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  2. 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 ...

  3. American Broadcasting Company - Wikipedia

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    The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. ABC is headquartered on Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Team Disney ...

  4. Afghan passport - Wikipedia

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    The Afghan passport was introduced by Emir Abdur Rahman Khan in 1880. It recently became a biometric passport. Abdul Karim Hasib is the current director of the General Directorate of Passports. His predecessor was Alam Gul Haqqani. The cost of a new 5-year Afghan passport is 5,000 afghanis (AFN). A 10-year passport requires a fee of 10,000 AFN.

  5. Istanbul - Wikipedia

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    Istanbul. /  41.01361°N 28.95500°E  / 41.01361; 28.95500. Istanbul [a] is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is considered the country's economic, cultural and historic capital. The city has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of ...

  6. Plus and minus signs - Wikipedia

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    The plus sign ( +) and the minus sign ( −) are mathematical symbols used to denote positive and negative functions, respectively. In addition, + represents the operation of addition, which results in a sum, while − represents subtraction, resulting in a difference. [1] Their use has been extended to many other meanings, more or less analogous.

  7. ABC (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    ABC (medicine) Opening the airway with a head tilt-chin lift maneuver. Looking, listening and feeling for breathing. Perform chest compressions to support circulation in those who are non-responsive without meaningful breaths. ABC and its variations are initialism mnemonics for essential steps used by both medical professionals and lay persons ...

  8. Athlete biological passport - Wikipedia

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    Anti-doping bodies. v. t. e. An athlete biological passport is an individual electronic record for professional athletes, in which profiles of biological markers of doping and results of doping tests are collated over a period of time. Doping violations can be detected by noting variances from an athlete's established levels outside permissible ...

  9. Japanese passport - Wikipedia

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    Ordinary passports are issued in two different lengths of validity: 5 and 10 years. Japanese citizens up to 16 years of age can only be issued a 5 years passport, while those who are 17 years of age or older can choose either a 5 years (blue) or 10 years (red) passport for different registration fees. Official passport: Issued to members of the ...