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Leading Question
LEADING QUESTION A query that suggests to the witness how it is to be answered or puts words into the mouth of the witness to be merely repeated in his or her response. Leading questions should not be used on the direct examination of a witness unless necessary to develop the person's testimony.... Read more |
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SQL
SQL Databases are designed, built, and populated with data for a specific purpose and for an intended group of users. Databases are built for many different users, including banks, hospitals, high schools, government agencies, and manufacturing companies. The data ... Read more |
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Lu Jiuyuan
Lu Chiu-yuan Lu Chiu-yuan (1139-1193) was a Chinese thinker, public official, and man of letters. He is regarded as the representative of the idealistic wing, as distinct from the rationalistic wing, of Sung-dynasty Neo-Confucianism. Lu Chiu-yuan, better known in China by his literary name... Read more |
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Jutes
Jutes. Bede's account of the Jutes is highly specific—that they were a Germanic people who inhabited a region north of the Angles and that their settlements in England had been in Kent, the Isle of Wight, and on the mainland just north of the Solent. Their leaders had been Hengist and Horsa.... Read more |
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Cora
Cora ETHNONYMS: Coras-nayaritas, Nayares, Nayaritas Orientation Identification. The Cora are an ethnic group who live almost exclusively in the state of Nayarit, Mexico. The terms "Nayares," "Nayaritas," and "Coras-nayaritas" are derived from the name of an ancient political-religious... Read more |
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Notes and Queries
Notes and Queries, a periodical founded in 1849 by Thoms, designed to furnish a means for the interchange of thought and information among those... |
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Dresden, raid on
...THUNDERCLAP, went so far as to comment to the British Chiefs of Staff that ‘the destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing.’ Harris, however, remained unrepentant, commenting on Churchill's objection... |
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Thoms, William John
...He was secretary of the Camden Society from 1838 to 1873. In 1846, in an article in the Athenaeum headed ‘Folk Lore’ he introduced this term into the English language. Encouraged by Dilke he founded Notes and Queries in 1849. |
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perception
...sensation of this or that colour. For as sound in a bell or musical string ... is nothing but a trembling motion.Then (in Query 23 of Opticks) Newton speculates on something like a neural mechanism of vision:Is not vision perform'd chiefly by the... |
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Athenian Gazette
Athenian Gazette, later the Athenian Mercury, a periodical published by Dunton, a question-and-answer paper, and thus a precursor of Notes and Queries. It first appeared in March 1691 and flourished until 1697. |
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Kettell, Samuel
...Goodrich, edited Specimens of American Poetry (3 vols., 1829), an ardently patriotic collection of 189 writers, from Cotton Mather to Whittier, conceived as an answer to Sydney Smith's query, “Who reads an American book?” |
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Cuttle, Captain Edward
Cuttle, Captain Edward, a character in Dickens's Dombey and Son. His favourite expression is, ‘When found, make a note of.’ (See Notes and Queries.) |
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Staff of the Court, Nonjudicial
...1935) supervises a staff of four, distributes slip opinions, maintains a press room and broadcast booths, and responds to queries other than interpretation of opinions and orders. The curator's office (created in 1974) with six assistants plus interns... |
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Williams, Roger
...became an intimate of Milton and Cromwell, taking part in the Revolution. To current arguments on church government he added Queries of Highest Consideration (1644), addressed to both houses of Parliament as objection to the establishment of a national... |
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blindness, recovery from
...is the cube, which is the sphere. Suppose then the cube and the sphere placed on a table, and the blind man made to see: query, Whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell which is the globe, which the cube? To... |
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query
query A line of text used to...most frequent use of queries on the Internet involves the QUERY LANGUAGES used by search...the WORLD WIDE WEB. Queries expressed in such languages...CONNECTIVES. For example, the query ‘fibre optic’ AND... |
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search query
search query A query processed by a SEARCH ENGINE which returns a list of WEB PAGES that closely match the query. Such a query is expressed in a query language whose statements contain a list of KEYWORDS separated by BOOLEAN CONNECTIVES. |
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Structured Query Language
Structured Query Language A QUERY LANGUAGE used to extract data from a database. It is usually referred to as SQL. It is often embedded within another language such as JAVA. The vast majority of databases held in distributed systems now accept SQL queries. See also SQL SERVER. |
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query language
query language A language used to select data from...more than a specified salary. The two main query languages found on the Internet or in DISTRIBUTED...large structured databases, and the simple query languages involving KEYWORDS and BOOLEAN... |
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query processing
query processing 1. The retrieval of information from a database according to a...the database itself remaining unchanged. 2. In the context of a specific query language, the technique of translating the retrieval criteria specified using... |
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query by example
query by example (QBE) A screen-based form-filling user interface to a relational database. The software derives the searches to be made from examples given by the user. |
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search engine
...use a restricted syntax for queries consisting of keywords and...OR. Most of them can accept queries expressed in natural language...discovering the intent of the query is usually very primitive...interpretation of natural-language queries is more ... |
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database server
...number of functions. First, they interpret queries expressed in the STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE programming language sent to it by...accessed by another user. Third, they optimize queries. An SQL QUERY can be executed in a number of ways and the... |
