The Maori Land Court has also created electronic copies within its database, the Maori Land Information System for the public to use at Maori Land Court registries.

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The National Motor Vehicle Information system (NMVTIS) database was implemented in January.

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Beforehand, border agents would only verify a student's status in a database, the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, when the person was referred to a second officer for additional inspection or questioning.

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The truth is that, for the price of an intern with minimal spreadsheeting skills, any anti-fracking group could have created its own database from the information entered into the FracFocus system from the day it went live.

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The plan also includes innovative tactics and cutting-edge tools, like geographic information-system maps that combine cartography and database technology to help locate children who have not been reached by vaccinators.

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The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) is an open, online database and tool on the biodiversity, geographic distribution and abundance of marine life.

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Alliance Tech's founders, Roger Lewis, 48, Timothy Blackwood, 46, and Arturo Borrego, 44, get lots of questions about invasion of privacy but insist that their system avoids snooping by storing any personal information in a separate database.

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The database will either provide the alum's contact information or allow you to contact him or her via an internal messaging system.

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To provide answers that aren't already in Google's ever-expanding database, the company will blend new semantic-search technology with its current system to better recognize the value of information on websites and figure out which ones to show in search results.

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