University of Wisconsin Unified KnowledgeBase University of Wisconsin Unified KnowledgeBase Glossary

1. A dunning letter is a notification sent to a customer, stating that the customer is overdue in paying an account receivable to the sender.

First part of the small intestine. The secretions of the liver and pancreas are discharged into the duodenum.

a halftone picture made up of two printed colors

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to create and edit correspondence to notify the study team of the IRB review outcome for a particular application  The IRB staff reviewer will choose from several letter templates based on the type of application and the IRB's motion and will be able to manually edit the letter as needed.    

A worldwide roaming access wireless internet service that allows affiliates of participating schools to access the internet at other participating campuses.
Handling Information

Elastic goods and services generally have plenty of substitutes. Inelastic goods have fewer substitutes and price change doesn't affect quantity demanded as much. Some inelastic goods include gas, electricity, water, drinks, clothing, tobacco, food, and oil.

An email address identifies the account that messages should be delivered (e.g., bbadger@wisc.edu). An account can have multiple email addresses. Each account in Microsoft 365 has only one primary address, but an account can have multiple alternate addresses. An account will accept email for any email address on the account.

In email addresses, the domain is the part of an email address comes after the @ symbol. For example, for the email address of "bbadger@wisc.edu", the domain is "wisc.edu".

EMPL ID, or Employee ID, a unique identifier assigned by PeopleSoft. Each student will have an EMPL ID in WiSH.

The nutritive tissue of a plant seed, surrounding and absorbed by the embryo.

A measure of the concentration of energy in a feed or a ration usually expressed as a unit of energy (megacalorie or megajoule) per lb of dry matter or per kg of dry matter.

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1. EPD Academic Staff Committee This committee assists department academic staff with information about academic staff governance and promotions. They are also connected with the college-wide CASI: Committee on Academic Staff Issues which advises the College of Engineering dean on academic staff policy and procedure formulation, review and development, in compliance with campus policies and procedures.

• The EPD Community is a central space within Socialcast where conversations can occur related to EPD events or outings, announcements on achievements or fun facts/stories, and anything else the department would like the EPD Community to become. 

This is a state in ARROW.  Applications in this state have undergone review by an IRB staff reviewer and determined to qualify for exemption. In this state, the study team can submit changes of protocol, personnel changes, and reportable events, as well as report study completion.  

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the study team to automatically set a new 5 year renewal period for the exemption if the activities are not yet complete.  The study team must provide attestation of exempt status of study.  There is no limited on the use of the “Extend Exemption” activity, as long as the activities conducted under the exemption are not yet complete and the the exempt status of the study has not changed.

A number that determines a student’s eligibility for federal student aid. A student's SAI is calculated by the Department of Education based on the financial information  a student, their parents, and/or spouse provide on their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The lower the SAI, the higher level of financial need a student has. SAIs can range from -1,500 to 999,999.

A chain of carbon terminated by an acid (carboxyl) group (COOH). Fatty acids with less than 4 carbon units are volatile. Fatty acids with 5 to 20 carbon units are usually found as part of fats and oils.

1. All international individuals are reported in a separate category called “International”. “International” in this context refers to individuals who are not U.S. citizens and are not in permanent resident or refugee status.
2. Domestic (non-international) individuals who identify as Hispanic are reported as “Hispanic”, regardless of the racial identities provided.
3. Domestic individuals who do not identify as Hispanic but identify multiple races are reported as “2 or more races”.
4. Domestic individuals who do not identify as Hispanic and only identified a single race are reported in that racial category (i.e. American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, White).

Racial/ethnic sub-categories for students are not considered part of the federal reporting methodology and are used only at the state and UW System level.

Nutrient of low energy density present in large quantities in forages. Fiber is composed of structural carbohydrates (cellulose and hemicellulose) and phenolic compounds. Fiber is important for dairy cows because they stimulate rumination and promote a healthy rumen environment for bacterial growth. However, in large amounts in the diet, fiber may fill the rumen, limit intake of energy and constrain milk production.

Hemicellulose and cellulose that can be quantify by the neutral detergent fiber procedure.

A place where we store a value, like a name or address. If we think of our data like a spreadsheet, then a field would be a column on the spreadsheet.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer or IRB floater to finalize IRB-approved documents for the study team.  The documents that can be finalized include IRB-approved consent forms and recruitment fliers.  Once the IRBS or IRBF finalizes a document, it is made into a pdf file and stamped with the IRB approval date, expiration date and name of the reviewing IRB.