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help desk
help desk A location where queries by phone, email, fax, personal callers...models of help desk: unskilled, where all queries are passed on, skilled, where up to 90% of the queries are answered at the desk, and expert, where... |
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truth-maintenance system
...between assertions in a logical database. Given a query and a database, a truth-maintenance system will...statements, called an explanation, that supports the query; hence the query statement can be derived from the statements in the... |
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query
query • noun 1. we are happy to answer any queries synonyms: question, inquiry. 2. there was a query as to who owned the hotel synonyms: doubt, uncertainty...inquire, question. 2. some folk may query his credentials synonyms: question, call... |
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doubt
...dubiousness, suspicion, confusion; queries, questions; formal dubiety.See note...uneasy about, feel apprehensive about, query, question, challenge.antonym: trust...one's) doubts about, question, query, be dubious.antonym: be confident... |
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question
...question • noun 1. please answer my question synonyms: inquiry, query; interrogation.antonyms: answer, response. 2. there...informal grill, pump. 2. she questioned his motives synonyms: query, call into question, challenge, dispute, cast aspersions... |
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uncertainty
...disquiet, wariness, chariness, leeriness, skepticism; queries, questions; formal dubiety. 3. she pushed the anxious uncertainties...apprehension, quandary, reservation, scruple, second thought, query, question, question mark, suspicion. 4. there was uncertainty... |
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hole
...informal it was pretty easy to poke holes in Dr. Delvecchio's theoriessynonyms: find fault with, pick apart, deconstruct, query, quibble with; deflate, puncture. in the hole the diner was in the hole within six months after Abdul's sons took oversynonyms... |
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inquiry
inquiry • noun 1. an inquiry about our location synonyms: question, query. 2. an inquiry into alleged security leaks synonyms: investigation, probe, examination, review, analysis, exploration; inquest, hearing. |
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answer
...solution, explanation, resolution. 3. his answer to the chargesynonyms: defense, plea, refutation, rebuttal, vindication. 4. his answer was to leave the roomsynonyms: reaction, response.antonyms: question; query; puzzle. |
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inquire
...phrase: inquire into inquire into the cause of the firesynonyms: make inquiries into, conduct an inquiry into, question, query, investigate, research, look into, examine, explore, probe, scan, search, scrutinize, study, inspect. |
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interrogation
...cross-examination, cross-questioning, pumping, grilling, third degree, probing, inquisition, catechization; inquiry, catechism. 2. complain about the policeman's interrogationssynonyms: question, query, inquiry, poser. |
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ask
ask • verb 1. he asked what time we opened synonyms: inquire, query, want to know; question, interrogate, quiz.antonym: answer. 2. they want to ask a few questions synonyms: put forward, pose... |
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Query forms: Groups look for a way to avoid hints of fraud and abuse.
...repeatedly provided inadequately. CMS discussion on queries has already raised that there are good and bad query processes, she said. AHIMAs approach to queries is to ensure that the query process should be in pl |
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Using MySQL query cache to speed up query performance.(Report)
...example, a client can disable use of the query cache for its own queries like this: Fig. 4. Set query_cache...following MySQL statements: * RESET QUERY CACHE--remove all the queries from query cache; * FLUSH ... |
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Action queries: manipulating your data.(ACCESS)
...but they can be changed to action queries using the Query Tools Design Ribbon. Three commonly used action queries are append, update, and delete queries. Append Query If you want to import data from one... |
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Select queries: using your data to answer business questions.(ACCESS)
...of the data using criteria, sorting, and calculations. Each query starts out as a "select query." (Other types include update, delete, and append queries.) A select query selects and displays data and can be used to supply data for a... |
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A query about queries.
...Byline: Various A query about queries Databases QPreviously...so keeping the query next to the data makes sense; queries usually subset the...I sometimes see a query and think, 'Oh...procedure.' Other queries, particularly ... |
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WRITE GOOD QUERIES AND FIRE OFF SCADS
...to a genealogical query? Surely, as good...you are sending out queries regularly? Genealogical...the charge for queries is modest. There...writing a successful query, and they all revolve...Lines." Send your query to the ... |
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MetaMatrix Announces MetaMatrix Query, New Product for Java Developers.
...optimizing distributed queries. By using MetaMatrix Query, Java developers can reduce...Federation, Optimizes Queries MetaMatrix Query provides a very productive...transforms a single SQL query into multiple queries ... |
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Interactive and automatic query expansion: a comparative study with an...
...optimal for the entire query set, but may be sub-optimal for individual queries. This means some queries may give better retrieval...smaller values of n. The query dependent expansion...optimal for individual queries. This may be ... |
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BI/Query 5.0 Empowers Hummingbird's New Business Intelligence Solution
...their own answers. BI/Query offers the ability, unique...to create heterogeneous queries and reports -- that is, queries and reports containing...the new features in BI/Query are: - Editable super queries -- allows users to combine... |
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To query, or not to query? Each side has its view of the form.
To query, or not to query? Each side has its view of the form Should forms be considered medical...answered before they can code appropriately. Sometimes they use a query form to ask physicians about incomplete documentation. Physicians... |
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