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  2. Self service technologies - Wikipedia

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    Self service technologies are replacing many face-to-face service interactions with the intention to make service transactions more accurate, convenient and faster. Examples of SSTs [ edit ] Automated teller machines (ATMs), self-pumping at gas stations , self-ticket purchasing on the Internet and self-check-out at hotels and libraries are ...

  3. Self-Service Semantic Suite - Wikipedia

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    The Self-Service Semantic Suite (S4) provides on-demand access to text mining and linked open data technology in the cloud. The S4 stack is based on enterprise-grade technology from Ontotext including their leading RDF engine (GraphDB, formerly OWLIM) and high performance text mining solutions successfully applied in some of the largest enterprises in the world.

  4. Automated border control system - Wikipedia

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    Automated border control systems ( ABC) or eGates are automated self-service barriers which use data stored in a chip in biometric passports along with a photo or fingerprint taken at the time of entering the eGates to verify the passport holder's identity. Travellers undergo biometric verification using facial or iris recognition, fingerprints ...

  5. Hatchet (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Hatchet is a 1987 Newbery Honor -winning young-adult wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen. [1] It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series. Other novels in the series include The River (1991), Brian's Winter (1996), Brian's Return (1999) and Brian's Hunt (2003). [2] It was first published in September 1987 ...

  6. Self-serving bias - Wikipedia

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    The theory of self-serving biases first came to attention in the late 1960s to early 1970s. As research on this topic grew, some people had concerns about it. [13] In 1971, a fear emerged that the hypothesis would prove to be incorrect, much like the perceptual defense hypothesis by Dixon. However, the theory now holds strong.

  7. Hartford Wits - Wikipedia

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    The Hartford Wits were a group of young writers from Connecticut in the late 18th century including John Trumbull, Timothy Dwight, David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, and Lemuel Hopkins. [1] Originally the Connecticut Wits, the group formed in the late 18th century as a literary society at Yale College and then assumed a new name, the Hartford Wits ...

  8. Surviving the Applewhites - Wikipedia

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    Summary. Thirteen-year-old Jake has been kicked out of every public school in Rhode Island and burned down the last school that he attended. Both of his parents are in jail due to growing marijuana in their basement, leading to Jake struggling to make sense of the world and discover his true self amid the turmoil of his family life.

  9. Five wits - Wikipedia

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    Stephen Hawes, The Pastime Of Pleasure, XXIV "Of the Five Internall Wittes" Hering, sight, smelling and fele, cheuing er wittes five, All sal be tint er sal pas, quen þe hert sal riue. Cursor Mundi, lines 17017–17020 In the time of William Shakespeare, there were commonly reckoned to be five wits and five senses. The five wits were sometimes taken to be synonymous with the five senses, but ...