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5 unusual facts about DAF


Daf-16

DAF-16 is the sole ortholog of the FOXO family of transcription factors in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

Hub van Doorne

Their Van Doorne transmission, using a belt drive between two adjustable coned pulleys, was widely used as the Variomatic in small Daf cars.

New Kids Turbo

He orders the group to lower their weapons, which they do, but is caught off-guard by a DAF curtainsider lorry careering through his troops.

Paul Caldani

In 1958, an Iranian TV children's program invited him to perform live Kurdish dance on TV where he performed Kurdish dance and playing the Tonbak and Daf until his late teens.

Rocar De Simon U412-DAF

Rocar De Simon U412-DAF was a model produced by the Romanian bus and trolleybus manufacturer Rocar.


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Boudewijn Poelmann

Before establishing Novamedia in 1983, he worked with DAF and Oxfam Novib (Dutch organization for international development aid).

Electronic body music

Emerging in the late 1970s, the genre's early influences range from industrial music (Throbbing Gristle, Chrome, Cabaret Voltaire), European synthpunk (DAF, Liaisons Dangereuses, Portion Control), and electronic music (Kraftwerk).

Farouk El Safi

Amongst western audiences, Farouk is best known as the bendir/daf player, on No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded album and, live for their legendary MTV Unplugged performance.

Fehlfarben

Its founding members were Peter Hein (vocals), former Mittagspause ("lunch break"), Thomas Schwebel (guitar, former Mittagspause, S.Y.P.H.), Michael Kemner (bass, former 20 Colors, Mau Mau, DAF, YOU), Frank Fenstermacher (saxophone, later Der Plan), Markus Oehlen and Uwe Bauer (drums, former Mittagspause, Materialschlacht).

Fleet telematics system

Daimler Chrysler, MAN AG, Scania, DAF, IVECO, Volvo, and Renault, agreed to give third parties access to vehicle data using the CAN-bus as a connection.

Forrestfield, Western Australia

Kenworth DAF also relocated from Guildford to a new $10 million complex on Abernethy Road in 2005.

Giovanni Michelotti

Famous buyers include the Dutch Royal Family, who used an early DAF-based Shellette at their summer property in Porto Ercole, and Jacqueline Onassis, who employed a later model Shellette on the Onassis' private island Skorpios.

Marker-assisted selection

DNA-based and/or molecular- A unique gene (DNA sequence), occurring in proximity to the gene or locus of interest, can be identified by a range of molecular techniques such as RFLP, RAPD, AFLP, DAF, SCAR, microsatellite, or single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) detection.

Mastan Ensemble

The instruments employed by this Ensemble include Daf, Dayereh, Kamāncheh, Lute, Reed, Robab, Santour, Tār and Tonbak.

Meyer Shapiro

Meir Shapiro, dean of Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva, and founder of the Daf Yomi Talmud folio cycle

Pek

Khadaffy Janjalani, also known as Daf or Pek, the nominal leader of the Filipino terrorist group Abu Sayyaf and the leader of one of its factions

Rover Group

(Note: After being declared bankrupt in 1993 the new DAF NV company split into three independent companies; the UK van operation became LDV, the Dutch operation resumed trading as DAF Trucks and the UK truck operation resumed trading as Leyland Trucks. Both truck operations were later acquired by PACCAR of the USA.)

Scania N112

The N112 was also built as an airport shuttle bus with Van Hool Alizee coach body and DAF Variomatic transmission, and in this form Capital Coaches of West Drayton ordered 23 on behalf of the British Airports Authority (BAA) at Heathrow in 1987, while Terminus Securities Ltd took one in 1988 for work at Gatwick.

The Doors Art Foundation

DAF has successfully introduced to the American public more than 60 Croatian films, through its ongoing film screenings and the annual Croatian Film Festival in New York held at Tribeca Cinemas and the Museum of the Moving Image.

TVAC

The first vehicle bodied by TVAC was R101 NBV, a DAF 55 truck, for the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, the brigade that covered the area that TVAC's factory is located in.

World Safari

Includes a motorcycle trip across Australia, living with Buddhist monks, selling life insurance on the side of the road, and getting lost in a two-cylinder DAF van while crossing the Sahara desert.


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