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Most compression algorithms have a corresponding ____________________ algorithm that restores compressed data to its original or nearly original state.

A ratio of the dose of a drug that is toxic to humans versus the minimum effective dose for that pathogen is assessed to predict the potential for toxic drug reactions. This is called the_________.

A ____ storage device stores and retrieves data items in a linear, or sequential, order.

If the CPU is idle while a device completes an access request, the CPU cycles that could have been (but weren’t) devoted to instruction execution are called ____.

​In a magneto-optical drive, the laser polarity shift used in reading is known as the “____________________ effect.”

​Each cell in the matrix representing one part of a digital image is called a ____.

​A system bus connects computer system components, including the CPU, memory, storage, and I/O devices.

Antimicrobial agents can target the cell wall by_________.

____________________ compression is usually applied only to audio and video data because the human brain tolerates missing audio and video data and can usually “fill in the blanks.”

​A(n) ____________________ is one concentric circle of a platter, or the surface area that passes under a read/write head when its position is fixed.