Definition. Diphtheria is a potentially fatal, contagious disease that usually involves the nose, throat, and air passages, but may also infect the skin. Its most striking feature is the formation of a grayish membrane covering the tonsils and upper part of the throat.
Prevail is a state-of-the-art, multi-user information management system that helps law firms (and similarly-structured enterprises) manage every aspect of their case information, contacts, documents, calendars, tasks, statutes, time, costs, fees and workflow.
Preemption (computing) In computing, preemption is the act of temporarily interrupting a task being carried out by a computer system, without requiring its cooperation, and with the intention of resuming the task at a later time. Such changes of the executed task are known as context switches. It is normally carried out by a privileged task or part of the system known as a preemptive scheduler, which has the power to preempt, or interrupt, and later resume, other tasks in the system.