Coarse feeds, such as straw, corn or sorghum stalks.

bindery term, one or more intentional creases in the paper

This term was defined by Congress in 2008 as an area in the USA with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, particularly such an area composed of predominantly lower income neighborhoods and communities

The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) defines food insecurity as a household characteristic. Food insecure households are those for which “consistent access to adequate food is limited by a lack of money and other resources at times during the year” (See more at: USDA-ERS).

The state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. During the first decade of this century, more than 800 million people live every day with hunger or food insecurity as their constant companion (see also National Academy of Science definitions).

Food losses refer to the decrease in edible food mass throughout the part of the supply chain that specifically leads to edible food for human consumption. Food losses take place at production, post-harvest and processing stages in the food supply chain. Food losses occurring at the end of the food chain (retail and final consumption) are rather called “food waste”, which relates to retailers’ and consumers’ behavior.

Food security exists “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life.” According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the three pillars of food security are: availability, access and (safe) utilization. In addition you can learn about the four dimensions of food insecurity at the FAO website.

Food waste is a component of food loss and occurs when an edible item goes unconsumed as a result of human action or inaction, such as food discarded by retailers as a result of appearance or plate waste by consumers.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB to move a study to the archived state. 

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB submission manager to manually forward a submission that has been withdrawn by the IRB to the archive state.  

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB submission manager to forward a submission in the IRB withdrawn state to the Changes Requested -Scientific Review state.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB submission manager to forward a submission in the IRB withdrawn state to the Deferral Response Pending state.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to forward an application to an expedited reviewer.  This activity should be used when it is determined that expedited review is the most appropriate review process for the application. 

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to forward an application to a facilitated reviewer.  This activity should be used when it is determined that facilitated review is the most appropriate review process for the application.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB submission manager to forward a new submission to administrative review when scientific review is not required for the new submission. The activity requires attestation from IRB submission manager  that scientific review is not required. 

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB submission manager to transition a submission out of the PRS review state back to the IRB Pre-Meeting state in preparation for review at a convened IRB meeting.  

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB submission manager or the IRB staff reviewer to forward a submission currently in the PRS review state to IRB Pre-Review.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to forward a submission to the IRB for review of a modification response from the study team.  This activity can be used when the study team's response requires additional review by the full IRB.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB submission manager to forward a submission in the IRB withdrawn state to the Issues Pending state.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB submission manager to forward a submission in the IRB withdrawn state to the Modifications Requested state.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to forward a submission back to the Pre-submission state.  This activity can occur in Pre-review, In Expedited Review and In Exempt Review states.  This activity can be used when the application has been triaged incorrectly (e.g. requires review by a different IRB or scientific review). 

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB submission manager or IRB staff reviewer to forward a submission to scientific review.  Applications will be assigned to: 1. CTRC PIR, 2. PRMC, or 3. ICTR SRC. 

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to forward an application to an exempt reviewer.  This activity should be used when it is determined that exempt review is the most appropriate review process for the application.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to forward an application in the expedited review state to full review because the application  requires full review.

There are two basic ways that we count the number of employees. When we use headcount, each individual person counts as one employee whether their appointment is full time or part time. When we use "FTE," we are using the "Full Time Equivalent."

The Full Time Equivalent is the total of all positions using the percentage of the appointment rather than the number of individual employees. This is what the headcount looks like for the same employees using each measure:

Employee A - .5 appointment
Employee B - 1.0 appointment
Employee C - .6 appointment
Employee D - .4 appointment

Using Headcount, there are 4 employees
Using FTE, there are 2.5 employees (.5 + 1 + .6 + .4 = 2.5)

The Global Address List (GAL) is the address look up feature in Office 365. It contains email addresses for individuals and resources, excluding those that are hidden. Office 365 uses the Global Address List to supply email addresses when you are composing a message or inviting individuals to meetings.

Hard Disk Drive

Help Desk Quality Assurance. This refers to the agent who answers questions from other agents and routes forwarded cases to the appropriate technicians. (Previously known as HDI)

right reading sheets with head on top, that, when duplexed, heads run together on front and back of sheet. The back sheet is right-side up

right reading sheets with head on top, that, when duplexed, heads run opposite on front and back of sheet. The back sheet is upside down

A period of 9 to 24 hours preceding the ovulation during which cows are receptive to bulls and exhibit a typical behavior of mounting other cows or standing when mounted by other cows (or a bull).

