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  2. Commencement Bay-class escort carrier - Wikipedia

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    The Commencement Bay-class escort aircraft carriers were the last class of escort carriers built for the US Navy in World War II. The ships were based on the hull of the Maritime Commission type T3 tanker , which gave them a displacement of approximately 23,000 tons and a length of 557 feet (170 m).

  3. List of land vehicles of the United States Armed Forces

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    76 mm gun motor carriage M18 Hellcat (76 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) 90 mm gun motor carriage M36 Jackson (90 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) Landing Vehicle Tracked (armored) (LVT(A))1/2/4/5 (amphibious full-track) 81 mm mortar carrier M4/A1; M21 mortar carrier; T19 howitzer motor carriage; T30 howitzer motor carriage

  4. Direct provision - Wikipedia

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    A Direct Provision centre at Lissywollen, Athlone, in 2013 – one of 34 such centres in Ireland. [1] Direct provision (Irish: Soláthar díreach) is a system of asylum seeker accommodation used in the Republic of Ireland. It has been criticised by human rights organisations as illegal, inhuman and degrading.

  5. Contact resistance - Wikipedia

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    In practice, direct current methods are more typically used to determine resistance. The three electrode systems such as transistors require more complicated methods for the contact resistance approximation. The most common approach is the transmission line model (TLM).

  6. Motor Carrier Act of 1980 - Wikipedia

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    Motor carrier deregulation was a part of a sweeping reduction in price controls, entry controls, and collective vendor price setting in United States transportation, begun in 1970-71 with initiatives in the Richard Nixon Administration, carried out through the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter Administrations, and continued into the 1980s, collectively seen as a part of deregulation in the United ...

  7. Motor carrier - Wikipedia

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    Motor carrier may refer to: Motor carrier (designation), a company which employs large semi-truck and bus drivers; Motor Carrier, an English automobile produced in 1904;

  8. Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act - Wikipedia

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    The act was initially a $547–715 billion infrastructure package that included provisions related to federal highway aid, transit, highway safety, motor carrier, research, hazardous materials and rail programs of the Department of Transportation.

  9. GOMS - Wikipedia

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    CPM-GOMS being the fourth method uses operators at the level of Model Human Processor which assumes that operators of the cognitive processor, perceptual processor, and the motor processor can work in parallel to each other. The most important point of CPM-GOMS is the ability to predict skilled behavior from its ability to model overlapping ...