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2. Tzipi Livni - Wikipedia

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   Tel Aviv, Israel. Signature. Tziporah Malka " Tzipi " Livni ( Hebrew: ציפי (ציפורה) מלכה לבני‎, pronounced [tsipoˈʁa malˈka ˈtsipi ˈlivni]; born 8 July 1958) is an Israeli politician, diplomat, and lawyer. A former member of the Knesset and leader in the center-left political camp, Livni is a former foreign minister ...

3. Zipper - Wikipedia

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   Zipper. A zipper, zip, fly, or Monster Holder, formerly known as a clasp locker, is a commonly used device for binding together two edges of fabric or other flexible material. Used in clothing (e.g. jackets and jeans ), luggage and other bags, camping gear (e.g. tents and sleeping bags ), and many other items, zippers come in a wide range of ...

4. ZIP (file format) - Wikipedia

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   A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the most common. This format was originally created in 1989 and was first implemented in PKWARE, Inc. 's PKZIP utility, [2] as a replacement for the previous ARC compression ...

5. Talon Zipper - Wikipedia

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   Talon Zipper. Talon was the first slide fastener, a/k/a zipper, manufacturing company. It was founded in 1893 as the Universal Fastener Company, manufacturing hookless fasteners for shoes. In 1913 it moved to Meadville, Pennsylvania, becoming the first manufacturer of zippers. The company flourished through the 1960s when it is estimated that ...

6. Barrier transfer machine - Wikipedia

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   Road Zipper machine at the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. A barrier transfer machine, also known as zipper machine or road zipper, is a type of heavy vehicle that is used to transfer concrete lane dividers, such as Jersey barriers, in order to relieve traffic congestion during rush hours. Many other cities use them temporarily ...

7. Zipper system - Wikipedia

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   The zipper system, also known as "vertical parity" or the "zebra system", [1] [2] is an electoral mechanism intended to enforce gender parity in countries using party-list proportional representation with closed lists. It requires that parties alternate between candidates of either gender on their candidate lists, meaning that 50% of the ...

8. Leucine zipper - Wikipedia

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   Leucine zipper. "Overhead view", or helical wheel diagram, of a leucine zipper, where d represents leucine, arranged with other amino acids on two parallel alpha helices. A leucine zipper (or leucine scissors [1]) is a common three-dimensional structural motif in proteins. They were first described by Landschulz and collaborators in 1988 [2 ...

9. Zipper (data structure) - Wikipedia

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   A zipper is a technique of representing an aggregate data structure so that it is convenient for writing programs that traverse the structure arbitrarily and update its contents, especially in purely functional programming languages. The zipper was described by Gérard Huet in 1997. [1] It includes and generalizes the gap buffer technique ...