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NY-SCAN

It ran for at least seven years until 1992, when it was shut down by governor Mario Cuomo and the legislature after broadcasting a controversial speech by City College professor Leonard Jeffries.


Adam Wicheard

An MRI scan revealed he had a ruptured tumour in his spine which required an emergency 7 hour operation, followed by 6 months of recovery in hospital with Wicheard lying flat in bed unable to move for the first 4 months.

Bev Harris

A nonprofit organization founded by Harris, Black Box Voting, was invited by Ion Sancho, Leon County, (Florida) Supervisor of Elections to conduct a series of tests election of Diebold's GEMS central tabulator and Diebold's optical scan voting machines.

Brain Scan Studios

Brain Scan's first published material was the three issue mini-series Touch of Death, followed by Civil Wardrobe from Rich Johnston, the horror one-shot Fiendish Fables and the six issues series One Last Song.

Cheil Worldwide

Each lock, representing a woman who was suffering from forced marriage, displayed a QR code for passers-by to scan with their smartphones.

CONNECT

Communications, Navigation, and Networking reConfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT), a testbed for the Space Communications and Navigation Program (SCaN) program on the International Space Station

Copyright Renewal Act of 1992

The Internet Archive is a partner in the Million Book Project, a venture that aimed to scan over a million books to make it available to the public on the Internet.

CT pulmonary angiogram

State of the art Modern CT scanners with a scan rate of up to 320 mm/s can acquire all the images within a 1 second X-ray exposure, avoiding the problems of respiratory motion, cardiac motion and contrast draining from the pulmonary circulation during the study.

Cyberspace and Reds

Users of the app were required to scan one barcode displayed on the website, and the barcode "from the side of a 300g tin of tomato soup by a well known brand" (the brand turned out to be Heinz).

Flexible Macroblock Ordering

FMO builds on top of another error-resilience tool, Arbitrary slice ordering, because each slice group can be sent in any order and can optionally be decoded in order of receipt, instead of in the usual scan order.

Fujiko Nakaya

She opened Japan's only video art gallery, Video Gallery SCAN in Harajuku, in 1980.

Full-body CT scan

In the episode "Role Model" of the TV show House the lead character Dr. Gregory House refers to full-body scans as "useless" because, in his words, "you could probably scan every one of us and find fifty doo-dads that look like cancer".

FYAT UAV

Externally, San Eagle Simulator looks almost exactly like Boeing Insitu ScanEagle, and just like its name implies, Scan Eagle Simulator perform similar missions the US UAV does.

Hawkins Electrical Guide

This series of books is currently available for free, non-commercial use from Google Books and each volume can be downloaded as a PDF, though the illustration scan quality is not as good as the ones being added to Wikipedia on this page by Wikipedia contributors.

HM Prison Barwon

In February 2012, visiting Barwon Prison to speak to indigenous inmates as part of a mentoring program, former AFL player Wayne Carey was found to have traces of cocaine on his clothing following a routine drug scan.

Inside Living Things

The missing chapters included "Pildriver" (Making of Lies Greed Misery), "Apaches" (Making of Until it Breaks), "360 Body Scan", "Making of the Album Cover" and "The Story".

Jacqui McQueen

At Tina's scan, Tina's pregnancy paternity results uncover Russ Owen (Stuart Manning) is the baby's father, not her boyfriend and Jacqui convinces her to keep quiet.

John Stuart Foster

He developed a fast-scan radar antennae that became known as the "Foster scanner".

Justin Hammer

At the start of the Demon in a Bottle storyline, Justin Hammer invented a device called the Hypersonic Scan Transmitter which allowed him to take control of Iron Man's armor.

Kaatedocus

In 2012 Tschopp used a scan to create a replica of the neck by means of a 3D-printer.

