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Commercial-off-the-shelf or commercially available off-the-shelf ( COTS) products are packaged or canned (ready-made) hardware or software, which are adapted aftermarket to the needs of the purchasing organization, rather than the commissioning of custom-made, or bespoke, solutions. A related term, Mil-COTS, refers to COTS products for use by ...
Footnotes. [1] The United States Government Publishing Office ( USGPO or GPO ), formerly the United States Government Printing Office, is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States Federal government. The office produces and distributes information products and services for all three branches of the Federal Government, including U ...
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free. [1] Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, comic books, newspapers, and magazines. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has ...
Standard Industrial Classification. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) was a system for classifying industries by a four-digit code as a method of standardizing industry classification for statistical purposes across agencies. Established in the United States in 1937, it is used by government agencies to classify industry areas.
The provision in the Printing Act concerning copyright of government works was probably the result of the "Richardson Affair", which involved an effort in the late 1890s by Representative James D. Richardson (1843–1914) to privately copyright a government-published set of Presidential proclamations.
M {\displaystyle M} is the total dollars in the nation's money supply, V {\displaystyle V} is the number of times per year each dollar is spent ( velocity of money ), P {\displaystyle P} is the average price of all the goods and services sold during the year, Q {\displaystyle Q}
A semi-presidential republic is a government system with power divided between a president as head of state and a prime minister as head of government, used in countries like France, Portugal, and Ukraine. The president, elected by the people, symbolizes national unity and foreign policy while the prime minister is appointed by the president or ...
e. A tax is a mandatory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization to collectively fund government spending, public expenditures, or as a way to regulate and reduce negative externalities. [ 1] Tax compliance refers to policy actions and individual behaviour ...