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	Acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In psychology, specifically in behaviorism and social learning theory, acquisition is the process by which humans adapt to their environments, learn or become conditioned.
		In business, an acquisition is when one company purchases another (see mergers and acquisitions, takeover).
		Acquisition is an open source based peer-to-peer Gnutella client for Mac OS X.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acquisition (191 words)

	Language acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		First language acquisition concerns the development of language in children, while second language acquisition focuses on language development in adults as well.
		The father of most nativist theories of language acquisition is linguist Noam Chomsky, who brought greater attention to the innate capacity of children for learning language.
		The argument from the poverty of stimulus is that there are principles of grammar that cannot be learned on the basis of positive input alone, however complete and grammatical that evidence is. This argument is not vulnerable to objection based on evidence from interaction studies such as Snow's.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Language_acquisition (1375 words)

	Learn more about Language acquisition in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The "father" of most nativist theories of language acquisition is Noam Chomsky, who brought greater attention to the innate capacity of children for learning language, which had widely been considered a purely cultural phenomenon based on imitation.
		They are born with the major principles of language in place, and with some parameters to set (such as whether sentences in the language they are to acquire must have explicit subjects).
		James Asher has put forth a trademarked term for his theories on language acquisition, TPR that could be qualified as corporal verbosity.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/la/language_acquisition.html (912 words)

	Language Acquisition
		Chomsky argued that language acquisition falsified these beliefs in a single stroke: children learn languages that are governed by highly subtle and abstract principles, and they do so without explicit instruction or any other environmental clues to the nature of such principles.
		Successful acquisition of language typically happens by 4 (as we shall see in the next section), is guaranteed for children up to the age of six, is steadily compromised from then until shortly after puberty, and is rare thereafter.
		Many models of language acquisition assume that the input to the child consists of a sentence and a representation of the meaning of that sentence, inferred from context and from the child's knowledge of the meanings of the words (e.g.
	www.ecs.soton.ac.uk /~harnad/Papers/Py104/pinker.langacq.html (18914 words)

	Acquisition Workforce Development Program
		Acquisition Workforce members whom management cannot reassign due to their inability to meet educational standards established by statute or policy, will receive priority for support.
		Acquisition workforce members requesting tuition assistance to pursue courses or degrees desired for the employee's current career field, or for the purpose of developing mobility among other acquisition career fields.
		Employees who are not currently assigned to acquisition positions, but whose performance in their current positions could be enhanced by developing competencies in acquisition-related subjects specified in the statute or who would be strong candidates for a career in an acquisition field.
	www.disa.mil /mps/tuition.html (1272 words)

	Data Acquisition
		In the simplest form, a technician logging the temperature of an oven on a piece of paper is performing data acquisition.
		Data acquisition products serve as a focal point in a system, tying together a wide variety of products, such as sensors that indicate temperature, flow, level, or pressure.
		For multi-channel data acquisition devices the sample rate is typically given as the speed of the analog-to-digital converter(A/D).
	www.omega.com /prodinfo/dataacquisition.html (790 words)

	language acquisition on Encyclopedia.com
		The acquisition of native languages is studied primarily by developmental psychologists and psycholinguists.
		According to this view, children are able to learn the “superficial” grammar of a particular language because all intelligible languages are founded on a “deep structure” of grammatical rules that are universal and that correspond to an innate capacity of the human brain.
		Stages in the acquisition of a native language can be measured by the increasing complexity and originality of a child's utterances.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/l1/languag-ac.asp (938 words)

	Acquisition article - Acquisition engineering satellite communications signal communications satellite - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the business sense, acquisition is when one company purchases another; see takeover.
		Acquisition is an open source peer-to-peer Gnutella client for Mac OS X.
		Acquisition article - Acquisition definition - what means Acquisition
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Acquisition (123 words)

	plope - Acquisition
		Acquisition is the technology that allows dynamic behavior to be shared between Zope objects via containment.
		Acquisition is useful for providing objects with behavior that doesn't need to be specified by their own methods or methods found in their inheritance hierarchies.
		Acquisition is particularly useful for sharing information (such as headers and footers) between objects in different folders as well.
	www.plope.com /Books/2_7Edition/Acquisition.stx (1971 words)

	FAR -- Part 7Acquisition Planning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This includes ensuring that only necessary and cost-effective requirements are included, at the most appropriate time in the acquisition cycle, in solicitations and resulting contracts for the design, development, and production of new systems, or for modifications to existing systems that involve redesign of systems or subsystems.
		In order to facilitate attainment of the acquisition objectives, the plan must identify those milestones at which decisions should be made (see paragraph (b)(18) of this section).
		Discuss all applicable environmental and energy conservation objectives associated with the acquisition (see Part 23), the applicability of an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement (see 40 CFR 1502), the proposed resolution of environmental issues, and any environmentally-related requirements to be included in solicitations and contracts.
	farsite.hill.af.mil /reghtml/regs/far2afmcfars/fardfars/far/07.htm (7633 words)

	Acquisition. Innovative Mac P2P.
		Acquisition provides recommendations of new artists to investigate.
		Acquisition filters junk from known file spammers and you can also selectively add files to a permanent fllist.
		Unlawful use of Acquisition is prohibited by the license agreement.
	www.acquisitionx.com (191 words)

	IBM grabs consulting giant for $3.5 billion \| CNET News.com
		The acquisition by IBM, which already has huge presence in the consulting market, will likely affect other companies such as Sun Microsystems, Dell Computer, Hewlett-Packard and EDS that have sought to beef up their own services, said Illuminata analyst Jonathan Eunice.
		IBM will pay for the acquisition with $2.7 billion in cash from reserves and current cash flow, supplemented with a $400 million convertible note and $400 million in stock, said IBM Chief Financial Officer John Joyce in the conference call.
		The acquisition will boost IBM earnings by the fourth quarter of 2003, IBM said, but that increase likely will be about offset by a decrease in the first half of 2003, Joyce said.
	news.com.com /2100-1001-947283.html (1757 words)

	Ministry of Defence - Industry Tenders and Acquisitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Acquisition Division acquires equipment to be operated by the three services of the New Zealand Defence Force - the Royal New Zealand Navy, the New Zealand Army, and the Royal New Zealand Air Force, generally where the value of the project is in excess of NZ$7 million.
		Thereafter, the Division is responsible for the total life cycle of the acquisition process.
		This includes: obtaining all Government approvals, developing the acquisition strategy, preparing documentation, the tendering and evaluation process, contract management and project management, through to the end of warranty phase.
	www.defence.govt.nz /industry.shtml (645 words)

	Jon Udell: Nature vs Nurture: The deep magic of Zope acquisition
		We answer this question in the affirmative by demonstrating many cases in which the character of an object must be affected by the environment it is put in.
		The authors point out that "there are abundant cases of containment hierarchies where contained objects have different behaviours depending on their surrounding environment." Although acquisition as an object-oriented programming discipline is wildly complex and esoteric, its uses are common and familiar.
		The "wrapping" that acquisition does is actually a cleaner, simpler model that just happens to end up turning into a complex pile of algebra if you care.
	udell.roninhouse.com /bytecols/2001-06-13.html (1799 words)

	Requirements Acquisition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Knowledge acquisition emerged as a distinct area of research and development in the early 1980s as a response to the need to provide scientific and engineering methodologies for the construction of expert and knowledge-based systems.
		Early research on knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems emphasized the acquisition of the knowledge assumed to underlie human expertise in areas such as medical diagnosis, where conventional system analysis and software engineering had failed to provide computer emulation of the expertise.
		A common aspect to both knowledge acquisitions and requirements engineering is that the relevant knowledge is generally not available from a single person, but instead involves a process of elicitation and negotiation across a group of people.
	ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca /articles/SE/ReqAcq (10550 words)

	Environmental Acquisition Home Page
		Acquisition is used extensively throughout the Zope application framework.
		Evan Simpson: ``Acquisition: A feature of standard Zope objects which allows them to change their behavior automatically based on the context in which they are called.
		One of Zope's main cool technologies is acquisition, and acquisition of DTML Methods by objects is a prime example of this power.
	www.ccs.neu.edu /home/lorenz/research/acquisition (1445 words)

	DS9 Encyclopedia & Lexicon - Rules of Acquisition
		Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to.
		The Rules of Acquisition have 47 commentaries, 900 major and minor judgments, and 10,000 considered opinions.
		In the TNG episode "Bloodlines", Riker mentions that the Ferengi government is debating an amendment to the Rules of Acquisition.
	ds9encyclopedia.0catch.com /rules.htm (906 words)

	Seven Steps to PBSC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Performance-based acquisition is a collective responsibility that involves representatives from budget, technical, contracting, logistics, legal, and program offices.
		Performance-based service acquisition can be daunting, with its discussion of work breakdown structures, quality assurance plans, and contractor surveillance.
		It is intended to make the subject of PBSC accessible for all and shift the paradigm from traditional "acquisition think" into one of collaborative performance-oriented teamwork with a focus on program performance and improvement, not simply contract compliance.
	www.arnet.gov /Library/OFPP/BestPractices/pbsc/introduction.html (694 words)

