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	myABC is a list of answers, compiled as the need arises. A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ADA (Americans with disabilities ACT) This document contains scoping and technical requirements for accessibility to buildings and facilities by individuals with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. These scoping and technical requirements are to be applied during the design, construction, and alteration of buildings and facilities. People who have difficulty walking or maintaining balance or who use crutches, canes, or walkers, and those with restricted gaits are particularly sensitive to slipping and tripping hazards. More... ANGER MANAGEMENT (Under Construction) Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. But when it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems—problems at work, in your personal relationships, and in the overall quality of your life. And it can make you feel as though you're at the mercy of an unpredictable and powerful emotion. The goal of anger management is to reduce both your emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes. You can't get rid of, or avoid, the things or the people that enrage you, nor can you change them, but you can learn to control your reactions. More... BUSINESS A business is a commercial enterprise, profession, or trade operated for the purpose of earning a profit by providing a product or service. Businesses are created by Entrepreneurs who put money at risk to promote a particular venture for the purpose of a profit. They vary in size from a one-person Sole Proprietorship to partnerships between people and to International Corporations having billions of dollars in assets and thousands of employees. More... CALCULUS In general, calculus is an abstract theory developed in a purely formal way. The calculus, more properly called analysis (or real analysis or, in older literature, infinitesimal analysis) is the branch of mathematics studying the rate of change of quantities (which can be interpreted as slopes of curves) and the length, area, and volume of objects. The calculus is sometimes divided into differential and integral calculus, concerned with derivatives and integrals. More... CARTOONS Historically (Italian cartone meaning large paper) cartoon is a full-size drawing made on paper as a study for a further artwork, such as a fresco, a painting or tapestry. In modern print media, a cartoon is an illustration, usually humorous, ironic or satirical in intent. John Leech's Cartoon no.1: "Substance and Shadow", published in Punch, 1843, was the first ever use of the word cartoon to refer to a satirical drawing. The cartoon satirizes the preparatory cartoons for frescoes in the new Palace of Westminster. (See more on www.john-leech-archive.org.uk). Modern gag cartoons are often published in newspapers or magazines and consist of a cartoon with a caption or a speech balloon. Many consider New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno, the father of the modern gag cartoons. His cartoons were published in 1925-1968. One of his famous quotes are, "Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number." And then came the comic strips, a short series of cartoon illustrations in a sequence. Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, "cartoon" came to refer to animation, and this is the sense in which "cartoon" is most commonly used today. More... CONCRETE In construction, concrete is a composite building material made from the combination of aggregate and cement binder. The most common form of concrete consists of Portland cement, mineral aggregates (generally gravel and sand) and water. Contrary to common belief, concrete does not solidify from drying after mixing and placement. Instead, the cement hydrates, gluing the other components together and eventually creating a stone-like material. More... DANCE It is hard to say when dance became part of our culture as it does not provide identifiable physicals artifacts as other human activities like hunting etc. It is obvious that dance has certainly been an important part of our ceremonies, rituals, celebrations and entertainment since before the birth of the earliest human civilizations. Dancing figures in prehistoric Egyptian tomb paintings and the Bhimbetka rock-shelter paintings in India from 3300 BC prove that human s have always liked to dance. Dance can be mythological, historical, spiritually healing, traditional, ceremonial, ethnic etc. Normally dance and music go together and this paired development has continued since prehistoric times. Some dances are performed without the music like tap dance and they create their own rhythm. More... DATABASE A database is a collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval. It is normally structured and indexed for user access and review. Databases may exist in the form of physical files (folders, documents, etc.) or formatted automated data processing system data files. The computer program that is used to manage and query a computer based database is known as a database management system (DBMS). More.... DISCLAIMER Under no circumstances shall ONE-PPM be liable for any damages suffered by you, including any incidental, special or consequential damages (including, without limitation, any lost profits or damages for business interruption, loss of information, programs or other data) that result from access to, use of, or inability to use this site or due to any breach of security associated with the transmission of information through the internet, even if ONE-PPM was advised of the possibility of such damages. More... DISCUSSION An extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic. More... ELECTRICITY Science states that certain particles possess a force field or charge. The charge possessed by an electron is negative while the charge possessed by a proton is positive. Electricity is a phenomena resulting from the presence, flow and effect of electric charge arising from the behavior of electrons and protons that is caused by the attraction of particles with opposite charges and the repulsion of particles with the same charge. More... EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT/ WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT Every organisation faces the challenge of maintaining the personal, educational, developmental and performance data of its employees. Scheduling, tracking, evaluating and controlling the bahaviour, targets, performance and activities can become a nightmare. Many try to manage this complex concept by maintaining an awkward and haphazardly scattered mix of spreadsheets, databases and file folders. More... ENGINEERING Engineering is all around us and a part of virtually everything we see and use. Here is an overview of the major disciplines of engineering. More...   FIRE More... FOOD More... FORMWORK/ FALSEWORK Formwork should be designed so that the concrete slabs, columns, beams, walls or other members will have the correct desired dimensions, shape, alignment, elevation, and position within established tolerances. More... GEOMETRY A Greek word, meaning measuring earth or field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. It is the mathematics of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids. More... GLOBAL STATISTICS/ INFORMATION GRAPHICS HUMOR Humor is a form of entertainment and a form of human communication, intended to make people laugh and feel happy. The origins of the word "humour" lie in the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids, or humours, controlled human health and emotion. Different types of humour which appeal to different sectors of humanity exist – for instance, young children particularly favour slapstick, while satire tends to appeal more to the older and better-educated. Humour often varies by locality and does not easily transfer from one culture to another. This happens because humour often relies on a context, and someone not understanding the context will usually not understand the humour). Types/ Techniques of Humor. HTML (Hypertext markup language) HTML is the lingua franca for publishing hypertext on the World Wide Web. It is a non-proprietary format based upon SGML, and can be created and processed by a wide range of tools, from simple plain text editors - you type it in from scratch- to sophisticated WYSIWYG authoring tools. HTML uses tags such as <h1> and </h1> to structure text into headings, paragraphs, lists, hypertext links etc. More... HYDRAULICS The physical science and technology of the static and dynamic behavior of fluids. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY The development, installation, and implementation of computer systems and applications. More... LANGUAGES More... LAW More... LIFE MANAGEMENT Its a set of values and skills that would make a person a responsible individual and a contributing participant in the society. Its an emerging field of studies, not meant to earn a job or a title, but to help students learn and incorporate the necessary skills to have a productive, complete and knowledgeable lives. More... MATERIALS More... MATHEMATICS More... MEETINGS An assembly or gathering of people, as for a business, social, or religious purpose. More... METALLURGY The science that deals with procedures used in extracting metals from their ores, purifying and alloying metals, and creating useful objects from metals. Metallurgy, in production engineering, is concerned with the production of metallic components for use in consumer or engineering products. This involves the production of alloys, the shaping, the heat treatment and the surface treatment of the product. The task of the metallurgist is to achieve design criteria specified by the mechanical engineer, such as cost, weight, strength, toughness, hardness, corrosion resistance and performance in extremes of temperature. The operating environment of the product is very important; a well-designed material will resist expected failure modes such as corrosion, stress concentration, metal fatigue, creep and environmental stress fracture. Metals are shaped by processes such as casting, forging, rolling, extrusion, sintering, metalworking, machining and fabrication. More... MUSIC Music is organised vibration. Its an art form that puts togather audible sounds and silence. Although it cannot contain emotions, it is sometimes designed to manipulate and transform the emotions of the listeners. Music is a personal response to vibration since the same piece of music will affect people differently. Lord Byron said, "There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if we have ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres". More NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING Non-destructive testing is the branch of engineering concerned with all methods of detecting and evaluating flaws in materials. Flaws can affect the serviceability of the material or structure, so NDT is important in guaranteeing safe operation as well as in quality control and assessing plant life. The flaws may be cracks or inclusions in welds and castings, or variations in structural properties which can lead to loss of strength or failure in service. The essential feature of NDT is that the test process itself produces no deleterious effects on the material or structure under test. More... PHYSICS The science of matter and energy and of interactions between the two, grouped in traditional fields such as acoustics, optics, mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism, as well as in modern extensions including atomic and nuclear physics, cryogenics, solid-state physics, particle physics, and plasma physics. It deals with the structure of matter and the interactions between the fundamental constituents of the observable universe. Long called natural philosophy (from the Greek physikos), physics