The Human Connectome Project has therefore developed a database called ConnectomeDB to make sharing of brain images much easier.

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Froman, the NRA board member, said she'd like to see more sharing of resources to ensure a database of the mentally ill would prevent them from having access to guns.

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As the "host organ procurement organization, " LifeQuest was responsible for the quality of the organs it offered when it posted their availability on a national database maintained by the United Network for Organ Sharing.

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But an international database is only is only one of the possible ways of sharing DNA information internationally.

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In a move both clever and magnanimous, the photo sharing service has figured out how to use their own user database to allow Instagram images to be easily shared on Twitter.

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Ryan Tagal, who is building the database, says it is uphill work, because hedge-fund managers are not in the habit of sharing information.

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Assuming that all drivers who own smartphones have enabled data-sharing, all those endpoints drifting around in traffic are sending a stream of coordinates to a central database in real time.

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