FVC Ratio
FVC may refer to: * Fair Vote Canada, an electoral reform advocacy group in Canada * Ferraz de Vasconcelos (CPTM), a railway station in Brazil * Financial vehicle corporation in the European Union * Fingerprint Verification Competition * FIRST Vex Challenge, a high school robotics competition * Forced vital capacity * Fortuneo–Vital Concept, a French cycling team * Forth Valley College Forth Valley College is a college of further education located in Scotland. The college was established in 2005 from the merger of Falkirk College and Clackmannan College.

Fair Vote Canada
Fair Vote Canada (FVC) (french: Represéntation équitable au Canada) is a grassroots, nonprofit, multi-partisan citizens' movement for electoral reform in Canada. Headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, it promotes the introduction of an element of proportional representation for elections at all levels of government and throughout civil society, instead of the first-past-the-post electoral system currently used at all levels of government in Canada. Purpose Its aim is "to gain broad, multi-partisan support for an independent, citizen-driven process to allow Canadians to choose a fair voting system based on the principles that all voters are equal, and that every vote must count." Fair Vote Canada does not advocate for any particular form of proportional representation, but has been involved in the design and discussion of different models from a made-in-Canada perspective. It has worked to mobilize its supporters in support of proportional representation in the context of severa ...
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Ferraz De Vasconcelos (CPTM)
Ferraz de Vasconcelos is a train station on CPTM Line 11-Coral, located in the city of Ferraz de Vasconcelos. History The station was built by Santa Branca Farm, owner of Romanópolis company and delivered to Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil (EFCB) on 29 July 1926. It was named Ferraz de Vasconcelos after José Ferraz de Vasconcellos, chief of 2nd Traffic District of EFCB, who died in 1924. The station gave rise to the homonymous city, and in 1944 received a new building, which was reformed and delivered by RFFSA The Rede Ferroviária Federal, Sociedade Anônima (RFFSA, pronounced as ''Refesa'') () was the State-owned national railway company of Brazil created from ''Brazilian Federal Law #3.115'' on March 16, 1957, after several railroads were nationaliz ... on 27 August 1983. In 1994, the station was transferred to CPTM. Projects CPTM is currently modernizing its lines, in which was included the rebuilt of Ferraz de Vasconcelos station. In mid-2011, a temporary station wa ...
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Financial Vehicle Corporation
A special-purpose entity (SPE; or, in Europe and India, special-purpose vehicle/SPV; or, in some cases in each EU jurisdiction, FVC, financial vehicle corporation) is a legal entity (usually a limited company of some type or, sometimes, a limited partnership) created to fulfill narrow, specific or temporary objectives. SPEs are typically used by companies to isolate the firm from financial risk. A formal definition is "The Special Purpose Entity is a fenced organization having limited predefined purposes and a legal personality". Normally a company will transfer assets to the SPE for management or use the SPE to finance a large project thereby achieving a narrow set of goals without putting the entire firm at risk. SPEs are also commonly used in complex financings to separate different layers of equity infusion. Commonly created and registered in tax havens, SPEs allow tax avoidance strategies unavailable in the home district. Round-tripping is one such strategy. In addition, th ...
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Fingerprint Verification Competition
{{Short description, International competition for fingerprint verification algorithms The Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC) is an international competition for fingerprint verification algorithms organized in 2000 by thBiometric System Laboratory (University of Bologna) the U.S. National Biometric Test Center (San Jose State University) and thPattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory (Michigan State University) After the success of the first editionFVC2000, three other editions were organized every two yearsFVC2002FVC2004
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FVC2006
. These events received great attention both from academic and industrial biometric communities. They established a common benchmark, allowing developers to unambiguously compare their algorithms, and provided an overview ...
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FIRST Vex Challenge
FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), formerly known as FIRST Vex Challenge, is a robotics competition for students in grades 7–12 to compete head to head, by designing, building, and programming a robot to compete in an alliance format against other teams. FIRST Tech Challenge is the one of the four major robotics programs organized by ''FIRST'', which its other three programs include FIRST Lego League Explore, FIRST Lego League Challenge, and FIRST Robotics Competition. The competition consists of local and regional qualifiers and the world championship, the FIRST Championship, and in every season, a kickoff is held to showcase the season's theme and game. After kickoff, robots are designed, built, and programmed by teams, and teams are encouraged to conduct outreach with their communities. Local qualifiers are held for teams to compete and qualify for regional qualifiers, and from that point, regional qualifiers are held for teams to qualify for the world championship. The robot ...
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Forced Vital Capacity
Spirometry (meaning ''the measuring of breath'') is the most common of the pulmonary function tests (PFTs). It measures lung function, specifically the amount (volume) and/or speed (flow) of air that can be inhaled and exhaled. Spirometry is helpful in assessing breathing patterns that identify conditions such as asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, and COPD. It is also helpful as part of a system of health surveillance, in which breathing patterns are measured over time. Spirometry generates pneumotachographs, which are charts that plot the volume and flow of air coming in and out of the lungs from one inhalation and one exhalation. Indications Spirometry is indicated for the following reasons: * to diagnose or manage asthma * to detect respiratory disease in patients presenting with symptoms of breathlessness, and to distinguish respiratory from cardiac disease as the cause * to measure bronchial responsiveness in patients suspected of having asthma * to diagnose and ...
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Forth Valley College
Forth Valley College is a college of further education located in Scotland. The college was established in 2005 from the merger of Falkirk College and Clackmannan College.Forth Valley College - College Review - 25 May 2012
, 25 May 2012. Education Scotland. Retrieved 11 July 2012. It currently operates from three main campuses in , and . The college previously operated within a community campus in the