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  2. Wowhead - Wikipedia

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    Wowhead is a website that provides a searchable database, internet forum, guides and player character services for the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft. It is owned and operated by ZAM Network LLC ( doing business as Fanbyte), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] a subsidiary of the Chinese company Tencent .

  3. Military logistics - Wikipedia

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    Unlike business logistics, the objective of military logistics is not cost effectiveness of the supply chain, but maximum sustained combat effectiveness. [56] At the tactical level, effectiveness is the overriding consideration, whereas at the strategic level efficiency is the dominant concern.

  4. Navy Supply Corps - Wikipedia

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    The Supply Corps emerged from the traditions of ashore naval logistics and the shipboard position of Purser, which had been in use with the Royal Navy since the 14th Century. The ship's Purser was primarily responsible for the handling of money and the procurement and keeping of stores and supplies.

  5. History of military logistics - Wikipedia

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    The history of military logistics goes back to Neolithic times. The most basic requirements of an army are food and water. The most basic requirements of an army are food and water. Early armies were equipped with weapons used for hunting like spears, knives, axes and bows and arrows, and were small due to the practical difficulty of supplying ...

  6. Skinning (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Skinning is the act of skin removal, usually from a dead animal. Skinning may also refer to: Skinning, a 2010 Serbian film; The process of applying a computer skin that changes the look, feel, and navigation interface of application software; In skeletal animation, defining an influence that bones have over the mesh; Uphill skiing using ski skins

  7. Logistics - Wikipedia

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    A warehouse in South Jersey, a U.S. East Coast epicenter for logistics and warehouse construction outside Philadelphia, where trucks deliver slabs of granite [1]. Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption according to the needs of customers.

  8. Skinner knife - Wikipedia

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    The skinner knife or skinning knife is a professional tool for a skinner. Typically a skinner knife has wide, short, curved blade. Skinning knives are more a tool than a weapon. Their curved shape was developed to minimize the risk of puncturing hides during the skinning process, and to allow for maximal use of the heel region of the blade.

  9. Travelling salesman problem - Wikipedia

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    The problem is of considerable practical importance, apart from evident transportation and logistics areas. A classic example is in printed circuit manufacturing: scheduling of a route of the drill machine to drill holes in a PCB. In robotic machining or drilling applications, the "cities" are parts to machine or holes (of different sizes) to ...