasized Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. "Under this scenario, RosettaNet can...
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Oasis and Brighterion Partner to Deliver Leading Fraud Prevention Solutions; Oasis to Integrate Brighterion's iPrevent(TM) Solution with End-to-End Payment Management Product Suite.
PR Newswire; 6/2/2003; 700+ words
; ...SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Oasis Technology and Brighterion today announced...signed a distribution agreement enabling Oasis to license Brighterion's next-generation...solutions. According to the agreement, Oasis will distribute iPrevent in North America...
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OASIS Mobilizes to Overcome Challenges to PKI Adoption.
Business Wire; 2/23/2004; 700+ words
; ...WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2004 Members of the OASIS international standards consortium have...Computer Associates, co-chair of the OASIS PKI Technical Committee. "The Committee...Web and e-business standards." The OASIS PKI Action Plan builds on the results of...
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OASIS Seats New Board of Directors and Forms Technical Advisory Board.
Business Wire; 8/22/2002; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2002 OASIS, the XML interoperability consortium...Colin Evans of Intel, Patrick Gannon of OASIS, and Laura Walker of the Federal Reserve System were selected by the OASIS membership to provide business leadership...
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OASIS Members Form Committee to Standardize Symmetric Encryption Key Management Across the Enterprise.
Business Wire; 6/25/2007; 700+ words
; BOSTON -- Members of the OASIS international consortium have formed...cryptographic keys across the enterprise. The OASIS Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure...EKMI Technical Committee is part of the OASIS IDtrust Member Section, a group of that...
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OASIS Works to Establish Classification Standards for Web Security Vulnerabilities.
Business Wire; 5/28/2003; 700+ words
; ...WIRE)--May 28, 2003 Members of the OASIS standards consortium are uniting to create...application security vulnerabilities. The new OASIS Web Application Security (WAS) Technical...protection tools. "Gartner believes the OASIS WAS standard effort will play a key role...
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OASIS Guides Development of Global Electronic Procurement Standardization.
Business Wire; 4/28/2003; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2003 The OASIS interoperability consortium today announced...global e-procurement standards. The OASIS Electronic Procurement Standardization...Institute for Supply Management, chair of the OASIS EPS Technical Committee. "Once we establish...
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Oasis
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
OASIS Formed: 1991, Manchester, England Members...the mid-1990s, the British rock group Oasis appeared to be an unstoppable force. Riding...following in the United States. Uncertain Start Oasis was formed in 1991 in a city that had a powerful...
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Oasis Group
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
OASIS GROUP consortium of three u.s. oil companies in libya. The Oasis Group (originally the Conorada Group) is a consortium...rights in 1955. Following the concession awards, the Oasis companies pooled their acquisitions. By 1965, when...
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Siwa Oasis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
SIWA OASIS Oasis in northwest Egypt. The Siwa oasis, 186 miles (300 km) west of Marsa Matruh, had an estimated population of 23,000 in 2002. In ancient times Siwa was the seat of the oracle of Jupiter Ammon, visited by Alexander the Great...
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oasis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...such as the Sahara, artificial oases have been successfully created...deep sources of groundwater. Oases vary in size, ranging from...a group of date palms to the oasis cities of the deserts of Arabia...of Antarctica are also called oases because they support life surrounded...
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Buraymi Oasis Dispute
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
BURAYMI OASIS DISPUTE territorial dispute over the oasis villages in the buraymi region, 1952 – 1974. The oasis settlements of the Buraymi region have been coveted by regional powers for centuries. The principal contenders for sovereignty...
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