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  2. Precious Moloi-Motsepe - Wikipedia

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    https://motsepefoundation.org. Precious Moloi-Motsepe (born 2 August 1962) [1] is a South African philanthropist and fashion entrepreneur. One of the richest women in South Africa, [2] she started her career as a medical practitioner, specializing in children and women's health. In September 2019 she was elected Chancellor of the University of ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. WITS - Wikipedia

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    WITS or Wits may refer to: Acronym. Wales Interpretation and Translation Service, a Welsh not-for-profit organisation; Water Industry Telemetry Standard, a communications protocol; Wellsite Information Transfer Specification, used by the petroleum industry; Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study, an orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  6. New Oxford Wits - Wikipedia

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    New Oxford Wits. The term New Oxford Wits was applied, around 1980, to a group of young English writers who had been at the University of Oxford in the 1970s. [citation needed] It alludes to the Oxford Wits of the 1920s. Those supposed to be in the New Oxford Wits were Martin Amis, [1] Julian Barnes, Tina Brown, James Fenton, Ian Hamilton and ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ...