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  2. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

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    The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( LACMTA ), branded as Metro, is the county agency that plans, operates, and coordinates funding for most of the public transportation system in Los Angeles County, California, the most populated county in the United States. The agency directly operates a large transit system that ...

  3. Gunmetal - Wikipedia

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    Gunmetal parts. Gun metal, also known as red brass in the United States, is a type of bronze – an alloy of copper, tin, and zinc. Proportions vary but 88% copper, 8–10% tin, and 2–4% zinc is an approximation. Originally used chiefly for making guns, it has largely been replaced by steel for that purpose. Gunmetal casts and machines well ...

  4. R68 (New York City Subway car) - Wikipedia

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    The R68 is a B Division New York City Subway car order consisting of 425 cars built by the Westinghouse-Amrail Company (aka Francorail ), a joint venture of Westinghouse, ANF Industrie, Jeumont Schneider, and Alsthom. The cars were built in France from 1986 to 1988 and shipped through New York Harbor. Of the cars in the fleet, 416 are arranged ...

  5. List of New York City Subway services - Wikipedia

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    Time periods. The New York City Subway is one of the few subways worldwide operating 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. The schedule is divided into different periods, with each containing different operation patterns and train intervals.

  6. Kanban - Wikipedia

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    Kanban ( Japanese: 看板 [kambaɴ] meaning signboard) is a scheduling system for lean manufacturing (also called just-in-time manufacturing, abbreviated JIT). [2] Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota, developed kanban to improve manufacturing efficiency. [3] The system takes its name from the cards that track production within a factory.

  7. Third rail - Wikipedia

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    Description. Third-rail systems are a means of providing electric traction power to trains using an additional rail (called a "conductor rail") for the purpose. On most systems, the conductor rail is placed on the sleeper ends outside the running rails, but in some systems a central conductor rail is used.

  8. MTA1 - Wikipedia

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    MTA1 is a component of several chromatin remodeling complexes including the nucleosome remodeling and deacetylation complex ( NuRD ). [8] [9] MTA1 regulates gene expression by functioning as a coregulator to integrate DNA-interacting factors to gene activity. [10] MTA1 participates in physiological functions in the normal and cancer cells.

  9. Message submission agent - Wikipedia

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    A message submission agent ( MSA ), or mail submission agent, is a computer program or software agent that receives electronic mail messages from a mail user agent (MUA) and cooperates with a mail transfer agent (MTA) for delivery of the mail. It uses ESMTP, a variant of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), as specified in RFC 6409.