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The Active Directory provides information from authoritative sources about people and resources (such as employees, partners, customers, servers, roles, directories, information, digital certificates, and so forth). It serves as the internal and external Certificate Distribution System. Active Directory is also the centralized management interface for digital certificate issuance. 

In the above dawn, the feeling was often that DNA would not go on the record for a long time. DNA is just a digital code, two bits for each of A, G, C, and T. This idea raises the question of why bother Isn t much of the information digitalized in your DNA already ... 

Information of the energy imparted to the entrance screen is then transferred through a number of conversions in the detector chain, which introduce pixel-to-pixel correlation, before it is stored as digital data. This correlation has to be considered to be able to predict absolute signal and noise levels in the stored, data the noise would otherwise be overestimated. 

Except for the phase-contrast detector in STEM [9], STEM and SEM detectors do not track the position of the recorded electron. The spatial information of an image is fonned instead by assigning the measured electron current to the known position of the scaimed incident electron beam. This infomiation is then mapped into a 2D pixel array, which is depicted either on a TV screen or digitalized in a computer. 

Specinfo, from Chemical Concepts, is a factual database information system for spectroscopic data with more than 660000 digital spectra of 150000 associated structures [24], The database covers nuclear magnetic resonance spectra ( H-, C-, N-, O-, F-, P-NMR), infrared spectra (IR), and mass spectra (MS). In addition, experimental conditions (instrument, solvent, temperature), coupling constants, relaxation time, and bibliographic data are included. The data is cross-linked to CAS Registry, Beilstein, and NUMERIGUIDE. 

Recording a measurement provides information about both its magnitude and uncertainty. For example, if we weigh a sample on a balance and record its mass as 1.2637 g, we assume that all digits, except the last, are known exactly. We assume that the last digit has an uncertainty of at least 1, giving an absolute uncertainty of ... 

When a mass spectrum has been acquired by the spectrometer/computer system, it is already in digital form as m/z values versus peak heights (ion abundances), and it is a simple matter for the computer to compare each spectrum in the library with that of the unknown until it finds a match. The shortened search is carried out first, and the computer reports the best fits or matches between the unknown and spectra in the library. A search of even 60,000 to 70,000 spectra takes only a few seconds, particularly if transputers are used, thus saving the operator a great deal of time. Even a partial match can be valuable because, although the required structure may not have been found in the library, it is more than likely that some of the library compounds will have stractural pieces that can be recognized from a partial fit and so provide information on at least part of the structure of the unknown. 

All information into or out of a computer is therefore not continuous (analog) but flows as bits switched on and off (digital), like a series of electronic pulses. 

This reduction in information is achieved by a preprocessor, which uses the digital voltages corresponding to an ion peak to estimate the peak area (ion abundance) and centroid (mean arrival time of peak, equivalent to m/z value) these two pieces of information — plus a flag to identify the peak — are stored. 

Data system. Components used to record and process information during the analysis of a sample. The system includes a computer and an analog-to-digital conversion module as well as other control devices for data recording, storage, and manipulation. 

Digital signal. A signal that represents information in a computer-compatible form as a sequence of (binary) numbers that can describe discrete samples of an analog signal. 

Control Devices. Control devices have advanced from manual control to sophisticated computet-assisted operation. Radiation pyrometers in conjunction with thermocouples monitor furnace temperatures at several locations (see Temperature measurement). Batch tilting is usually automatically controlled. Combustion air and fuel are metered and controlled for optimum efficiency. For regeneration-type units, furnace reversal also operates on a timed program. Data acquisition and digital display of operating parameters are part of a supervisory control system. The grouping of display information at the control center is typical of modem furnaces. 

M. Fleming, ed.. Online Factbook, Digital Information Group, Stamford, Conn., 1992. 

CD-ROM disks are nearly identical to the weU-known compact disk-digital audio (CD-DA short CD). The information on a CD-ROM is stamped in the form of clearly defined pits on the disk surface during the disk s manufacture, using injection mol ding or injection stamping techniques. A metal stamper transfers the digital information to the disk s surface. 

The digital information is represented by the position and length of microscopic pits on the surface of a CD-ROM that are arranged in a spiral track. A CD-ROM of 120 mm (4.75 in.) diameter has a gross capacity (unformatted) of about 600 MByte and a net capacity (formatted) of 540 MByte... 

The CD-I (compact disk-interactive) is a low cost alternative to the CD-ROM for the entertainment industry. CD-I is a subset of the CD-ROM standard data format. It allows the digital storage of data, audio, and video information in a form that permits rapid interaction with a computer. CD-I is compatible to CD-ROM and to CD-AD 0 = 120 mm. The definition of the CD-I format is put down in the Green Book (Philips/Sony). 

CD-V (compact disk-video) is premolded for both video and digital music 0 = 305 mm oi0 = 203 mm. There is also a videocHp version (0 = 120 mm) for 22 min CD audio and 5 min of video information. CD-VEP (video extended play) 0 = 200 mm, is recorded on both sides, whereas for CD-VLP (video long play) 0 = 200 mm, one- or two-sided recording can be selected max. 60 min video/side. 

Compared to photographic films, BR is handicapped due to its very low light sensitivity. Also, as a possible material for disk-shaped digital optical information storage, BR does not offer an advantage over estabUshed magnetooptical materials ia spite of its higher line resolutioa, because ia both cases... 

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