A no-kill shelter is an animal shelter that does not kill healthy or treatable animals even when the shelter is full, reserve Euthanasia for terminally ill animals or those considered dangerous to public safety. A no-kill shelter uses many strategies to promote shelter animals; to expanding its resources using volunteers, housing and medical protocols; and to work actively to lower the …

In the fields of physical security and information security, access control (AC) is the selective restriction of access to a place or other resource, while access management describes the process.The act of accessing may mean consuming, entering, or using. Permission to access a resource is called authorization.. Locks and login credentials are two analogous mechanisms …

Statistical process control (SPC) or statistical quality control (SQC) is the application of statistical methods to monitor and control the quality of a production process. This helps to ensure that the process operates efficiently, producing more specification-conforming products with less waste (rework or scrap).SPC can be applied to any process where the "conforming …

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the main protocols of the Internet protocol suite.It originated in the initial network implementation in which it complemented the Internet Protocol (IP). Therefore, the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP.TCP provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of octets (bytes) between applications running …

In software engineering, version control (also known as revision control, source control, or source code management) is a class of systems responsible for managing changes to computer programs, documents, large web sites, or other collections of information.Version control is a component of software configuration management.. Changes are usually identified by a …

The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky.The premiere was a "triumphal success" that appealed to both the public and official critics, receiving an ovation …

The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the "NHS" name (NHS England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales).Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland was created separately …

Original Stanford experiment. The first experiment in delayed gratification was conducted by Walter Mischel and Ebbe B. Ebbesen at Stanford University in 1970. The purpose of the study was to understand when the control of delayed gratification, the ability to wait to obtain something that one wants, that develops in children.Most of the research conducted during that time was …

A relationship breakup, breakup, or break-up is the termination of a relationship.The act is commonly termed "dumping [someone]" in slang when it is initiated by one partner. The term is less likely to be applied to a married couple, where a breakup is typically called a separation or divorce.When a couple engaged to be married breaks up, it is typically called a "broken …

No Frills (currently styled NOFRILLS and formerly styled nofrills) is a Canadian chain of discount supermarkets, owned by Loblaw Companies Limited, a subsidiary of George Weston Limited. There are over 200 franchise stores located in nine Canadian provinces.