remedial investigation/feasibility study — (RI/FS) USA A process that occurs at a Superfund site before remediation begins. The remedial investigation (RI) is a method of collecting data that helps determine the: • Affected site s condition. • Nature of the hazard … Law dictionary
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol — (EIGRP) is a Cisco proprietary routing protocol loosely based on their original IGRP. EIGRP is an advanced distance vector routing protocol, with optimizations to minimize both the routing instability incurred after topology changes, as well as… … Wikipedia
Diffusing update algorithm — DUAL, the Diffusing Update ALgorithm, is the algorithm used by Cisco s EIGRP routing protocol to ensure that a given route is recalculated globally whenever it might cause a routing loop. According to Cisco, the full name of the algorithm is DUAL … Wikipedia
Colossal carbon tube — Colossal carbon tubes (CCTs) are a tubular form of carbon. In contrast to the carbon nanotubes (CNTs), colossal carbon tubes have much larger diameters ranging between 40 and 100 μm. Their walls have a corrugated structure with abundant pores, as … Wikipedia
Demand curve — An example of a demand curve shifting In economics, the demand curve is the graph depicting the relationship between the price of a certain commodity, and the amount of it that consumers are willing and able to purchase at that given price. It is … Wikipedia
Wealden Line — Taking its name from its route through the chalk hills of the North and South Downs of the Weald, England, the Wealden Line [http://www.wealdenlink.org.uk/ Wealden Link Website] is a partly abandoned double track railway line in East Sussex and… … Wikipedia
Needs assessment — is a systematic process for determining and addressing needs, or gaps between current conditions and desired conditions or wants . The discrepancy between the current condition and wanted condition must be measured to appropriately identify the… … Wikipedia
environment — environmental, adj. environmentally, adv. /en vuy reuhn meuhnt, vuy euhrn /, n. 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. 2. Ecol. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors… … Universalium
Bargaining problem — The two person bargaining problem is a problem of understanding how two agents should cooperate when non cooperation leads to Pareto inefficient results. It is in essence an equilibrium selection problem; Many games have multiple equilibria with… … Wikipedia
Water Resources Development Act of 1986 — The Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (WRDA 1986) is part of USPL|99|662, a series of acts enacted by Congress of the United States on November 17, 1986. [ [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi bin/bdquery/D?d099:1:./temp/ bdVNjS:@@@D summ2=m… … Wikipedia
