ClusterSeven offers similar controls for the Microsoft Access Database, which is tucked away in thousands of organizations running vital departmental tasks, often little known to anyone outside the group.
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It claims the software creates a virtual topographical map of your features, which is then measured against the donor database, looking for similar surface textures, vector templating and, of course size of features.
Many of the countries on this list are similar to those named in the IRRC database.
The substance of the search terms appears similar, but it is possible that database output would differ.
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But the police can also program the search to look for partial matches, identifying profiles that are similar but not identical to those in the database.
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This week, the EU decided to take a similar approach with immigrants, launching a centralised fingerprint database to try to stop asylum-seekers applying for refuge in more than one EU country.
By combining its existing 1m names (gathered from people who had responded to previous offers on tinned goods) with lists of similar households bought from brokers, Heinz has built up a database of 4.6m people to send a copy of At Home, a free magazine of recipes which also promotes its products.
And when he ran the profile he had assembled through a database of known collagens, he found it was most similar to the versions found in chickens and ostriches substantiating Dr Schweitzer's antibody-based hunch.
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Taking that proposal a step further, he suggests that Uncle Sam could adopt a system similar to California's "ReadyReturn" program, where taxpayers can log on to a database and see the government's estimate for their tax returns based on historical and wage information.
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