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Concordance
* are alphabetical listings of most of the words used in the Bible
  - among the earliest analytical tools that took words out of context
  - handy tools that list of all the words in a book or group of books
  - lines of text
* full text document database program with limited transcript-processing features.
* is an index
* method used to show the context of each term that is searched for.
* simply means when one twin developed schizophrenia, the other did, too.

Electronic index
* Many electronic indexes have a searchable field relating to document type.
* allow searching by keywords in addition to author, title, subject, etc.
* cover anywhere from one year to twenty years.
* provide only citations to books or articles.

Periodical index
* Many periodical indexes refer to articles that report the results of public opinion surveys.
* Some periodical indexes are books, while others are on computers.
* are also usually specific to a field such as psychology or medicine
  - lists of articles found in periodicals
* provide access to the content of individual periodical titles.

Site index
* is used in a variety of ways, such as in formulating silviculture prescriptions.
* measure of the productivity of forest soils for a particular species
  - relative productive capability of a forest area

Subject index
* Subject indices classify and catalogue resources by content.
* work like a hierarchy or tree using subject headings.

Web index
* are most useful to find Web pages on a specific topic
  - online catalogues that organize Web pages into categories
  - the way to go, because they search all the contents of a website
* attempt to organize the vast resources of the Internet by subject, category, etc.
* offer a categorized approach to web sites.
* use hypertext to present their lists of resources, which facilitates browsing.

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Inventory
* Inventories are a kind of capital good
  - also important to manufacturing companies
  - documents
  - listings of all personal property on hand at the time of decedent's death
  - merely stock of goods held for use in production, or for sale or resale
  - products held for resale
  - questionnaires with many items
  - registers
  - stocks of goods in progress
  - build when no one is buying products, which decreases profits and thus stock prices
  - serve to stabilize prices between growing seasons
* crucial part of every organization.
* generally means goods, wares, and merchandise held by a business for sale.
* includes the collection, synthesis, and presentation of biological data and information.
* is all the money invested in products sold
  - measured in terms of number of areas and total acreage
  - raw material that goes in and comes out as finished goods
* is the cost of goods a business buys to resell
  - first step to conserving plant diversity
  - list of the contents of collections
  - lubricant of a strong economy
  - number on hand at the end of the year
  - stock or store of an item or a resource used by an organization
  - store of raw materials, parts, and finished products on hand
  - used to cope with uncertainty along the supply chain
  - valued by average cost
* refers to products a company owns for the purpose of selling to customers.
* refers to the amount of goods being stored
  - identification and documentation of all such programs, systems, and devices

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Excess inventory
* byproduct of poor information flow.
* is the deadliest of deadly sins in the supply chain
  - downside of buying large quantities at a reduced price from vendors

Linked list
* are a collection of data ordered sequentially.
+ LISP: Programming languages
  * Linked lists are a very important data structure in Lisp.