Law Dictionary and Glossary

Ritter's Crypto Glossary and Dictionary of Technical Cryptography

ly, there would seem to be no more reason that a secret cipher would have a higher probability ofexposure than a secret key. Of course, the more people who use the same cipher or key, the more likely it is thateven an unlikely thing will happen. But if every connection used a different cipher, in the same way that everyconnection currently uses a different key, exposing a cipher wou...

Dahl’s Law Dictionary/Diccionario Juridico

This book review evaluates Henry S. Dahl’s Spanish/English law dictionary. Dahl’s dictionary is so important for the conduct of transnational negotiations and the work of international lawyers that I strongly recommend its acquisition by all those operating in this field, as well as law libraries, embassies, and international divisions of major corporations. It acknowledges the impossibility of...

The relational database dictionary - a comprehensive glossary of relational terms and concepts, with illustrative examples

Glossary A glossary for social epidemiology

Why “social epidemiology”? Is not all epidemiology, after all, “social” epidemiology? In so far as people are simultaneously social and biological organisms, is any biological process ever expressed devoid of social context?—or any social process ever unmediated by the corporal reality of our profoundly generative and mortal bodies? 2 Yet, despite the seeming truism that social as well as biolo...

Glossary Glossary on meta-analysis

Bias, language: the systematic error introduced when the search of potential studies to be included in a meta-analysis is focused, in general, in one language (mainly English). Given that studies published in English are more widely read, it is possible that significant results of studies carried out in non-English countries are more published in English journals than in journals written in oth...