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  2. Management buyout - Wikipedia

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    A management buyout (MBO) is a form of acquisition in which a company's existing managers acquire a large part, or all, of the company, whether from a parent company or individual.

  3. Joint Personnel Administration - Wikipedia

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    Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) is the intranet-based personnel administration system used by the British Armed Forces from April 2006 onwards, replacing the separate payment and administration teams from each of the three Services.

  4. Single sign-on - Wikipedia

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    A user wielding a user agent (usually a web browser) is called the subject in SAML-based single sign-on. The user requests a web resource protected by a SAML service provider. The service provider, wishing to know the identity of the user, issues an authentication request to a SAML identity provider through the user agent.

  5. Management by objectives - Wikipedia

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    Management by objectives (MBO), also known as management by planning (MBP), was first popularized by Peter Drucker in his 1954 book The Practice of Management. [1] Management by objectives is the process of defining specific objectives within an organization that management can convey to organization members, then deciding how to achieve each objective in sequence.

  6. Record locking - Wikipedia

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    To allow several users to edit a database table at the same time and also prevent inconsistencies created by unrestricted access, a single record can be locked when retrieved for editing or updating. Anyone attempting to retrieve the same record for editing is denied write access because of the lock (although, depending on the implementation ...

  7. File locking - Wikipedia

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    File locking is a mechanism that restricts access to a computer file, or to a region of a file, by allowing only one user or process to modify or delete it at a specific time, and preventing reading of the file while it's being modified or deleted.

  8. User profiles in Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

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    NTUSER.DAT is held open for writing (i.e., "locked") whenever the user is logged on. My Documents This folder is intended to contain the user's work, and in Windows-aware programs, dialog boxes will typically prompt the user to store documents here. "My Documents" as a shortcut also appears on the desktop, and in My Computer.

  9. Mbox - Wikipedia

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    Mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of email messages. It was first implemented in Fifth Edition Unix.. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file.