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flex

Brit a flexible insulated electric cable, used esp to connect appliances to mains
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flex

[fleks]
(science and technology)
To bend.
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FLEX

(language)
1. Faster LEX.

2. A real-time language for dynamic environments.

["FLEX: Towards Flexible Real-Time Programs", K. Lin et al, Computer Langs 16(1):65-79, Jan 1991].

3. An early object-oriented language developed for the FLEX machine by Alan Kay in about 1967. The FLEX language was a simplification of Simula and a predecessor of Smalltalk.

Flex

(software, hardware)
A system developed by Ian Currie (Iain?) at the (then) Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at Malvern in the late 1970s. The hardware was custom and microprogrammable, with an operating system, (modular) compiler, editor, garbage collector and filing system all written in Algol-68. Flex was also re-implemented on the Perq(?).

[I. F. Currie and others, "Flex Firmware", Technical Report, RSRE, Number 81009, 1981].

[I. F. Currie, "In Praise of Procedures", RSRE, 1982].
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Flex

A development system for Flash-based applications from Adobe. Introduced in 2004 as a J2EE application, Flex compiles ActionScript programming code and XML-based user interface descriptions (MXML) into binary Flash files (.SWF files). It also includes a variety of user interface functions for creating rich client applications. See Adobe AIR, Flash, MXML and ActionScript.
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But flexitime can give a business, as well as its employees, greater flexibility to meet the needs of customers over extended hours, to focus on essential project work before and after the normal finishing time, and to have a more committed and happier team," he said.
But there is a way to avoid the crowds without having to quit your job or go part-time: it is called flexitime. Pioneered in the United States in the 1970s, the practice of giving employees greater freedom in choosing their own hours has become an increasingly popular option for workers in the United States, United Kingdom, Nordic countries and Japan in particular, but has even found its way into local office culture.
State facilities that don't have an electronic clocking in and out system cannot monitor the flexitime arrangement, and so are also having all staff come in at 7.30am, the public administration department said.
There will be no more enhanced payments for working outside normal office hours and staff at the Herbert will no longer have the benefit of Flexitime.
The ticketing system is particularly beneficial to part-time and flexitime commuters who use the train intermittently or for any occasional train travel needs such as attending sporting events.
(Discussing the implications of CWs, flexitime, and part-time work for women.)
But this rise is at the expense of overtime rates and allowances that are currently paid, and officers would also be expected to work more flexitime.
The survey also illustrated a real desire by managers to implement flexitime, or at least, flexible methods of working.
Employment minister Alan Johnson has chosen today to announce that parents with kids under six will get the legal right to work part or flexitime. That will benefit 2.1 million dads and another 1.5 million working mums when the new scheme becomes law in April.
The initiative from the Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI) involves, in the first instance, a study on the possible introduction of staggered work hours and "flexitime" to ease traffic congestion, arising from traffic growth from 54,670 vehicles in 1993 to 90,000 today.
Nearly a third of business services (30 per cent) and manufacturing firms (29 per cent) offer flexitime to staff, compared to just 14 per cent of retail or distribution companies.
In the short time needed for the anesthesia to work, I took my impression for the temporary using Flexitime Monophase impression material (Heraeus Kulzer) in a rimless quadrant tray.
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