	Earlychildhood.com Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In recent years, researchers have been actively involved in studying bilingual acquisition and, although all the research evidence is not yet in, we now have a more detailed description of important aspects of bilingual development than previously.
		Their language exposure can fluctuate greatly over time, if, for example, the parent who is the primary source of one of the languages takes a job in another city and is only home on weekends.
		It is important to remember that there are large individual differences in language acquisition -- some children acquire their first words or use complex utterances much earlier than other children.
	www.earlychildhood.com /Articles/index.cfm?FuseAction=Article&A=38 (1829 words)

	Data acquisition and analysis, analog to digital converters and more - BIOPAC. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Data acquisition and analysis - We have a complete range of data acquisition and analysis systems, USB analog to digital converters, wireless Ethernet, high-speed data acquisition solutions, GLP 21 CFR Part 11, and more.
		BIOPAC Systems, Inc., has the most complete range of data acquisition and analysis systems, wireless Ethernet and USB analog to digital converters, high-speed data acquisition solutions, amplifiers, transducers, electrodes and accessories for life science research and education.
		Data acquisition and analysis - We have a complete range of data acquisition and analysis systems, USB analog to digital converters, wireless Ethernet, high-speed data acquisition solutions and more.
	www.biopac.com (188 words)

	Data acquisition Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Data acquisition is the sampling of the real world to generate data that can be manipulated by a computer.
		Data acquisition typically involves acquisition of signals and waveforms and processing the signals to obtain desired information.
		The components of data acquisition systems include appropriate sensors that convert any measurement parameter to an electrical signal, which is acquired by data acquisition hardware.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/d/da/data_acquisition.html (157 words)

	Data Acquisition and Control Glossary
		The difference between the minimum output (normally zero) of a data acquisition device and the rated capacity.
		The GPIB standard was designed to connect several instruments to computers for data acquisition and control.
		A high transient voltage at one input may damage not only the input circuit, but the rest of the data acquisition hardware, and, by propagating through the signal conditioning and A-D circuits, eventually damage the computer system as well.
	www.windmill.co.uk /glossary.html (3345 words)

	Multi-Camera Acquisition - Tutorial - Development Library - National Instruments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Acquisitions can be synchronized via Real-Time System Integration (RTSI) bus between image acquisition devices.
		If you use a single-channel image acquisition device, you must have an external switch to control which camera is routed to the video input.
		This VI acquires an image from the first camera as soon as it is available and waits for the beginning of the next available frame on the second channel.
	zone.ni.com /devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/D91BAC1317F9D0A686256C9300769A0D (663 words)

	AcqWeb - Welcome
		The Honorable Kenneth J. Krieg is the new Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
		In addition, the Acting Director for Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (DPAP) approved a DFARS class deviation authorizing the use of the Government Purchase Card by contracting officers supporting Hurricane Katrina relief efforts for purchases over $15,000 up to $250,000.
		DAMIR is intended to identify the various data sources that the Acquisition community uses to manage acquisition programs and to provide a unified manner through which to present the information.
	www.acq.osd.mil (401 words)

	ACYF-CB-IM-05-02 Acquisition Checklist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A brief paragraph describing the acquisition activity should be included in the cover letter submitted with this request.
		Note 1: The acquisition document must be submitted to the appropriate federal Agency or Agencies if the acquisition is a sole source solicitation and the cost exceeds the thresholds established in the federal regulations.
		This form must be signed by either the appropriate state or territorial official authorized to submit acquisition documentation to the federal Department(s) or the state or territorial director of purchasing.
	www.acf.dhhs.gov /programs/cb/laws/im/im0502checklist.htm (672 words)

	SEI Areas of Work: Acquisition
		Acquiring software-intensive systems that work on their first promised date is a national imperative.
		The SEI helps acquisition organizations to improve their processes and minimize risks.
		Acquisition Module focuses on effective acquisition activities and practices that are implemented by first-level acquisition projects (e.g., System Project Office/Program Manager).
	www.sei.cmu.edu /acquisition/acquisition.html (306 words)

	Acquisition Solutions - Acquire the Advantage.
		Acquisition Solutions is a thought leader in Government acquisition and a partner in the implementation of solutions.
		The people of Acquisition Solutions are determined to provide you with the best advice and assistance we can to aid the national response to this unprecedented disaster.
		Acquisition Solutions' Statement on Performance-Based Contracting submitted to the Acquisition Advisory Panel that was authorized by Section 1423 of the Services Acquisition Reform Act of 2003.
	www.acqsolinc.com (246 words)

	Land Acquisition Plan-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		SOR land acquisition is an integral element of the District's overall strategic plan for resource management.
		The priority of SOR land acquisition needs, as established by the Plan, must be directly translated to the SOR acquisition priority.
		However, any qualified SOR project may be considered for acquisition during the life of this plan as conditions and circumstances warrant.
	www.sfwmd.gov /org/clm/lsd/4_acplan.html (524 words)

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