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  2. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of standard proofreader's marks used to indicate and correct problems in a text. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the ...

  3. Corrections - Wikipedia

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    A typical correctional institution is a prison. A correctional system, also known as a penal system, thus refers to a network of agencies that administer a jurisdiction 's prisons, and community-based programs like parole, and probation boards. [3] This system is part of the larger criminal justice system, which additionally includes police ...

  4. Proofreading - Wikipedia

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    Proofreading. Proofreading is an iterative process of comparing galley proofs against the original manuscripts or graphic artworks to identify transcription errors in the typesetting process. [1][2] In the past, proofreaders would place corrections or proofreading marks along the margins. [3] In modern publishing, material is generally provided ...

  5. Corrective and preventive action - Wikipedia

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    The corrective and preventive action is designed by a team that includes quality assurance personnel and personnel involved in the actual observation point of non-conformance. It must be systematically implemented and observed for its ability to eliminate further recurrence of such non-conformation. The Eight disciplines problem solving method ...

  6. Error correction code - Wikipedia

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    Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a class of highly efficient linear block codes made from many single parity check (SPC) codes. They can provide performance very close to the channel capacity (the theoretical maximum) using an iterated soft-decision decoding approach, at linear time complexity in terms of their block length.

  7. Correction (newspaper) - Wikipedia

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    The corrections affected 10 articles that had been published from 2000 to 2003, with the errors reported to the newspaper after the scandal broke. [ 4 ] One 2007 study suggested that "fewer than 2 percent of factually flawed articles" in daily newspapers are actually followed by a correction.

  8. List of optometric abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Near point of convergence or no previous correction NRC Normal retinal correspondence NV Near vision NWT Normal wearing time o symptoms Zero symptoms ϕ Horizontal orthophoria θ Vertical orthophoria ⊕ Horizontal and vertical orthophoria OC's Optical centres Occ. Occupation OD oculus dexter (right eye) OH Ocular history OMB Oculo motor balance

  9. Erratum - Wikipedia

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    Corrigendum is the gerundive form of the Latin compound verb corrigo -rexi -rectum (from the verb rego, "to make straight, rule", plus the preposition cum, "with"), "to correct", [3] and thus signifies [4] "(those things) which must be corrected" and in its single form Corrigendum it means "(that thing) which must be corrected".