access mechanism

[′ak‚ses ′mek·ə‚niz·əm]

(computer science)

The mechanism of positioning reading or writing heads onto the required tracks of a magnetic disk.

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Shareholders resident in the United Kingdom, receiving dividends on B Shares through the Dividend Access Mechanism, are entitled to a tax credit.

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC - Q1 2015 Euro and GBP Equivalent Dividend Payments

Zhen Ni, Qianmu Li, Tao and Li, Yong Qi in their paper on "A WSN Nodes Access Mechanism and Directed Diffusion in Emergency Circumstances" proposed a new routing framework for building Wireless Sensor Networks in emergency circumstances.

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This is not necessarily a bad design decision and implementing the keychain access mechanism in a different manner — for example, by asking the user to input their keychain password every time when an application needs to access keychain data — wouldn't have ultimately impacted the ability of attackers with root access to steal keychain data.

Tool allows Mac OS X hackers to extract keychain data

DFM officials said the exchange in coordination with the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) is working on a number of new initiatives including the plan to introduce short selling, market making, trading covered warrants, trading rights issues, stock swap agreements, Direct Market Access Mechanism, and data preparation analysis and publishing system.

DFM profit falls to Dh8m as stock trading plunges

The fold-down feature operates like an automobile via an easy access mechanism that eliminates the need for pulling pins to configure seats.

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We have agreed in principle to institutionalize consular access mechanism as millions of Pakistanis are living and working in Saudi Arabia.

Pakistan seeks Saudi support against drones

Microsoft BizTalk consolidates all message traffic and offers end users a consistent view of messages from a variety sources with a single access mechanism.

Cairo Amman Bank Deploys EastNets Solution to Link Core Modules to SWIFT

Longe et al (2009) introduced a D-CR access mechanism which can be use to double checked against masquerading but fails to tackle the problem of CAPTCHA relay attacker.

Mitigating CAPTCHA relay attacks using multiple challenge-response mechanism

It provides a unified mixed-signal design cockpit with very high capacity and a very fast database access mechanism.

MAGMA'S TITAN SUPPORTS IPL 1.0 FOR PROCESS DESIGN KIT

There must be an open, standard access mechanism to the remote service that can allow access from anywhere to anyone who is interested in the service

The cloud transition: what does it mean for you?

lt;p>The longer-term concern, however, is that the prevalent storage model will move from the client (PST) to a server-side storage model -- hence eliminating the need for PST management tools altogether -- and the default access mechanism moves to the browser, away from "fat" client access.

Gartner: 20% of e-mail to SaaS platform by end of 2012

It is expected that the dividends on the B shares will be paid via the Dividend Access Mechanism from UK-sourced income of the Royal Dutch Shell Group.