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  2. Control car - Wikipedia

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    Modern German InterCity Steuerwagen control car. A control car, cab car (North America), control trailer, or driving trailer (UK, Ireland, Australia and India) is a non-powered rail vehicle from which a train can be operated.

  3. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Esther Takeuchi (born 1953) – holds more than 150 US-patents, the largest number for any woman in the United States; Igor Tamm (1895–1971), Russia – co-developer of tokamak; Ching W. Tang (born 1947), Hong Kong/U.S., together with Steven Van Slyke, U.S. – OLED; Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi (c. 1187), Middle East – counterweight trebuchet ...

  4. Data vault modeling - Wikipedia

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    Hubs contain a list of unique business keys with low propensity to change. Hubs also contain a surrogate key for each Hub item and metadata describing the origin of the business key. The descriptive attributes for the information on the Hub (such as the description for the key, possibly in multiple languages) are stored in structures called ...

  5. San Francisco System - Wikipedia

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    The San Francisco System (also known as the "Hub and Spokes" architecture) is a network of alliances pursued by the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, after the end of World War II [1] – the United States as a "hub", and Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand as "spokes". [2]

  6. List of Swiss inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    In 1750 he published Cramer's rule, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a linear equation system having a unique solution, in terms of determinants implied by the system. This rule is still standard.

  7. Onyx (interception system) - Wikipedia

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    Onyx is a Swiss intelligence gathering system maintained by the Federal Intelligence Service - Nachrichtendienst des Bundes (NDB). The costs of the system are not public, but the amount of 100 million Swiss francs has been mentioned several times, [ 1 ] in particular in 2000 by Werner Marti , SP deputy to the National Council (Switzerland) .

  8. Object detection - Wikipedia

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    Objects detected with OpenCV's Deep Neural Network module (dnn) by using a YOLOv3 model trained on COCO dataset capable to detect objects of 80 common classes. Object detection is a computer technology related to computer vision and image processing that deals with detecting instances of semantic objects of a certain class (such as humans, buildings, or cars) in digital images and videos. [1]

  9. Integrated Ballistics Identification System - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] The Maryland system was shut down in 2015 due to its ineffectiveness. [5] By 2008, the New York COBIS system, which costs $4 million per year, [4] had not produced any hits leading to prosecutions in 7 years of operation. [6] The system has been more successful when used to track guns used by and found on criminals. [7]