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    Top Scan is an amusement ride made by Mondial. The ride has six free-rotating gondolas each with five seats and the standard Mondial Triple-Lock Harnesses...
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    A computed tomography scan (CT scan), formerly called computed axial tomography scan (CAT scan), is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed...
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    The slit-scan photography technique is a photographic and cinematographic process where a moveable slide, into which a slit has been cut, is inserted between...
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    Samurai is a Mondial Top Scan ride located at Thorpe Park in the United Kingdom. It operated at nearby Chessington World of Adventures between 1999 and...
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    Heart Breaker Inferno Jet Force Mistral Roll Over Shake Super Nova Swinger Top Scan Tornado Turbine Aductis Airstrike Blender Drifter Escape Surf's Up Wild...
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    Pan and scan is a method of adjusting widescreen film images so that they can be shown in fullscreen proportions of a standard-definition 4:3 (1.33:1)...
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  • Progressive scanning (alternatively referred to as noninterlaced scanning) is a format of displaying, storing, or transmitting moving images in which...
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    Falls, a log flume water ride. In 2002, for the park's 40th anniversary, Top Scan, Balloon Tower, and Music Express were added. The next year, Viking Voyage...
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    Graham's scan is a method of finding the convex hull of a finite set of points in the plane with time complexity O(n log n). It is named after Ronald Graham...
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    Slow-scan television (SSTV) is a picture transmission method, used mainly by amateur radio operators, to transmit and receive static pictures via radio...
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    reconnaissance. The ScanEagle was designed by Insitu based on the Insitu SeaScan, a commercial UAV that was intended for fish-spotting. The ScanEagle continues...
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    Sol Spin is a swinging Top Scan ride at Knott's Berry Farm built by Mondial Rides. Riders spins in a circular rotation while swinging in an angle. The...
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    United States of the Nielsen SoundScan era. SoundScan began tracking sales data for Billboard on March 1, 1991. SoundScan data is unrelated to the Recording...
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    2019. Adelson, David (14 September 1985). "Dire Straits' Rise to the Top" (Scan). Cash Box. Vol. 49, no. 13. New York City, New York: Cash Box Publishing...
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    SCAN Health Plan (SCAN) is a not-for-profit, Medicare Advantage based in Long Beach, California. Founded in 1977, SCAN provides healthcare coverage to...
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    - wave swinger, opened in 1997, height limit 1.1 m. Zierer. Extreme - top scan, opened in 1999, moved in 2013, height limit 1.4 m. Mondial. Flying Carpet...
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    towers. In 2000, Samurai, a Mondial Top Scan, was built, as well as Double Thunder Raceway. In 2001, a Monidal Top Spin, Cliffhanger, was opened. In 2002...
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    A raster scan, or raster scanning, is the rectangular pattern of image capture and reconstruction in television. By analogy, the term is used for raster...
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    Scanline rendering (also scan line rendering and scan-line rendering) is an algorithm for visible surface determination, in 3D computer graphics, that...
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    Interlaced video (also known as interlaced scan) is a technique for doubling the perceived frame rate of a video display without consuming extra bandwidth...
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  • A retinal scan is a biometric technique that uses unique patterns on a person's retina blood vessels. It is not to be confused with other ocular-based...
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  • the "Top Holiday Albums" list and the Billboard 200. Since May 25, 1991, the Billboard 200's positions have been derived from Nielsen SoundScan sales...
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    ScanJet is a line of desktop flatbed and sheetfed image scanners originally sold by Hewlett-Packard (HP), later HP Inc., since 1987. It was the first commercially...
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    based on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems and SoundScan information. This is a list of the magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 2008. The #1 song on the list was...
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  • Group Starflyer. In March 2019 it was announced that The Beast (a Mondial Top Scan) left the Resort on 31 March, and has been replaced by AirMaxx 360 for...
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  • Fair area saw the addition of four new rides: Electro-Spin (a Mondial top scan), Zephyr (Zierer Wave Swinger), Rock N Roller (Mack Rides Music Express)...
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    scanner (often abbreviated to just scanner) is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object and converts it to a digital...
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  • RingScan is a weekly point-of-sale tracking service of ringtones and is offered by Nielsen Mobile, a division of a Nielsen Entertainment. RingScan currently...
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    Scan-Line Interleave (SLI) is a multi-GPU method developed by 3dfx for linking two (or more) video cards or chips together to produce a single output....
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    programme. In the first few months of the show in 1964, the director would just scan across the audience dancing in the absence of any other footage, but by October...
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