Relating to or considered in terms of pleasant (or unpleasant) sensations.

The former name of the combined team of the current Contract Partner Support Help Desk and DoIT Help Desk Enterprise Support. The Help Desk announced a re-organization in December 2024.

The Hide/Show Errors link appears at the top of each application form. This link checks the submission for any required questions that are not answered.

This is activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to hold a change application submitted by the research team in order to proceed with review of a continuing review application that has also been submitted concurrently.  In ARROW, with the exception of a personnel change amendment, only one submission will be in the IRB review process at a time.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to hold a change application submitted by the research team in order to proceed with review of a reportable event application that has been submitted concurrently.  In ARROW, with the exception of a personnel change amendment, only one submission will be in the IRB review process at a time.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to hold a continuing review application submitted by the research team in order to proceed with review of a reportable event application that has been submitted concurrently.  In ARROW, with the exception of a personnel change amendment, only one submission will be in the IRB review process at a time.

This is a state in ARROW.  Studies in this state cannot be scheduled for an IRB meeting until the Ancillary Committee Review decision has been entered into the system.

This is a state in ARROW.  In this state, change applications are being held until a continuing review application has been submitted by the study team and reviewed by the IRB.

This is a state in ARROW.  In this state, continuing and change applications are being held until a reportable event has been submitted by the study team.  Once the reportable event has been submitted, the continuing or change will transition back to the pre-review state.

1. Hybrid learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace.  Can also be called Blended Learning.

Strong acid secreted by the abomasum that breaks down chemical bounds and thus contributes to the digestion of feeds.

Decomposition of a chemical compound by reaction with water.

This is state in ARROW.  Studies in this state have been identified as qualifying for expedited review and have been assigned an expedited reviewer. 

an unplanned interruption to an IT Service or a reduction in the performance or reliability of an IT Service

• A custom class that embeds the contents of a KB document or url into a host KB document.

postal information place on a printed product

• The Industrial Refrigeration Consortium (IRC) is a collaborative effort between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and industry. They work to improve the safety, efficiency, and productivity of industrial refrigeration systems and technologies, realizing this goal by conducting applied research, delivering knowledge transfer, and providing technical assistance. Although efforts are focused on industrial refrigeration systems that utilize anhydrous ammonia, they also work with systems that use other refrigerants.
  
  The IRC offers a unique combination of complementary resources that include academic qualifications, technical expertise, and practical experience. They provide objective information that is not biased by an affiliation with any particular organization.

Program knowledge level that builds on an introductory program, most appropriate for learners with detailed knowledge in an area. Such persons are often at a mid-level within the organization, with operational or supervisory responsibilities, or both.

By default, all Institutional Data that is not explicitly classified as Restricted, Sensitive or Public data is treated as Internal data. See UW-Madison Data Classifications. 

The final day on which a student can match to an Auto-Match opportunity. It is also the final day a student's imported SIS data will update in an opportunity's application grid. (The data will freeze at 11:59 PM on this day.) Please note that:

• Students cannot see the Internal End Date; it is only for administrators.
• Every opportunity must have an Internal End Date that ends before the start of Cycle Management of the next year (the process of opening the new General Application for the year.)
• If you change the Internal End Date after it has passed to a date in the future, students will start matching to your opportunity (if an Auto-Match) and student imported SIS data will begin to update again.
• Internal End Dates should be set as the same day or after the date the Public End Date is set to.

Program knowledge level most beneficial to learners new to a skill or an attribute. These individuals are often at the staff or entry level in organizations. Although such program may also benefit a seasoned professional with limited exposure to the area.

a numerical label assigned to each device using the Internet Protocol to communicate over a network

This is a state in ARROW.  Studies in this state will undergo administrative review by the IRB submission manager in order to determine appropriate IRB and staff reviewer assignment.  In this state, the IRB submission manager can also send administrative issues to the study team. 

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to close a study in the approved state once the study team has submitted a study completion report.

This is a state in ARROW in which an IRB member can conduct a review of a modification response by the study team upon the request of an IRB staff reviewer.  In this state, the IRB member can submit modification review notes regarding their assessment of the modification response.  Then the IRB staff reviewer forwards the submission back to IRB Review of Modification Response.

