Devices which allow the pilot to direct the movements of an aircraft. Examples of controls are: rudder pedals that control the rudders and cause the airplane to yaw; throttles that control the engines which generate thrust for the airplane; and the control stick that controls the ailerons and elevators which cause the airplane to roll and pitch.

Engineered mechanisms and administrative policies/

A control system that applies regulation to a heating and/or air conditioning system. A sensing device is used to compare the actual state (e.g. temperature) with a target state. Also see Controls

Experiments performed where the outcome is already known. These are tests done to verify one's procedure before making changes to the experiment.

  Procedures, which can reduce, or eliminate, the risk of a threat becoming an incident. *** The Information Security Glossary ***

A standard against which experimental observations may be evaluated, as a procedure identical in all respects to the experimental procedure, except for absence of the one factor that is being studied.

Cellular mechanisms that ensure that all events occuring during specific times in the Cell Cycle are completed and without mistakes prior to progression to the next phase of the Cell Cycle.

The containment, Regulation, or restraint of costs. Costs are said to be contained when the value of resources committed to an activity is not considered excessive. This determination is frequently su [..]

Efforts to prevent and control the spread of Infections within dental Health Facilities or those involving provision of Dental Care.

Those Forms of control which are exerted in less concrete and tangible ways, as through folkways, mores, conventions, and public sentiment.

Personality construct referring to an individual's Perception of the locus of events as determined internally by his or her own Behavior versus fate, luck, or external forces. (ERIC Thesaurus, 19 [..]

Includes mechanisms or Programs which control the numbers of individuals in a Population of Humans or Animals.

A system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in a product or process by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required. (Random [..]

The prevention of Growth and or spread of unwanted Plants.

refers to standard references by which other results are compared

Statistical and evaluation design procedures to isolate the effect of one factor on some outcome from that of others. A group of people or areas not getting a response that are compared to those receiving the response to show what would have happened to the response group, if the response group had not received the intervention (see Control group)

In a case-control study, controls are those people, places, times or events that do not have the outcome being studied - in contrast to cases which do have the outcome. For example, in a case-control study of high assault bars, the cases are bars with many assaults and the controls are bars with few or no assaults (see Cases, and Case-control).

People and situations that reduce potential offenders’ willingness or capabilities to commit crimes.

Input device hardware and the mapping of mechanics and other actions to the input device.

Generally, holdings that prevent the opponents’ winning one, two or conceivably three immediate tricks in a specified suit. Also, specifically aces and kings. Many bidding systems incorporate control- [..]

According to the classification algorithm, identifies whether the study used control animals from the same population as the affected animals (Yes or No). For example, many studies compare control ani [..]