KTDY

KTDY at one point aired American Top 40 With Casey Kasem, King Biscuit Flower Hour, Record Report and the Special of the Week with Robert W. Morgan, Scan, Powerline, Earth News, Dr. Demento, Off The Record With Mary Turner, 60 Second LP, and in the early days of the station a strange, daily comedy serial called Kremmin of the Star Corps which turns out was created by well known BBC personality Kenny Everett.

Mahendraparvata

A key feature of the expedition was its use of helicopter-mounted Lidar technology to scan the Phnom Kulen area and then map the city layout.

Malware

Worms today work in the same basic way as 1988's Internet Worm: they scan the network and use vulnerable computers to replicate.

Manuel Franquelo

In 2002, Franquelo and Lowe contributed to a project, supported by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Antiquities, to laser-scan and replicate the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings, which was completed in 2010.

Mark S. Cohen

In 1985 Cohen joined the MRI Applications Group at Siemens Healthcare where he began a career in MRI focused originally on education, and on technological improvements to reduce scan times.

MV Anne Scan

Anne Scan is a cargo ship registered in Antigua and Barbuda which was detained in Greenore, Republic of Ireland on 27 October 2009 when over 50,000,000 worth of cigarettes were discovered on board.

Network enumeration

Network Enumeration is the discovery of hosts/devices on a network, they tend to use overt discovery protocols such as ICMP and SNMP to gather information, they may also scan various ports on remote hosts for looking for well known services in an attempt to further identify the function of a remote host.The next stage of enumeration is to fingerprint the Operating System of the remote host.

Phoenix International Holdings

They provide expertise in underwater welding (wet and dry chamber); non-destructive testing; conventional and one-atmosphere manned diving; and side scan sonar and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) operations.

Retinal scan

In the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Admiral Kirk gains access to top secret computer files by use of a retinal scan.

Scansion

This basic approach has subsequently been used to scan English verse by Marina Tarlinskaja, Derek Attridge, and Peter L. Groves, though their systems differ in detail and purpose.

SpaceWire

Some NASA projects using it include the James Webb Space Telescope, Swift's Burst Alert Telescope, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LCROSS, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R), and the SCaN Testbed, previously know as the Communications, Navigation, and Networking Reconfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT).

Striking Distance

However, the ball is postponed after a police scan goes out indicating that a serial killer nicknamed the Polish Hill strangler has been spotted on the 31st Street Bridge.

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3

It is the fourth and final release in the Super Mario Advance series, and was first revealed at Nintendo's conference at the E3 2003 convention, containing several enhancements, including the addition of Mario and Luigi's voices by Charles Martinet, the ability to scan e-Cards into Nintendo's e-Reader to add certain content, and a multiplayer mode based on the original arcade game Mario Bros.

Swedish Meats

Swedish Meats (known as Scan Farmek until 1 January 1999) is a company that provides the leading Swedish meat manufacturer Scan with animals for slaughter.

Tamil Nadu Medical Services

Operate 51 CT Scans Centres (X-ray computed tomography), 64 Slice CT Scan Centrers, 8 M.R.I Scans Centre (Magnetic resonance imaging), 2 Lithotripsy Centre, 7 Regional Diagnostic Centres (offers 68 different Diagnostic lab tests)and Master Health Checkup Centers at Tamil Nadu Government Medical Institutions & Hospitals

Toonstruck

Toonstruck also features scan-line compressed FMV and was also one of the first video games to include stock music from APM Music, notably the classic "Spooky Scherzo" by Sam Fonteyn.

Two-level utilitarianism

This unbiased 'ideal observer', when presented with an unfamiliar situation, would be able to immediately scan all potential consequences of all possible actions in order to frame a universal principle from which he could decide an appropriate action for the situation.

United States military divers

Army Engineer Divers- Trained in underwater construction, salvage, demolitions, hydrographic survey, hyperbaric chamber operation, beach and river recon, bridge recon, underwater cutting and welding, side scan sonar operations, mine and countermine operations, search and recovery operations and ships husbandry operations.


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