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  2. Segmentation fault - Wikipedia

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    Segmentation faults can also occur independently of page faults: illegal access to a valid page is a segmentation fault, but not an invalid page fault, and segmentation faults can occur in the middle of a page (hence no page fault), for example in a buffer overflow that stays within a page but illegally overwrites memory.

  3. Missing data - Wikipedia

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    Missingness occurs when participants drop out before the test ends and one or more measurements are missing. Data often are missing in research in economics , sociology , and political science because governments or private entities choose not to, or fail to, report critical statistics, [ 1 ] or because the information is not available.

  4. Page fault - Wikipedia

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    The operating system delays loading parts of the program from disk until the program attempts to use it and the page fault is generated. If the page is not loaded in memory at the time of the fault, then it is called a major or hard page fault. The page fault handler in the OS needs to find a free location: either a free page in memory, or a ...

  5. Medical error - Wikipedia

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    Variations in healthcare provider training & experience [45] [52] and failure to acknowledge the prevalence and seriousness of medical errors also increase the risk. [53] [54] The so-called July effect occurs when new residents arrive at teaching hospitals, causing an increase in medication errors according to a study of data from 1979 to 2006 ...

  6. Planning fallacy - Wikipedia

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    The segmentation effect is defined as the time allocated for a task being significantly smaller than the sum of the time allocated to individual smaller sub-tasks of that task. In a study performed by Forsyth in 2008, this effect was tested to determine if it could be used to reduce the planning fallacy.

  7. Memory protection - Wikipedia

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    Protection may encompass all accesses to a specified area of memory, write accesses, or attempts to execute the contents of the area. An attempt to access unauthorized [a] memory results in a hardware fault, e.g., a segmentation fault, storage violation exception, generally causing abnormal termination of the offending process.

  8. Governance, risk management, and compliance - Wikipedia

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    Although interpreted differently in various organizations, GRC typically encompasses activities such as corporate governance, enterprise risk management (ERM) and corporate compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Organizations reach a size where coordinated control over GRC activities is required to operate effectively.

  9. Failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis - Wikipedia

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    According to an FAA research report for commercial space transportation, Failure Modes, effects, and Criticality Analysis is an excellent hazard analysis and risk assessment tool, but it suffers from other limitations. This alternative does not consider combined failures or typically include software and human interaction considerations.