is concerned with all aspects of nature, covering the behaviour of objects under the action of given forces and the nature and origin of gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear force fields. More... POLITICS Politics is a process by which decisions are made within groups. Generally applied to behavior within governments, politics is observed in all human (and many non-human) group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. Normally, its a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. Seems like conduct of public affairs for private advantage. More... PRICES We all need to know the prices and I nneded the ones I put here. More... PROCESS A process is a naturally occurring or designed sequence of operations or events, possibly taking up time, space, expertise or other resource, which produces some outcome. A process may be identified by the changes it creates in the properties of one or more objects under its influence. A process may be categorized as singular, recurrent, or periodic. A singular process would be one which occurs only once. Few processes in nature can be considered singular. Most processes found in nature are recurrent, or repeat more than once. Recurring processes which repeat at a constant rate are considered periodic. More... PROGRAM MANAGEMENT Program management is the process of managing a portfolio of multiple ongoing inter-dependent projects. Sometimes it requires hundreds, or even thousands, of separate projects. In an organization or Enterprise, Program Management also reflects the emphasis on coordinating and prioritizing resources across projects, departments, and entities to insure that resource contention is managed from a global focus. More... QUALITY CONTROL/ QUALITY ASSURANCE Both the terms are often used incorrectly. Quality Control could be defined as the way in which quality in a product is guaranteed. It is a system of routine technical activities to measure and control the quality of a product or a service. Quality Control system involves providing routine and consistent checks to ensure data integrity, correctness and completeness. It also involves identifying and addressing errors and omissions. Finally the documentation of all activities is done for further processing or archiving. More... SOHAIL MOUGHAL Born December 14, 1964 in Peshawar Pakistan. More... SOUND Sound is a disturbance of mechanical energy that propagates through matter as a wave. Sound waves are basically pressure variations travelling through the air. When the sound wave travels, it compresses air molecules together at one point. This is known as the high pressure zone. After the compression, an expansion of molecules occurs. This is known as the low pressure zone. This process continues along the path of the sound wave until the energy becomes too weak to hear. More... SPECIFICATIONS A detailed, exact statement of particulars, especially a statement prescribing materials, dimensions, and quality of work for something to be built, installed, or manufactured. e.g. A generic specification for sealants and expansion joints in a building. STRUCTURES Something made up of a number of parts that are held or put together in a particular way. More... TRAVELOGUE A travelogue is a record of the events, sights and personal feelings which a traveller experiences as they go from place to place. The format of these travelogues can be at its simplest a diary with events listed day by day but more usually they are combined into a more coherent narrative much more like a story. The style of individual travelogues varies as much as the reasons for travelling do. They can be just a simple description of what was seen, an investigation into the reason behind these new sights or even an investigation into the authors' own beliefs and motivations for travel (e.g Laurence Sterne's, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy). Some of the most important travelogues, and many of those that are considered as literature, are ones that recount exploration or conquests. These offer new, strange and sometimes sensationalised accounts of completely alien cultures and civilizations which often become the standard texts on a region for many years afterwards or else brings the region to the notice of a new generation of travellers. The Travels of Marco Polo, the travels of Ibn Battuta, The history of Alexander the Great by Callisthenes and the explorations of Richard Burton are just a few of this type of book. In later years, when travel to well known and frequently visited areas, became more akin to tourism the style of the works changed accordingly. A good example of this is the Grand Tour European nobles would take of Europe to see the art and architecture of old civilizations. More... TRUSS A truss is defined as a framed structure composed of members connected to each other at their ends and forming triangles which lie in the same plane. To cover a certian area, a series of trusses are placed with their ends resting on two parallel lines of columns or two parallel walls. Pulins connect the trusses. Purlins are supported by the principal rafters of the truss. The purlins support the roof covering. Trusses are normally used when the span of the roof is very large and using beams will make the construction uneconomical. More... UNITS More... WELDING Welding is a fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence. Coalescence is the process by which two or more droplets or particles merge during contact to form a single daughter droplet (or bubble). This is often done by melting the workpieces and adding a filler material to form a pool of molten material (the weld puddle) that cools to become a strong joint, but sometimes pressure is used in conjunction with heat, or by itself, to produce the weld. More... WRITING It is a visible recording of language peculiar to the human species. Scholars place the beginning of writing between 6,000 and 3500 B.C. More...