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BCV
BCV could refer to: Transport * Balaclava railway station, Melbourne * Bruce Grove railway station, London, England Airports * Birchwood Airport (FAA LID code), an airport near Birchwood, Alaska * Hector Silva Airstrip (IATA code), Belmopan, Belize Banks * Central Bank of Venezuela ** BCV Building, headquarters of the bank, Caracas, Venezuela * Banque cantonale vaudoise, which is a bank in Switzerland Science and medicine * Beclabuvir, an antiviral drug for the treatment of hepatitis C virus * Bovine coronavirus, an RNA virus Other uses * Bain Capital Ventures, the venture capital division of Bain Capital * ''BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles'', a fighting game for the PlayStation 2 * BCV Volley Cup, former name of the Montreux Volley Masters women's volleyball tournament, Switzerland * Bristol Commercial Vehicles, a subsidiary of Bristol Tramways * Bulgnéville Contrex Vittel FC (BCV), a French football club * Business continuance volume * GLV/BCV or BCV, the callsign of a TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise
The Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV) is the cantonal bank of the Swiss Canton of Vaud. Headquartered in Lausanne, it is Vaud's biggest bank by balance sheet. BCV is a universal bank providing retail banking, corporate banking, wealth management, and trading services. Activities In the 1990s, several cantonal banks attempted to increase growth outside of their local and cantonal state borders. The expansion strategy of the BCV during this period with Greece and Hong Kong resulted in billions of dollars in losses. In the past, the Swiss taxpayer regularly paid for the damage incurred, even though a cantonal bank, as in the case of the BCV, never had a state guarantee. In a BCV press release, published in 2011, it was stated that an office was to be opened in Zurich. With its presence in Zurich, BCV Asset Management is driving the expansion of its institutional business in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. In an interview with the newspaper ''Le Temps'' on Sept. 15th 2015, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GLV/BCV
GLV and BCV are Australian television stations licensed to serve Traralgon, Bendigo and the region of Victoria. The stations are owned and operated by Network 10. History Early years GLV-10 in Traralgon was the first regional television station to launch in Australia on 9 December 1961, originally covering the Gippsland and Latrobe Valley areas. It was also the first station to completely use Australian-made broadcasting equipment from AWA. The original transmission equipment consisted of a 10 kW and 2 kW transmitter (standby) which was based on the RCA product and adapted to 230 V 50 Hz by AWA. The Melbourne pickup was a Rhode and Schwarz off-air receiver with AWA return microwave links to the studio. BCV-8 first went to air two weeks later, on 23 December 1961(the same day as the launch of GMV-6 Shepparton), serving Bendigo and Central Victoria. On 25 March 1970, BCV-8 was off the air for 45 minutes. The incident was caused by two mice who got into the tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Bank Of Venezuela
The Central Bank of Venezuela (, BCV) is the central bank of Venezuela. It is responsible for issuing and maintaining the value of the Venezuelan bolívar and is the governing agent of the Venezuelan Clearing House System (including an automated Clearing house (finance), clearing house). History Foundation and currency management Since its inception in the late 1930s, the BCV was given a clear mandate to control the monetary policy of the nation, centralizing the operations of a handful of private banks that used to mint the Venezuelan currency, the Venezuelan bolívar, bolívar. For almost 50 years the BCV managed to sustain a remarkable strong currency, with inflation rates hovering on the 2-3% mark during that period. 1980s oil glut However, since the oil glut of the 1980s and the first serious devaluation of the currency in 1983 (known in Venezuela as ''Viernes Negro'', or Black Friday) the bolívar has been plagued with chronic instability, mistrust and declining value t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hector Silva Airstrip
Hector Silva airstrip''is an airport located in Cayo District serving Belmopan, the capital city of Belize. The runway is on the northern edge of the city off the George Price Highway, and has a small terminal building. Belize Defence Forces use the airstrip for temporary landing facilities for their aircraft. It was expanded by the British army in 2002, in order to accept larger planes such as the Lockheed C-130 Hercules. The Belize VOR-DME In radio navigation, a VOR/DME is a radio beacon that combines a VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) with a distance-measuring equipment (DME). The VOR allows the receiver to measure its Bearing (navigation), bearing to or from the beacon, while the D ... (Ident: BZE) is located northeast of the runway. Airline and destinations At the moment (May 2024), there are no scheduled services to Belmopan. See also * * * Transport in Belize * List of airports in Belize References External linksOpenStreetMap - Belmopan [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birchwood Airport
