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71self-determination — self determined, adj. self determining, adj. /self di terr meuh nay sheuhn, self /, n. 1. determination by oneself or itself, without outside influence. 2. freedom to live as one chooses, or to act or decide without consulting another or others.… …
72Self-funded health care — describes a self insurance arrangement whereby an employer provides health or disability benefits to employees by assuming the direct risk for payment of their claims for benefits. The terms of eligibility and coverage are set forth in a plan… …
73Self-pulsation — takes place at the beginning of laser action.As the pump is switched on, the gainin the active medium rises and exceeds the steady state value. The number of photons in the cavity increases, depleting the gain below the steady state value, and so …
74Self-service password reset — is defined as any process or technology that allows users who have either forgotten their password or triggered an intruder lockout to authenticate with an alternate factor, and repair their own problem, without calling the help desk. It is a… …
75Self-management (computer science) — Self Management is the process by which computer systems shall manage their own operation without human intervention. Self Management technologies are expected to pervade the next generation of network management systems.The growing complexity of …
76Self-fashioning — Self fashioning, a term introduced by Stephen Greenblatt ( Renaissance Self Fashioning , 1980), is used to describe the process of constructing one s identity and public persona according to a set of socially acceptable standards. Greenblatt… …
77Self-healing plastic — is a man made material, capable of repairing its own surface.DevelopmentAeronautical engineering professors Scott White and Philippe H. Geubelle; applied mechanics professor Nancy R. Sottos; and chemistry and materials science professor Jeffrey S …
78self-deprecating — adjective showing that you think you are not very good or important: a self deprecating remark ╾ ,self depre cation noun uncount …
79self-esteem — self es teem noun uncount * the feeling that you are as important as other people and that you deserve to be treated well: low/high self esteem (=not much/a lot of this feeling): patients suffering from depression and low self esteem …
80Self-phase modulation — (SPM) is a nonlinear optical effect of light matter interaction.An ultrashort pulse of light, when travelling in a medium, will induce a varying refractive index of the medium due to the optical Kerr effect. This variation in refractive index… …
