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The Insurance Regulatory Information System (IRIS) is a database of insurance companies in the United States run by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. IRIS is designed to provide information about insurers' financial solvency .
The user guide engraved into a model of the Antikythera Mechanism. User guides have been found with ancient devices. One example is the Antikythera Mechanism, [1] a 2,000 year old Greek analogue computer that was found off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in the year 1900.
The iris consists of two layers: the front pigmented fibrovascular layer known as a stroma and, behind the stroma, pigmented epithelial cells.. The stroma is connected to a sphincter muscle (sphincter pupillae), which contracts the pupil in a circular motion, and a set of dilator muscles (dilator pupillae), which pull the iris radially to enlarge the pupil, pulling it in folds.
Iris recognition biometric systems apply mathematical pattern-recognition techniques to images of the irises of an individual's eyes.. Iris recognition is an automated method of biometric identification that uses mathematical pattern-recognition techniques on video images of one or both of the irises of an individual's eyes, whose complex patterns are unique, stable, and can be seen from some ...
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Iris Browser is a discontinued web browser for Windows Mobile smartphones [1] and personal digital assistants (PDAs) developed by the Torch Mobile company. The first version was released in 2008. [2] It was one of the first mobile browsers to score a perfect 100 on the Acid3 test. [3] RIM acquired Torch Mobile in 2009 and discontinued Iris. [4]
It was soon followed by the IRIS 1200, another terminal with a larger backplane, [1] before the IRIS 1400 emerged as SGCS's first standalone workstation in 1984. [2] The processor used in these early systems, the 'PM1', was a variant of the SUN (Stanford UNiversity) processor, and sported a Motorola 68000 (or 68010) clocked at 8 MHz.
Iridology (also known as iridodiagnosis [1] or iridiagnosis [2]) is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents claim that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient's systemic health.