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Boot sector

Known as: Boot Record, Boot block, BS 
A boot sector or boot block is a region of a hard disk, floppy disk, optical disc, or other data storage device that contains machine code to be… 
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2015
2015
The persistence of the NWA effect during the low solar activity period 2007–2009
The ionospheric Nighttime Winter Anomaly (NWA) was first reported more than three decades ago based on total electron content… 
2011
2011
The Plebanski sectors of the EPRL vertex
Modern spin-foam models of four-dimensional gravity are based on a discrete version of the Spin(4) Plebanski formulation. Beyond… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Employment and Exchange Rates: The Role of Openness and Technology
Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic… 
2011
2011
Sq field characteristics at Phu Thuy, Vietnam, during solar cycle 23: comparisons with Sq field in other longitude sectors
Abstract. Quiet days variations in the Earth's magnetic field (the Sq current system) are compared and contrasted for the Asian… 
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
New statistical methods for detecting point alignments
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2008
Highly Cited
2008
Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) as drivers of multilevel knowledge dynamics
KIBS research to date has been conducted mainly by taking an innovation perspective where an explicit focus on knowledge… 
2006
2006
Productivity Consequences of Product Market Liberalization: Micro-evidence from Indian Manufacturing Sector Reforms ⁄
We use a new plant-level dataset to study the efiect of two reforms aimed at increasing product market competition in India… 
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2003
Highly Cited
2003
Wages, Productivity, and Worker Characteristics: A French Perspective
We investigate the relationship between wages, productivity, and workercharacteristics using a new exhaustive matched employer… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Geometric couplings and brane supersymmetry breaking
2000
2000
Sector cache design and performance
The first commercially available CPU cache memory used a sector design, by which the cache consisted of sectors (address tags… 
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