This includes manning X-ray machines, searching people, searching vehicles and operating closed-circuit television systems, he said.
In the lobbies of tourist hotels, x-ray machines frame the entrances, bags are searched by smiling apologetic officials.
In Amsterdam, metal detectors and X-ray machines were in place, but the advanced scanning technology was not available.
The tax will hit everything they sell, from x-ray machines and pacemakers to surgical tools and artificial hips.
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They are simply being chucked into their role on x-ray machines, public screening areas and even athlete screening areas.
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Armed guards and sniffer dogs have been posted at both hotels and X-ray machines are to screen guests' bags.
He found x-ray machines that were obsolete and likely to be delivering much higher doses of radiation to patients.
The same kind of approach lay behind a generation of "array processors" used in computerized X-ray machines and seismic analyzers.
The department recently launched a pilot program, for example, to use X-ray machines to test passengers and their luggage for explosives.
In the maze of streets surrounding the Jokhang, soldiers and police man checkpoints and carry out brusque searches with metal detectors and X-ray machines.
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Transportation Security Administration agents at airports use x-ray machines to strip us of any vestige of privacy or modesty about our own bodies.
The X-ray machines that screen passenger baggage have a patchy record.
Its chips are in products from set-top boxes to X-ray machines.
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The practice includes hard assets like chairs and x-ray machines, but it also has a customer base that religiously returns every six months for a cleaning.
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It said staff were using drug dogs and X-ray machines to disrupt the supply of drugs into the jail and could also call on specially-trained dog handlers.
Visitors are met with airport-style x-ray machines at all entrances, followed by electronic scanners which read your identity badge and pull up your profile on a screen.
Plastic wrap and glue had been used to try to confuse sniffer dogs, and carbon paper was used to try to dull the perception of X-ray machines.
The Primrose Breast Care Centre at Derriford is one of the first in the country to install the 3D tomosynthesis upgrade to one of its mammomat X-ray machines.
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His wife Liz told BBC Radio Kent he had been well looked after and that mobile X-ray machines had been brought into a dressing room to check their injuries.
Several Olympic security guards have come forward to reveal organizers yet to provide work schedules, hand out uniforms, or train staff to use x-ray machines to detect bombs and firearms.
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It also closed the private Spanish Hospital, a complex that covers an entire city block, after waters rushed into the basement, cutting power and destroying X-ray machines and other diagnostic equipment.
The staff were supposed to be doing tasks including venue perimeter security such as manning X-ray machines, searching people, searching vehicles, and operating closed-circuit television systems, G4S told CNN on Sunday.
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Ter Horst said that security measures in place in Amsterdam were metal detectors and X-ray machines, and admitted they could not have picked up the explosive material that AbdulMullatab was allegedly carrying.
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As with many other products--including tungsten-filament lightbulbs, X-ray machines and jet engines--GE bought patents from an inventor to get into the turbine business, then refined the design and manufacturing techniques ( see time line).
Washington (CNN) -- Studies by the U.S. government and professional organizations conclude the level of radiation emitted by full-body airport scanners is safe for passengers, according to a Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report, but the findings likely will not end the dispute over backscatter X-ray machines.
In addition, if you want to avoid X-ray screening machines, check which lanes, if any, feed into metal detectors instead of full-body scanning machines.
His first company--launched in his mid 20s--made software for X-ray imaging machines and, later, for laptop computers that helped field technicians troubleshoot glitches in large equipment made by the likes of Xerox and Siemens.
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X-ray and ultrasound machines, helped by earnings from Mr Zhou's sideline business growing flowers and trees.
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