Sponsorship
* also means schooling for children of families who have a new appreciation for education.
* are programs or research that are sponsored by a gift in kind or a gift of money.
* can mean sharing knowledge, experience, and dreams.
* common form of business support for the arts
  - way for athletes to cover training expenses
* form of long term advertising.
* is an insidious form of advertising
  - opportunity to realize new rewards in a personal relationship
  - one branch of sports marketing
  - something that companies do in order to obtain commercial benefit
  - sometimes a one way relationship for the business entity
* is the fastest growing form of marketing communications
  - fastest-growing form of marketing communication
* is the financial or material support of a programme or feature
  - support, advertising and promotion of public events or organizations
  - lifeblood of sport marketing
  - world's fastest-growing form of marketing
  - worst possible mechanism for distributing resources in any culture or society

Supernovas
* Some supernovas can be bright enough to see with the naked eye during the day
  - leave behind a neutron star, pulsar, or maybe a black hole
* glow for months after they explode.

Simple excision
* cuts the cancer from the skin along with some of the healthy tissue around it.
* is similar to excision biopsy.

Systematic theology
* divides the chronology of the Bible into different ages or dispensations.
* runs into the problem of definition.

Sensitization
* can develop over time
  - happen, for example, if someone receives the wrong kind of blood in transfusion
  - take from several days to several years to develop
* enables the nociceptors to more easily fire an action potential.
* increases the rewarding properties of addictive drugs.
* is achieved by dyes in the emulsion layers
  - associated with humid environments
  - caused by both direct and airborne contact with the proteins
  - clearly a serious and material impairment of health
  - different from irritation and toxicity
  - immunisation
  - processes
  - sensitivity
* occurs during the mixing of the powders
  - production and use of milk powder in various food industries
  - through contact with latex proteins

Scalability
* allows worlds of arbitrary size to be created.
* characterizes the ability of a system to grow to meet demand.
* frequently-claimed attribute of parallel systems.
* is achieved by encompassing capacity, manageability, and cost-effectiveness
  - all about reliability and performance
* is also a function of how efficiently the client uses the database server
  - an issue in terms of setup and management of accounts
  - important as they grow
* is an important factor when designing web applications
  - goal of parallel processing
  - growth without additional complexity
  - linked to the architecture of the infrastructure itself
  - measured in terms of both the number of processing elements and the data size
  - particularly important for systems with more than a dozen processors
  - quality
* is the ability to handle the new material constantly appearing on the Internet
  - key to the value and power of vectors
  - only way to meet ever-changing market demands
  - result of explicit meta-adapation when boundaries of applicability are crossed
* only refers to linear scaling.
* protects investment and facilitates growth.
* refers to how speedup changes as the problem size and number of processors increases.
* refers to the capacity to start small and then grow big without starting over
  - increase in the complexity of communication as more nodes are added
  - way a system expands to serve more customers
* specifies how a metric varies with load.