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  2. Gateway, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Gateway, Inc., previously Gateway 2000, Inc., was an American computer company originally based in Iowa and South Dakota. Founded by Ted Waitt and Mike Hammond in 1985, the company developed, manufactured, supported, and marketed a wide range of personal computers , computer monitors , servers , and computer accessories.

  3. Workforce nationalization - Wikipedia

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    Workforce nationalization is a government initiative that can be described as the recruitment and employee development to encourage or often require the employment of native-born population in certain jobs or industry sectors, thus reducing a country‘s dependency on an expatriate workforce. [1] These efforts have been defined as a multi-level ...

  4. State Employees Credit Union - Wikipedia

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    State Employees' Credit Union was originally incorporated on June 4, 1937 by employees of the State of North Carolina. The credit union began with $437 in assets and 17 members and was first operated from the basement of Raleigh's Agriculture Building. [6] By 1960, the credit union grew to serve over 70,000 members and had assets of almost $25 ...

  5. William Schlumberger - Wikipedia

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    William Schlumberger (March 25, 1799 – February 20, 1838) was an Alsatian chess master. He is known to have taught Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant to play chess and as the operator of The Turk , a chess-playing machine which was purported to be an automaton .

  6. OLGA (technology) - Wikipedia

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    OLGA (technology) OLGA is a modelling tool for transportation of oil, natural gas and water in the same pipeline, so-called multiphase transportation. The name is short for "oil and gas simulator". The main challenge with multiphase fluid flow is the formation of slugs (plugs of oil and water) in the pipelines, which causes large problems at ...

  7. Spontaneous potential - Wikipedia

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    Since spontaneous potential is a measure of electrochemical potential and the ionic activity of a solution is inversely proportional to its resistivity, the above equation can be simplified as SP = E C = K log 10 (R mfe /R we), where R mfe and R we are equivalent mud filtrate resistivity and equivalent formation water resistivity respectively.

  8. Government Gateway - Wikipedia

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    Active. The Government Gateway is an IT system developed to allow applicants to register for online services provided by the UK Government, such as obtaining a driving licence and HMRC self-assessment. [1] This replaced the old system of paper submissions. The system was set up by the Office of the e-Envoy and allows users to register as either ...

  9. New York City - Wikipedia

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    New York, often called New York City [b] or simply NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each of which is coextensive with a respective county. New York is a global center of finance [10] and commerce ...