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  2. Bacs - Wikipedia

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    Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs), previously known as Bankers' Automated Clearing System, is responsible for the clearing and settlement of UK automated direct debit and Bacs Direct Credit and the provision of third-party services. [1] Bacs became a subsidiary of Pay.UK (formerly known as New Payment System Operator (NPSO)) on 1 May 2018, [2 ...

  3. Bács (given name) - Wikipedia

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    In the early Árpádic age (11-13th centuries) Bács/Bácsa was a common Hungarian personal name. One member of the Aba clan, Baach, the brother of Both and Tekus, was the ancestor of the Tornay family in the 13th century. [8] In the second half of the 13th century another Bács was the comes of Trencsén county.

  4. Bacterial artificial chromosome - Wikipedia

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    Bacterial artificial chromosome. A bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) is a DNA construct, based on a functional fertility plasmid (or F-plasmid), used for transforming and cloning in bacteria, usually E. coli. [1][2][3] F-plasmids play a crucial role because they contain partition genes that promote the even distribution of plasmids after ...

  5. Automated clearing house - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. An automated clearing house (ACH) is a computer-based electronic network for processing transactions, [1] usually domestic low value payments, between participating financial institutions. It may support both credit transfers and direct debits. [2][3] The ACH system is designed to process batches of payments containing numerous ...

  6. Blood alcohol content - Wikipedia

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    EBAC is the estimated blood alcohol concentration (in g/L) A is the mass of alcohol consumed (g). T is the amount time during which alcohol was present in the blood (usually time since consumption began), in hours. β is the rate at which alcohol is eliminated, averaging around 0.15 g/L/hr. [30]

  7. Short-term effects of alcohol consumption - Wikipedia

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    The short-term effects of alcohol consumption range from a decrease in anxiety and motor skills and euphoria at lower doses to intoxication (drunkenness), to stupor, unconsciousness, anterograde amnesia (memory "blackouts"), and central nervous system depression at higher doses. Cell membranes are highly permeable to alcohol, so once it is in ...

  8. Yeast artificial chromosome - Wikipedia

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    Yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) are genetically engineered chromosomes derived from the DNA of the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae [1], which is then ligated into a bacterial plasmid. By inserting large fragments of DNA, from 100–1000 kb, the inserted sequences can be cloned and physically mapped using a process called chromosome walking.

  9. Faster Payments - Wikipedia

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    Faster Payments. The Faster Payments Service (FPS) is a United Kingdom banking initiative to reduce payment times between different banks' customer accounts to typically a few seconds, from the three working days that transfers usually take using the long-established BACS system. CHAPS, which was introduced in 1984, provides a limited faster ...