* CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, an international standard for the exchange of cultural heritage information

Recent advances in information technology and the rise of electronic encyclopaedias such as Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, Encarta and Wikipedia have reduced the demand for print encyclopaedias.

Reference works are usually referred to for particular pieces of information, rather than read beginning to end.

Reference counts are also useful information to use as input to other runtime optimizations.

In telecommunication, a n-entity is an active element in the n-th layer of the Open Systems Interconnection -- Reference Model ( OSI-RM ) that ( a ) interacts directly with elements, i. e., entities, of the layer immediately above or below the n-th layer, ( b ) is defined by a unique set of rules, i. e., syntax, and information formats, including data and control formats, and ( c ) performs a defined set of functions.

Hill's heirs established the James J. Hill Reference Library in St. Paul, which is considered by the Small Business Administration the premier source for publicly accessible practical business information in the United States, and many SBA programs rely on the Hill Library's HillSearch service to provide business information resources to small businesses nationwide.

For additional information about Cisco IOS Packaging see White Paper: Cisco IOS Reference Guide

Reference class forecasting was developed by Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg to eliminate or reduce bias in forecasting by focusing on distributional information about past, similar outcomes to that being forecasted.

* Reference Service-the personal assistance provided to the library users in finding information.

ARS has more than 150 librarians and other information specialists who work at two NAL locations — the Abraham Lincoln Building in Beltsville, Maryland ; and the DC Reference Center in Washington, D. C. NAL provides reference and information services, document delivery, interlibrary loan and interlibrary borrowing services to a variety of audiences.

Attitude and Heading Reference Systems ( AHRS ) are able to provide three-axis information that can be shared with multiple devices in the aircraft, such as " glass cockpit " primary flight displays ( PFDs ).

:" Fleet Marine Force Reference Publication ( FMFRP ) 12-80, Kill or Get Killed, is published to ensure the retention and dissemination of useful information which is not intended to become doctrine or to be published in Fleet Marine Force manuals ""

The first mutually published standard is ISO / HL7 21731: 2006 Health informatics — HL7 version 3 — Reference information model — Release 1.

The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide to the Future is an encyclopedia of all the in-universe information from the Star Trek live-action television series and films.

Reference architecture is the basis from which information model, especially product and manufacturing models.

The field of library science has seen significant adoption of the term and librarians have been described by Bonnie Nardi as a " keystone species in information ecology ", and references to information ecology range as far afield as the Collaborative Digital Reference Service of the Library of Congress, to children's library database administrator in Russia.

Nardi's book inspired the title of a UK conference Information Ecologies: the impact of new information ' species hosted, inter alia, by the UK Office of Library Networking, now known by its acronym UKOLN, and led to a keynote address by Nardi at a 1998 Library of Congress Institute on Reference Service in a Digital Age.

* Endpoint Reference, an XML structure encapsulating information useful for addressing a message to a Web service

* Reference manuals: for containing detailed information on processes and procedures.

The Anchor Bible Reference Library is an open-ended series composed of more than thirty separate volumes with information about anthropology, archaeology, ecology, geography, history, languages, literature, philosophy, religions, and theology, among others.

The Physicians ' Desk Reference ( PDR ) is a commercially published compilation of manufacturers ' prescribing information ( package insert ) on prescription drugs, updated annually.

The mens rea for assault is simply " evil intent ", although this has been held to mean no more than that assault " cannot be committed accidentally or recklessly or negligently " as upheld in Lord Advocate's Reference No 2 of 1992 where it was found that a " hold-up " in a shop justified as a joke would still constitute an offence.

* Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements ( EU )

Initially designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.

A point of reference for clinical engineers would be the catalogue published by the American Society for Hospital Engineering in the Hospital Engineering Reference Series called Maintenance Management for Medical Equipment.

In one case, the Provincial Judges Reference ( 1997 ), it was found a law can be held invalid for contradicting unwritten principles, in this case judicial independence.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, the Dietary Reference Intake for protein is 0. 8 grams per kilogram of body weight for adults.

In 2007 Esperanto was the 32nd language that adhered to the " Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment ( CEFR )".

* National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature World's largest library for ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research

* All about electrochemistry ( online Reference Text for General Chemistry )

* " Eugenics " – National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Scope Note 28, features overview of eugenics history and annotated bibliography of historical literature

Reference books had extensive plots of frequency response, phase response, group delay, and impulse response for various types of filters, of various orders.

), The Earth's Rotation and Reference Frames for Geodesy and Geophysics, IAU Symposia # 128 ( 1988 ), pp 413 – 418 .</ cite >

* Japanese Reference Materials for Studying Japanese Cinema at Yale University by Aaron Gerow

The FORTRAN system was designed for a more complex machine than the 650, and consequently some of the 32 statements found in the FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual are not acceptable to the FOR TRANSIT system.

* MapRef. org: The Collection of Map Projections and Reference Systems for Europe

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The Reference Committee on Hygiene, Public Health, and Industrial Health approved the report and commended the Council on Mental Health for its work.

SCORM stands for Shareable Content Object Reference Model.

The specification uses the following existing file formats with the addition of specific metadata tags: JPEG DCT ( where DCT refers to the 1974 publication by N. Ahmed, T. Natarajan and K. R. Rao, Reference 1 in discrete cosine transform ) for compressed image files, TIFF Rev.

The image was made to resolve a dispute at Wikipedia: Reference desk.

An in-progress image ( for showing at the Reference Desk ) showing the various problems I need to solve in constructing a perfectly equilateral triangle.