Readily achievable has the same meaning as in the ADA: easily accomplishable without much difficulty or expense.

It means "easily accomplishable and able to be carried out without much difficulty or expense."

Under Americans with Disability Act (ADA), the term "readily achievable" has a legal meaning directed at industry to measure whether or not a technology should be mandated by law in support of the goals of the ADA. The meaning given to it in section 301(9) of the Americans with Disability Act can be found in the records of the FCC.

In determining whether an action to make a public accommodation accessible would be "readily achievable," the overall size of the parent corporation or entity is only one factor to be considered. The ADA also permits consideration of the financial resources of the particular facility or facilities involved and the administrative or fiscal relationship of the facility or facilities to the parent entity.

UL stands for Underwriters Laboratories, which is an independent, not-for-profit organization that tests consumer and industrial products for safety and performance.

The emerging universe is identified with new disabling conditions; new causes for impairments; differential distribution within the population; increased frequency of some impairments, including those associated with aging; and new consequences of disability, particularly related to social-environmental factors, life-span issues, and projected demands for services and supports.

Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is an extensible common presentation service for management applications. MMC is included in the Windows© 2000 and XP operating systems.

Answer: CRES is something used to designate stainless steel. It stands for Corrosion RESistant steel. It does not necessarily mean that the steel is in fact stainless steel as there are other materials that are corrosion resistant but not stainless steel.

Authoring is the word used for taking the data and getting it into a format which is readable when you put the CD into the drive. In other words, there are programs and formats which the person who creates the CD uses to make the data actually usable. For example, if you want to be able to search for something on the CD, someone, the "author" has to include the software to perform the search as well as the data itself. Discturnkey does not provide this service.

Chronic infection with HBV means that you have a long-term HBV infection; your body did not get rid of the virus when you were first infected with HBV. The risk of progressing to chronic infection is age dependent (i.e., 2% to 6% of people over aged 5 years; 30% of children aged 1-5 years; and up to 90% of infants). People with chronic infection can infect others and are at increased risk of serious liver disease including cirrhosis and liver cancer. In the United States, an estimated 1.

The term Giclée (jhee-clay) is French and means "to spray ink". A Giclée print is a scanned image printed on a high resolution inkjet printer. Giclée prints, also known as Iris prints are advantageous to artists who find it not feasible to mass produce their work, but want to reproduce their art as required. Artwork can be reproduced to almost any size and on various media, giving the artist and publisher the ability to customize prints.

The term "QLink" is derived from the concept of a "quantum link." At the deepest level, the quantum level, your bioenergy and the environment’s natural energy (from the earth and sun) become more solidly and harmoniously linked by the QLink. The Resonating Cell is the size of a watch battery, and is made of a unique combination of crystalline elements. In a gentle and subtle mode, it vibrates when placed on or near a person’s body.

A Trustee is a person who is (also) usually your Executor. A trustee is a person who holds your property on behalf of others while your estate is being administered. Frequently, Trustees are appointed to hold your estate for the benefit of infants until they reach the age of eighteen.

The term 'Broadband' is commonly used to describe internet connections which are capable of speeds of 256kbps and above. ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) is the most common type of Broadband connection, and is the method AlphaCall use to provide your broadband service.

Our ad server is shown across many traffic networks. Each network represents a unique "hit" but many people on that network may actually see your site and would be counted as a Hit. You should monitor your website and then pause your campaign in the event that your server is down or you have exceeded your bandwidth. We monitor all campaigns daily and any website that does not contain any content (server down, can't find server, bandwith exceeded, etc.) is removed from the Adserver.

A measure of the rate of change in an option's theoretical value for a one-unit change in the price of the underlying stock. For example if the delta of a call option is 50 (or .50 to be more precise), for each one point move in the stock, the anticipated movement of the option would be a half point - or 50%.

The formal definition of arrears is "the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations". Simply put, your case has arrears if the obligor is delinquent in his/her child support payments.

The term "SCSI" (pronounced "scuzzy") Small Computer System Interface, the technology interface is mostly used to connect mass-storage devices such as hard disk drives, tape devices and CD-drives but is also often used to connect scanners and other optical devices. SCSI devices can be internal or external.

In May 1998, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an injunction prohibiting the State from classifying any sex offender who committed his or her crime prior to January 21, 1996 to a risk level higher than a Level 1 for purposes of community notification, unless the offender has been reclassified by a court in accordance with the due process requirements as set out in the Court's opinion.

Vesting simply refers to who "owns" the contributions in a pension account. In some company pension plans, an employee must work for the employer for a certain number of years before the employee owns the contributions. In the Church of God Pension Plan, the employee is always 100% vested and, in all cases, owns the funds in his/her account for future retirement benefits.

This is a legal term which means that a case is "on hold" either because of settlement talks or because it is affected by an appeal in one of the test cases. Because of the large number of claims relating to pension access for part time workers received by the Tribunal, it became necessary to devise a method to ensure that points common to every pension case were heard centrally.

The term "Verified" when used in a UL marking means that the product has been tested and complies with a specific requirement(s). These requirements may be safety or performance related. In the UL system the words "Classified" and "Verified" mean the same thing. For a complete explanation of "Listed", "Classified" and "Recognized" read up on the UL Mark.

The term "Beta" refers to the volatility of a given investment vehicle. For instance, if a security moves up 10% when the S&P 500 Index moves up 10% and moves down 10% when the S&P 500 Index moves down 10% then the security is said to have a Beta of 1.0. But, if the security moves up 20% when the S&P 500 Index moves up only 10% and moves down 20% when the S&P 500 index moves down only 10% then the security is said to have a Beta of 2.0.

The term "downloading" not only refers to any information that you are saving to your PC from the Internet, it also refers to any information that is received by your modem. For you to be able to view information on your screen, the information is actually downloaded to your modem, which in turn is displayed on your screen. Even though this may not be saved to your PC, "downloading" has still occurred.

DOT screens may only be performed at a SAMHSA-certified laboratory. These labs follow strict quality assurance and control protocol to monitor each step of the testing process. It is AHSI's practice to utilize these labs for non-DOT testing also.

The owner reserves the right to accept or reject the high bid within seven business days following the close of the auction.

The term "convertible" refers to a hood that can be installed in different ducting modes. Typically a "convertible hood" can accommodate: 7" round ducted, 3 ¼" X 10" vertical or horizontal ducted , and non-ducted applications available at installation.

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