This is a state in ARROW.  Studies in this state were previously reviewed by the IRB and modifications were requested.  The response from the study team requires review by the IRB to determine whether the study team has adequately addressed the IRB's requests.  In this state, the IRB staff reviewer can send the modification response to an IRB member or schedule it for review at a full meeting.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to suspend a study in the approved state (for example, due to report of an unanticipated problem for which the IRB determined involved risk of harm to subjects). 

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to withdraw a study from the review process.

This is a state in ARROW.  Studies in this state have been withdrawn by the IRB due to lack of response to an IRB request for modifications or deferral response.

Abbreviation for IRB director role.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows an ancillary committee representative to indicate in the ARROW system the outcome of the ancillary committee review.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the CTRC PIR committee representative to indicate in the ARROW system the outcome of the committee review.  Once the motion has been entered, the study will transition out of the 'Scientific Review' state.

KCS (Knowledge-Centered Service) is a knowledge/information management model. It focuses on knowledge being created, used, reviewed, and edited by the same team that is resolving the issues, rather than a parallel knowledge management team. 

 That, which is discovered and used to change one's life or the life of others.

A Department ID is the sequence of numbers that identifies a specific campus department, program, or entity. Historically, the Department ID was known as a "UDDS," which stands for "Unit, Division, Department, Subdepartment." This term is still in use in some resources, so we are including it in this glossary listing.

In more practical terms, a Department ID/UDDS is the unique combination of letters and numbers that identify the division, department, and possibly subdepartment, associated with a particular personnel, research, financial, or other activity or transaction.

EXAMPLE:  The full Department ID for a particular Letters & Science Department would be written as : 48XXXX.

"48" stands for "College of Letters & Science"

"XXXX" are the four numbers that identify the specific department, program, project, or other administrative entity.

A list of Letters & Science Department ID/UDDS numbers can be found at:

UW Madison Coding Information Dept ID

Click on the link and you will be directed to the Accounting Services web site.  Click on the Coding link on the left side of the screen.  Click on the Organization/Dept ID.  When the excel list opens click on A48 to find a list of all Letters & Science Departments and descriptions. 

UDDS Look Up Tool

The official lists of majors, certificates, and degrees offered in Letters & Science are available on-line:

• The Guide provides a comprehensive list of undergraduate majors, special degree programs, certificates, and concentrations organized by the respective school or college that offers the academic program.
• The Guide also provides a comprehensive list of graduate degrees, minors, and certificates. The information is organized alphabetically for all university programs.

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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. This often refers to the NetID Utility, which is used for NetID password resets and to look up customer information such as NetID, email forwarding and filter information, current university affiliation, and active services.

1. The LDT and Marketing Production Team Education Support Services team that is responsible for the creation, processing, and delivery of instructional and promotional assets for InterPro efforts.

1. The Leadership Team provides necessary support to enable the efficient execution of InterPro's overall operation.  The Leadership Team functions to ensure strong lines of communication between each sub-unit, encouraging alignment to InterPro's mission, pursuit of its vision, and overall effectiveness of execution.

1. The Learning Design and Technologies (LDT) team provides effective support, consultation, strategic planning, and leadership in all current and emerging areas of teaching, learning, and technologies. Their work supports faculty, staff and students, and includes all phases of instructional design, development, and evaluation.
   
   They are dedicated to providing high quality learning experiences; empowering stakeholders with effective best practices, technologies, support and consultation; building constructive partnerships with UW-Madison campus units; and sustaining a strong record of scholarly activity through research and conferences in order to stay informed of emerging areas that drive educational innovation.

A special type of application plan that can interface with Windows programs outside of Perceptive Content and pull information from them. The information can then be mapped to document keys.

• Letter of Recommendation #1
• Letter of Recommendation #2
• Letter of Recommendation #3
• Letter of Recommendation #4
• Letter of Recommendation #5

Please note that only Users/Reviewers with the appropriate ImageNow access will be able to access the links. If you’d like to sign your Review Group(s) up for ImageNow access for Letters of Recommendation, please use our sign-up sheet.

Any of the numerous fat or fat-like materials that are generally insoluble in water, but soluble in common organic solvents. Nutritionally, lipids contain about 2.25 times more energy then carbohydrates.

