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  2. Intermodal freight transport - Wikipedia

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    It is also common in North America and Australia to transport semi-trailers on railway flatcars or spine cars, an arrangement called "piggyback" or TOFC (trailer on flatcar) to distinguish it from container on flatcar (COFC). Some flatcars are designed with collapsible trailer hitches so they can be used for trailer or container service. [13]

  3. Foster care - Wikipedia

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    Children of the United Kingdom's Child Migration Programme – many of whom were placed in foster care in Australia. Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home (residential child care community, treatment center, juvenile center etc.), or private home of a state-certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent", or with a family member approved by the ...

  4. Center of mass - Wikipedia

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    The center of mass is the unique point at the center of a distribution of mass in space that has the property that the weighted position vectors relative to this point sum to zero. In analogy to statistics, the center of mass is the mean location of a distribution of mass in space.

  5. Center of excellence - Wikipedia

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    The Auburn Performing Arts Center, Julie and Hal Moore Center for Excellence at Auburn High School (Alabama) is focused on performing arts.. A center of excellence (COE or CoE), also called an excellence center, is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides leadership, best practices, research, support, or training for a focus area.

  6. Basketball positions - Wikipedia

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    The center (C)—also known as the five, the pivot, or the big man—typically plays near the baseline or close to the basket (the "low post"). They are usually the tallest players on the floor. Centers usually score "down low", or "in the paint" (near the basket, in the key), but there have been many centers who are good perimeter shooters as ...

  7. Data center - Wikipedia

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    ARSAT data center (2014). A data center (American English) [1] or data centre (Commonwealth English) [2] [note 1] is a building, a dedicated space within a building, or a group of buildings [3] used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.

  8. Autism - Wikipedia

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    Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder [a] (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive, and inflexible patterns of behavior.

  9. Food court - Wikipedia

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    Typical shopping center food court vendor layout at Centre Eaton in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Pirate Champ's Cafe food court at Port Charlotte High School. A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) [1] is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve ...