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  2. Minibus Driver Awareness Scheme - Wikipedia

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    The Minibus Driver Awareness Scheme, usually abbreviated to MiDAS, is a training and registration scheme for drivers of minibuses in the UK.. Following a number of serious accidents where drivers and passengers using minibuses were killed or seriously injured in the 1990s Hampshire County Council, with the involvement of RoSPA and the Community Transport Association, created a programme to ...

  3. Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling

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    Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling, usually abbreviated to MIDAS, is a UK distributed network of traffic sensors, mainly inductive loops (trialling at the moment radar technology by Wavetronix and magneto-resistive wireless sensors by Clearview Intelligence), which are designed to alert the local regional control centre (RCC) to traffic flow and average speeds, and set ...

  4. MIDAS technical analysis - Wikipedia

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    In finance, MIDAS (an acronym for Market Interpretation/Data Analysis System) is an approach to technical analysis initiated in 1995 by the physicist and technical analyst Paul Levine, PhD, [1] and subsequently developed by Andrew Coles, PhD, and David Hawkins in a series of articles [2] and the book MIDAS Technical Analysis: A VWAP Approach to Trading and Investing in Today's Markets. [3]

  5. Missile Defense Alarm System - Wikipedia

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    Midas 9: July 19, 1963 2,000 Point Arguello LV-3A Atlas-Agena B 88.40 ----- Missile Defense Alarm System. Did not eject ERS 10 subsatellite. Midas 10: June 9, 1966 2,000 Vandenberg SLV-3 Atlas-Agena D 90.00 1966-051A Missile Defense Alarm System. Left in transfer orbit. Midas 11: Aug. 19, 1966 2,000 Vandenberg SLV-3 Atlas-Agena D 89.70 1966-077A

  6. Maximum Integrated Data Acquisition System - Wikipedia

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    MIDAS (Maximum Integration Data Acquisition System) has been developed as a general purpose data acquisition system for small and medium scale experiments originally by Stefan Ritt in 1993, followed by Pierre-André Amaudruz in 1996. It is written in C and published under the GPL.

  7. Civil Defense Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations

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    The Civil Defence Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia (Russian: Академия гражданской защиты МЧС России; АГЗ МЧС России) is a state institution for the training of highly qualified specialists in the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

  8. Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command

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    The Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command (MCAST) provides personnel, trains, equips and deploys U.S. Navy sailors for a task force commander to establish and enhance relations between military forces, governmental and nongovernmental organizations and the civilian populace. Accomplished in a collaborative manner across the ...

  9. Glossary of civil engineering - Wikipedia

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    Also Abrams' water-cement ratio law. A law which states that the strength of a concrete mix is inversely related to the mass ratio of water to cement. As the water content increases, the strength of the concrete decreases. abrasion The process of scuffing, scratching, wearing down, marring, or rubbing away a substance or substrate. It can be intentionally imposed in a controlled process using ...