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The Global Competitiveness Report ( GCR) [ 1] was a yearly report published by the World Economic Forum. Between 2004 and 2020, [ 2] the Global Competitiveness Report ranked countries based on the Global Competitiveness Index, [ 1] developed by Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Elsa V. Artadi. [ 3] Before that, the macroeconomic ranks were based on ...
Group coded recording. In computer science, group coded recording or group code recording ( GCR) refers to several distinct but related encoding methods for representing data on magnetic media. The first, used in 6250 bpi magnetic tape since 1973, [1] [2] is an error-correcting code combined with a run-length limited (RLL) encoding scheme ...
The Great Central Railway was the first railway granted a coat of arms.It was granted on 25 February 1898 by the Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy Kings of Arms as: . Argent on a cross gules voided of the field between two wings in chief sable and as many daggers erect, in base of the second, in the fesse point a morion winged of the third, on a chief also of the second a pale of the first thereon ...
Gas-cooled reactor. A gas-cooled reactor (GCR) is a nuclear reactor that uses graphite as a neutron moderator and a gas ( carbon dioxide or helium in extant designs) as coolant. [ 1] Although there are many other types of reactor cooled by gas, the terms GCR and to a lesser extent gas cooled reactor are particularly used to refer to this type ...
The Great Central Main Line ( GCML ), also known as the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR), is a former railway line in the United Kingdom. The line was opened in 1899 and built by the Great Central Railway running from Sheffield in the North of England, southwards through Nottingham and Leicester to ...
Originally arriving at the GCR to attend the winter steam gala in 2014, an agreement was made between its owners and the Director of the GCR which saw 92214 become part of the GCR fleet permanently. Acquired by the David Clarke Railway Trust in January 2023. Withdrawn from service in February 2024. [6] David Clarke Railway Trust
A Charity called the GCR Rolling Stock Trust based at the Great Central Railway (Nottingham) owns the third largest (after the Bluebell Railway and Isle of Wight Steam Railway) collection of pre-grouping rolling stock known to exist in the UK, including the famous 'Barnum' carriages (so named as these were the type hired by P.T. Barnum's ...
The GCR Class 1 was a class of steam locomotives designed by John G. Robinson for the Great Central Railway, and introduced to service between December 1912 and 1913. In the 1923 grouping, they all passed to the London and North Eastern Railway which placed them in class B2. Their classification was changed to B19 in 1945, and all had been ...