Living documentation is a dynamic system documentation that provides information that is current, accurate and easy to understand. Documents that are written in a natural language format serve as the core of living documentation. Your content experts can review the documentation to ensure that it describes the desired behavior of the system from a logical standpoint.

media access control address - a unique identifier assigned to all network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment
Also known as: physical address, Ethernet ID

A diet that supplies the nutrients required to maintain vital functions (heart beat, respiration) and assure a constant body temperature.

all the activities required to prepare a press for printing

Mobile Device Management

Multi-factor authentication is part of the new UW–Madison login process that verifies your identity. It combines something you know (your NetID and password) with something you have (smartphone, token/fob or tablet) preventing anyone but you from logging into a system. UW-Madison has partnered with Duo to provide this service.

You will now need to log in by:

1. Entering your NetID and password, and

2. Confirming your login with the Duo app on your device.

Office 365 is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft. To see what features are available in UW-Madison's implementation, check here: Microsoft 365 - What features are included in Microsoft 365?

Office 365 Video is an intranet website portal where people can post and view videos. It's a streaming video service that's available with SharePoint Online in Office 365. It's a great place to share videos of executive communications or recordings of classes, meetings, presentations, or training sessions, for example. Office 365 Video displays a thumbnail image of each video on the site. You just select a thumbnail to view a particular video.

Midlife in the US, the longitudinal study the MIDUS Neuroscience project is one of the sub-projects of.

This is a state in ARROW.  Studies in this state have gone to an IRB meeting and IRB modifications have been sent to the study team.  Study teams must submit a response to the modifications before the study can move on from this state.

This is an activity that is completed by a staff review.  This means that a modification response submitted by a study team has been reviewed by the IRB staff reviewer and was found to have adequately addressed the IRB's concerns without the need for additional full board review. 

Allows a floater (assistant) to confirm that they have completed a preliminary review of a modification response submitted by a study team. Additional action must be taken by the assigned staff reviewer in order for the submission to move forward in the system.

Morbidity is an incidence of ill health. It is measured in various ways, often by the probability that a randomly selected individual in a population at some date and location would become seriously ill in some period of time. Contrast to mortality.

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A NetID is your username which allows both students and administrators access to WiSH and other University services (i.e. Office 365 email, MyUW, calendaring, student records, payroll information, etc.)

For more information, please check out this IAM KB page on NetIDs.

A measure of the amount of cell wall in a feed determined by a laboratory procedure. Neutral detergent fiber includes cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin.

The Help Desk NetID Utility, located at https://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/internal/tools/netid/index.php

Carbohydrates that are not part of the neutral detergent fiber, but generally accumulate in the plant as energy reserve (e.g., starch). These carbohydrates usually are more rapidly and more completely digested than the fibrous carbohydrates (syn Non-structural carbohydrate).

Income with no work requirement; related to a non-service appointment (e.g. Fellow, Scholar, Trainee). Payment of the funds is not dependent on work or service to the university performed by the recipient.

(see non-fiber carbohydrate).

1. The Notebook Production Group (NPG) collaborates with instructors and EPD faculty and staff to create high-quality digital and printed course material for EPD's professional development courses. The team uses a combination of tools, expertise, and a streamlined, efficient, and organized process are to ensure that all materials meet the needs of both internal and external customers.

This project offers a University of Wisconsin-Madison humanities class for adult students facing economic barriers to college. Learn more here: Odyssey Project

Typically, when you use a Microsoft Exchange Server account (Office 365 account), your email messages, calendar, and other items are delivered to and saved on the server. You can configure Outlook to keep a local copy of your items on your computer in an Outlook data file that is named an offline Outlook Data File (.ost). This allows you to use Cached Exchange Mode or to work offline when a connection to the Office 365 (Exchange) computer may not be possible or wanted. The .ost file is synchronized with the Office 365 (Exchange) computer when a connection is available.

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OneDrive for Business is Office 365's file hosting service. It allows users to upload and sync files to a cloud storage and then access them from a web browser or their local device.

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Perceptive Enterprise Deployment Suite. A service used to deploy updates automatically to Perceptive Content clients connected to the PEDS server.

1. At least 2 but not more that 100 amino acids linked together by a peptic bound. 2. Product of pepsin digestion of proteins.

type of binding that uses glue on the spine of the sheets to adhere a cover to the sheets, like a phone book

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A Personal Folders file (.pst) is an Outlook data file that stores your messages and other items on your computer. This is the most common file in which information in Outlook is saved by home users or in small organizations. Learn more.