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Biometric authentication methods use biometric characteristics or traits to verify users’ claimed identities when users access endpoint devices, networks, networked applications or Web applications. Across a wide range of use cases, any biometric authentication method may be used in one-to-one comparison mode (when the user enters a user ID), or one-to-many search mode (when the user simply presents his or her biometric characteristic, with no explicit claim of identity, and the system determines his or her user ID from a range of candidates).
Industry:Technology
Biometric ATMs are self-service cash machines that use a biometric measure to identify customers and allow them to withdraw cash. The biometric check may be the only customer identifier used, or it may be used in conjunction with another format, such as a payment card, a mobile device or an additional security credential, such as a PIN. The biometric measures used will generally include palm or finger vein print biometrics, although they may also include other functionalities such as iris recognition.
Industry:Technology
Biomass is a renewable energy source derived from living (or recently living) organisms, including dedicated energy crops and trees, agricultural food and feed crops, agricultural crop waste and residue, wood waste and residue, aquatic plants, animal waste, municipal waste and other waste materials. It is commonly used as a fuel in microthermal power plants.
Industry:Technology
Bioinformatics and chemoinformatics solutions support R&D groups with applications, tools and procedures for analyzing and expanding the use of biological, chemical, medical, behavioral and health data. These systems can acquire, store, organize, archive, analyze and visualize data. They represent a very diverse field, with bioinformatics having a specialty focus for different biological field disciplines (such as next-generation sequencing, functional genomics), and with chemoinformatics having a focus on small molecules and drug discovery.
Industry:Technology
Bioinformatics solutions and service providers support research, development, the application of computational tools, and approaches for expanding the use of biological, medical, behavioral and health data. These systems are able to acquire, store, organize, archive, analyze and visualize data, and are integral to R&D drug development and therapy programs. They represent a very diverse field with specialty focus for different biological field disciplines (such as next-generation sequencing, functional genomics, molecular biology, computational biology and crystallography).
Industry:Technology
Biochips relate to a number of technologies that involve the merging of semiconductor and biological sciences. The most common form is based on an array of molecular sensors arranged on a small surface _ typically referred to as “lab-on-chip.” The underlying mechanism utilizes microfluidic micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. These devices are used to analyze biological elements such as DNA, ribonucleic acid and proteins, in addition to certain chemicals.
Industry:Technology
A binary table (byte) is a group of eight bits handled as a logical unit. In text files, a byte is equivalent to a single character such as a letter, number or punctuation mark.
Industry:Technology
Binary Synchronous Communications (BSC) is a half-duplex, character-oriented data communications protocol originated by IBM in 1964. It includes control characters and procedures for controlling the establishment of a valid connection and the transfer of data. Also called Bisync. Although still in use, it has largely been replaced by IBM’s more efficient protocol, Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC), which is under Systems Network Architecture (SNA).
Industry:Technology
Binary runtime environment for wireless (BREW) is an application ecosystem designed by Qualcomm to support application development, provisioning, marketing and billing of handheld wireless data applications, predominantly for consumers.
Industry:Technology
Binary large object (BLOB) is a generic term used to describe the handling and storage of long strings of data by database management systems. A BLOB is a category of data, characterized by large size (including media formats such as audio and video), which can place extreme demands on storage systems and network bandwidth.
Industry:Technology
