Two of the technological advances described in this chapter were so influential that they earned their inventors a Nobel Prize in Physics. Identify the inventions and inventors.

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John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the transistor. Jack Kilby received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the development of integrated circuits.

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1) The user can tile or cascade the open children windows. 2) Visual inheritance is used to create visual consistence and uniformity. 3) In visual inheritance, the System.Windows.Forms.Form class is used as the base class. 4) Inheriting a form can be difficult in C#.

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The ____________________ layer of the OSI model controls the passage of packets along routes on the network.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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A(n) ________ is a saved link to a regularly visited webpage

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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If formulas located in other cells reference cells in a deleted row or column, Excel does not adjust these cell references but instead displays the ____ error message.

A. #NULL! B. #DIV/0! C. #N/A D. #REF!

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