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Acknowledgements

Lecturers in FIONTAR, Dublin City University, provided definitions for most of the business and computing terms which are defined in the database. In addition, some definitions were acquired from the following:

• Borowski, E.J. and Borwein., J.M. (1989). Collins Dictionary of Mathematics. 2nd edition. London: HarperCollins.
• Butler, B. and Isaacs, A. (1993). Oxford Reference Dictionary of Finance. 2nd edition: USA: Market House Books Ltd.
• Greener, M. (1994). The Penguin Business Dictionary. 2nd edition. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
• Gunn, M., EGT Ltd
• Hordeski, M.F. (1995). The McGraw-Hill Illustrated Dictionary of Personal Computers. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Howe, D. (2007) Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing.
• Nader, J.C. (1998). Prentice Hall’s Illustrated Dictionary of Computing, 3rd edition: Sydney: Pearson Education Australia.
• PCWebopedia (2002). Computers in the Classroom.
• Rosenberg, J.M. (1995). Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising. Wiley: Chichester.
• Sinclair, I.R. (1991). Collins Dictionary of Personal Computing. Glasgow: HarperCollins.

These term definitions were used by kind permission of the above. If we have inadvertently omitted any person or company from the list, they are welcome to contact us.