International portability of social security rights allows international migrants, who have contributed to a social security scheme for some time in a particular country, to maintain acquired benefits or benefits in the process of being acquired when moving to another country.

International portability of social security benefits is therefore understood as the migrant's ability to preserve, maintain, and transfer acquired social security rights independent of nationality and country of residence.

International portability of social security benefits is achieved through bilateral or multilateral social security agreements between States.

An advantage of this percussion arrangement is its portability, contributing to the plena's spontaineous appearance at any social gathering.

SyQuest marketed their products as able to give personal computer users " endless " hard drive space for data-intensive applications like desktop publishing, Internet information management, pre-press, multimedia, audio, video, digital photography, fast backup, data exchange and archiving, along with confidential data security and easy portability for the road.

Inferno was based on the experience gained with Plan 9 from Bell Labs, and the further research of Bell Labs into operating systems, languages, on-the-fly compilers, graphics, security, networking and portability.

There are also many different ways in which these devices can be arranged to provide geographic redundancy, data security, and portability.

In the US, there are standards for portability defined by the FCC and the LNPA, as well as NANPA and the ATIS which are agreed upon by all member providers to help make LNP as cost-efficient and expedient as possible while still retaining a healthy level security for all providers and in respect of the highest level of customer service.

The product is designed for portability, modularity, and security.

However, the increased portability and accessibility of electronic medical records may also increase the ease with which they can be accessed and stolen by unauthorized persons or unscrupulous users versus paper medical records as acknowledged by the increased security requirements for electronic medical records included in the Health Information and Accessibility Act and by recent large-scale breaches in confidential records reported by EMR users.

Thus like other security equipment, bicycle locks must compromise between security, portability and cost.

The main design goals of the Java Card technology are portability and security.

Backers cite portability, exercise, and environmental friendliness as some of the benefits of skateboarding as an alternative to automobiles.

Though more expensive than a standard permanent outdoor latrine, portable toilets have several significant benefits mostly related to their portability as they are self-contained they can be place almost anywhere.

Having such codecs available within the standard libavcodec framework gives a number of benefits over using the original codecs, most notably increased portability, and in some cases also better performance, since libavcodec contains a standard library of highly optimized implementations of common building blocks, such as DCT and color space conversion.

Others compile to interpreted bytecode, which is less efficient than native code, but eases binary-code portability.

While this certificate has limited portability – to other corporations, for example – it is the most simple to develop.

Forth is still used today in many embedded systems ( small computerized devices ) because of its portability, efficient memory use, short development time, and fast execution speed.

The Graphics Interchange Format ( GIF ; or ) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.

Without the source code for a particular piece of software, portability is generally computationally expensive.

Call routing can now be done based on the area code, central office code and even the first two digits of the line number, although routing based on digits past the central office code is usually limited to cases of competitive local exchange carriers and number portability.

The portability of defined contribution pensions is legally no different from the portability of defined benefit plans.

This improved the portability of the instrument as well as solving the problem of micing the bars evenly that is inherent in all the tuned mallet instruments.

The emulator is written almost entirely in C. Its developers ruled out using machine-specific assembly code to avoid problems with portability even though such code could significantly improve performance.

However, the portability of interpreted source code is dependent on the target machine actually having a suitable interpreter.

Number portability is a service that allows a subscriber to select a new telephone carrier without requiring a new number to be issued.

This rating is subject to some debate given the complexity of call routing created by number portability.

However, for the sake of software portability and readability, it is often best to write programs using the division operation and trust in the compiler to perform this replacement.

An example of this is the Firefox web browser, which uses abstraction to build some of the lower-level components, separate source subtrees for implementing platform-specific features ( like the GUI ), and the implementation of more than one scripting language to help facilitate ease of portability.

The price for this portability is that the standards are not as mobile or as adjustable as those of a monorail design ; the rear standard, in particular, may be fixed and offer no movement.

It is also text-based instead of binary for the sake of portability.

To ensure portability across different architectures with different byte orderings, the information in the header record is encoded in ASCII.

They belonged to hunter-gatherers and the need for portability probably limited their size ; as later bowls increase in size, this is taken to be a sign of an increasingly settled pattern of living.

* Feature ( software design ) is an intentional distinguishing characteristic of a software item ( in performance, portability, or-especially-functionality )

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( CMS ), previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration ( HCFA ), is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services ( DHHS ) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program ( SCHIP ), and health insurance portability standards.

The message passing paradigms is attractive because of a wide portability and can be used in communication for distributed-memory and shared-memory multiprocessors, networks of workstations, and a combination of these elements.

Brush electroplating has several advantages over tank plating, including portability, ability to plate items that for some reason cannot be tank plated ( one application was the plating of portions of very large decorative support columns in a building restoration ), low or no masking requirements, and comparatively low plating solution volume requirements.

Local number portability ( LNP ) for fixed lines, and full mobile number portability ( FMNP ) for mobile phone lines, refers to the ability of a " customer of record " of an existing fixed-line or mobile telephone number assigned by a local exchange carrier ( LEC ) to reassign the number to another carrier (" Service Provider Portability "), move it to another location (" Geographic Portability "), or change the type of service (" Service Portability ").

Aside of portability and ability to run on modern operating systems, there are also number of enhancements over original games, such as

Thermal printers are still commonly used in seafloor exploration and engineering geology due to their portability, speed, and ability to create continuous reels or sheets.

The ability to fly both low and slow safely, the ' open ' feel, the minimal equipment and maintenance costs, and the portability are claimed to be this type of flying's greatest merits.