Glossary

An assembly of equipment, such as storage containers, pressure regulators, safety devices, vaporizers, manifolds, and interconnecting piping that has a storage capacity of more than 12,000 cubic feet (340 m³) of oxygen at normal temperature and pressure, connected in service or ready for service, or more than 25,000 cubic feet (708 m³) of oxygen, including unconnected reserve on hand at the site.

Any product that has completed all processing stages up to, but not including, final packaging.

Blood Urea Nitrogen

Excessive melt-through or a hole through the root bead of a weld.

Excess material protruding from the edge typically resulting from operations such as cutting or facing.

A common pathway along which data and control signals travel between different hardware devices within a computer system.1. When bus architecture is used in a computer, the CPU, memory and peripheral equipment are interconnected through the bus. The bus is often divided into two channels, a control channel to select where data is located (address bus), and the other to transfer the data (data bus or I/O bus)Common buses are:ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) the original IBM PC 16 bit AT busEISA (Extended Industry Standard Architecture) the IBM PC 32 bit XT bus (which provides for bus mastering)MCA (MicroChannel Architecture0 an IBM 32 bit busMultibus I & II (advanced, 16 & 32 bit respectively, bus architecture by Intel used in industrial, military and aerospace applications)NuBus, a 32-bit bus architecture originally developed at MIT (A version is used in the Apple Macintosh computer)STD bus, a bus architecture used in medical and industrial equipment due to its small size and rugged design (Originally 8 bits, with extensions to 16 and 32 bits)TURBO Channel, a DEC 32 bit data bus with peak transfer rates of 100 MB/secondVMEbus (Versa Module Eurocard Bus), a 32 bit bus from Motorola, et.al., used in industrial, commercial and military applications worldwide (VME64 is an expanded version that provides 64 bit data transfer and addressing)2. When bus architecture is used in a network, all terminals and computers are connected to a common channel that is made of twisted wire pairs, coaxial cable, or optical fibers. Ethernet is a common LAN architecture using a bus topology.

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An outside person/entity that performs a service on behalf of the health care provider (including a researcher) or the health care institution during which individually identifiable health information is created, used, or disclosed. Certain exceptions apply. Anyone within the Partners affiliated covered entity is not a business associate. Outside researchers and coordinating or statistical centers that participate in conducting the research or third parties that sponsor research are generally not business associates. Third parties that perform a function on the hospitals' or researchers' behalf that is not itself research may be business associates if they receive protected health information. For example, web hosting or data storage companies will be business associates if they receive protected health information. In addition, third parties that handle billing for a research study, or recruitment and screening, will also be business

Purpose for the project and benefit to the owner.

A document prepared to summarize the organization’s business continuity activities. BCPs can address single or multiple systems.

(ISO) A managed process for developing and maintaining cross-organizational plans to counteract interruptions to business activities.

The act of planning for the continued operation of the laboratory in the event of a known adverse event occurring by identifying in advance additional redundant capacity in case a critical system fails.

A joint between two members lying approximately in the same plane.

Balance and Vibration

Bacterial Vaccine and Allergenic Products Branch (CBER)

British Veterinary Codex

British Veterinary Codex

Bovine Viral Diarrhea

Viral contaminant found in bovine sera. Able to be filtered out using 0.1 µm nylon filters.

Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus

Body Weight

Biological Warfare Agent

Basic Workload Measurement

Biologics Workload Management