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INFO: Full form for CAE is Component Acquisition Executive in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for BPS is Ballistic Protection Series in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for BPS is Battlefield Planning System in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for BPS is Browning Pump Shotgun in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for BPS is Bullets Per Second in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for ASMP is Army Survival Measures Plan in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for ASMP is Army Space Master Plan in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for ASMP is Army Strategic Mobility Program in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for ARP is Anti-radiation Projectile in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for ARP is Air Raid Patrol in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for ARP is Ammunition Refilling Point in Military and Defence category
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Air Raid Precautions (ARP) refers to a number of organisations and guidelines in the United Kingdom dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air raids. Government consideration for air raid precautions increased in the 1920s and 30s, with the Raid Wardens' Service set up in 1937 to report on bombing incidents. Every local council was responsible for organising ARP wardens, messengers, ambulance drivers, rescue parties, and liaison with police and fire brigades.

From 1 September 1939, ARP wardens enforced the "blackout". Heavy curtains and shutters were required on all private residences, commercial premises, and factories to prevent light escaping and so making them a possible marker for enemy bombers to locate their targets.

With increased enemy bombing during the Blitz, the ARP services were central in reporting and dealing with bombing incidents. They managed the air raid sirens and ensured people were directed to shelters. Women were involved in ARP services through the Women's Voluntary Service.

The Auxiliary Fire Service was set up in 1938 to support existing local fire services, which were amalgamated into a National Fire Service in 1941.

From 1941 the ARP officially changed its title to Civil Defence Service to reflect the wider range of roles it then encompassed. During the war almost 7,000 Civil Defence workers were killed. In all some 1.5 million men and women served within the organisation during World War Two. Over 127,000 full-time personnel were involved at the height of the Blitz but by the end of 1943 this had dropped to 70,000. The Civil Defence Service was stood down towards the end of the war in Europe on 2 May 1945.

Between 1949 and 1968 many of the duties of the Civil Defence Service were resurrected through the Civil Defence Corps.

INFO: Full form for ARP is Air Raid Place in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for ARP is Air Refueling Point in Military and Defence category
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The Air Force Interoperability Council or AFIC is an organisation tasked with enhancing coalition military aviation amongst the "Five Eyes" countries, which consist of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and United States. AFIC consists of representatives from the Royal Air Force (RAF), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), United States Air Force (USAF) and the United States Navy (USN). The organisation has a permanent management committee based in Washington DC.

In particular, AFIC focuses on improved war-fighting capabilities, by maximising interoperability. AFIC and its precursor, the Air Standardization Coordination Committee (ASCC), have worked to further each country's capabilities for combined operations, as well as providing mutual day-to-day compatibility in some areas, such as the capability for particular aircraft types to be cross-serviced. the management committee, with the additional cooperation of experts from members countries' defence departments, oversees the execution of AFIC’s official "Vision", "Mission" and "Task". AFIC's primary publication outputs are Air Standards, Advisory Publications and Information Publications, which seek to increase operational effectiveness through by describing common technical specifications, interoperability objectives and/or tactics, techniques, procedures (TTPs).

INFO: Full form for ASIC is All Source Intelligence Center in Military and Defence category
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Active shape models (ASMs) are statistical models of the shape of objects which iteratively deform to fit to an example of the object in a new image, developed by Tim Cootes and Chris Taylor in 1995. The shapes are constrained by the PDM (point distribution model) Statistical Shape Model to vary only in ways seen in a training set of labelled examples.

The shape of an object is represented by a set of points (controlled by the shape model). The ASM algorithm aims to match the model to a new image.

The ASM works by alternating the following steps:

The technique has been widely used to analyse images of faces, mechanical assemblies and medical images (in 2D and 3D).

It is closely related to the active appearance model. It is also known as a "Smart Snakes" method, since it is an analog to an active contour model which would respect explicit shape constraints.

INFO: Full form for ASM is Anti-ship Missile in Military and Defence category
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