Word: protocol
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...phones continue to ring, the staff—five to seven dispatchers depending on the time of day—echoes the response throughout the room. Dispatchers then call firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to the scene, following the hundreds of detailed pages of protocol they must memorize for each situation...
...records from being stolen," says Appenzeller. But, he says, "we make it much harder for them to access private information digitally." E-mail and data protection is just a start. With growing concern about identity theft, Voltage is developing new methods for securing instant messaging and voice-over-Internet-protocol telephone calls...
...sobering fact is that the procedure just doesn't work very well; in fact, almost 95% of cardiac-arrest victims die before they reach a medical center. In light of a stat like that one, the American Heart Association (AHA) has decided to change the commonly practiced CPR protocol and, it hopes, save a few more lives in the bargain...
Unlike students like Gellis and Bolotin, students whom the school requires to withdraw are not allowed to remain “in good standing” with the college, or do what they please with their year off. They must follow Ad Board protocol and hold down a full-time job for six months. After that, they are allowed to petition the Ad Board for re-entrance...
...flow of the ocean.” Yet it must be possible to control the Internet in some way. Currently an American company known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) handles many aspects of Internet governance. It controls the assignment of domain names, Internet Protocol numbers, and country specific extensions (like .ca for Canada and .de for Germany). ICANN was founded in 1998 by the Clinton administration and operates, at least in theory, free from the interference of the U.S. government, although ICANN does have a “memorandum of understanding” with...