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HARDWARE INVESTMENT [2 records]

Record 1 2014-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dactyloscopy
  • Police
CONT

[Fingerprint minutiae] data gathered by all five AFRSs [Automatic Fingerprint Reader System] for the file conversion effort... i. e., reading all fingerprint cards on file with subject date of birth 1929 and later, and storing the minutiae data [was completed. ] Many of the cards processed were dog-eared, frayed and required mending to process them through the AFRSs. [For] a modest additional investment, the minutiae detection processor can be included in the hardware, increasing the throughput by 50%.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dactyloscopie
  • Police
OBS

Le processeur construit une image d'empreinte finale. Ainsi, on obtient une image amincie ou squelettisée des points caractéristiques d'une empreinte. Cette image est utilisée pour l'étape de la détection des minuties, qui s’avère alors être une opération triviale.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research Facilities
CONT

... the cost of conducting research or undertaking impact assessment studies in the Arctic is very high. The financial investment related to... research hardware and study platforms can become exorbitant. For example, in 1975, an oceanographic research vessel... was estimated to cost about $10 million... and the BIOS project, a current research effort involving an experimental oil spill in the Arctic, is expected to cost over $7 million....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations de recherche scientifique
OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme d'étude

Spanish

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