Birchwood Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northwest of the central business district of Birchwood (also known as Chugiak), in the Anchorage Municipality of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 450 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2010, an increase of 20% from the 375 enplanements in 2009. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''general aviation'' airport. Facilities and aircraft Birchwood Airport covers an area of 196 acres (79 ha) at an elevation of 83 feet (25 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 1L/19R is 4,008 by 100 feet (1,222 x 30 m) with an asphalt surface; 1R/19L is 1,802 by 50 feet (549 x 15 m) with an asphalt and gravel surface. There are 292 aircraft based at this airport: 94% single-engine, 2% multi-engine, 1% helicopter, 1% glider, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol Commercial Vehicles
Bristol Commercial Vehicles was a vehicle manufacturer located in Bristol, England. Most production was of buses but trucks and railbus chassis were also built. The Bristol Omnibus Company, Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company started to build buses for its own use in 1908 and soon started building vehicles for other companies. In 1955 this part of the business was separated out as Bristol Commercial Vehicles Limited. It closed in 1983 when production was moved to its then parent company Leyland Bus, Leyland. History The first trams of the Bristol Tramways Company ran in 1875, and in 1906 the company started to operate motor buses to bring extra passengers to their trams. In 1908 the company decided to build bus chassis for its own use, the first one entering service on 12 May. The Motor Department was initially based at the tram depot in Brislington, on the road that leads east from Bristol to Bath. The Car Building Works there had been responsible for erecting electric tram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Business Continuance Volume
In disk arrays, a business continuance volume (BCV) is EMC Corporation's term for an independently addressable copy of a data volume, that uses advanced mirroring technique for business continuity purposes. Use BCVs can be detached from the active data storage at a point in time and mounted on non-critical servers to facilitate offline backup or parallel computing. Once offline processes are completed, these BCVs can be either: * discarded * used as a source to recover the production data * re-attached (re-synchronized) to the production data again Types There are two types of BCVs: * A clone BCV is a traditional method, and uses one-to-one separate physical storage (splitable disk mirror) ** least impact on production performance ** high cost of the additional storage ** persistent usage * A snapshot BCV, that uses copy on write Copy may refer to: *Copying or the product of copying (including the plural "copies"); the duplication of information or an artifact **Cut, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Construction Vehicles
''BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles'', known in Japan as , is a non-traditional fighting video game for the PlayStation 2 game console, where the player must battle in various construction vehicles. The game was only released in Europe and Japan. It was also one of the first PlayStation 2 titles to be released in DVD-ROM format, rather than CD-ROM as most early PS2 titles were. The story in this game revolves around the player settling construction site contracts through vehicular combat with various rival companies over the course of 16 levels. The player uses vehicles commonly found on construction sites like diggers and bulldozers. Additional characters can be unlocked by playing the story. The European release notably gives the characters English accents. Reception German ''GamePro Magazine'' commended the game's concept as a "excavator-em up", but criticized the vehicles as "sluggish", the controls not being easy to understand and the game's lack of sharpness in the game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BCV Building
The BCV Building (also known as Central Bank of Venezuela Building) is an office building located on Avenida Urdaneta, Caracas, Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ... and is the headquarters of the Banco Central de Venezuela. It is also the largest funder of the city and covers 27.000 m2 at street level. The building was completed in 1965 and was opened the same year; a second compound was built in 1967, which is a tower that reaches 117 meters high and has 26 floors. References * Skyscraper office buildings in Venezuela Buildings and structures in Caracas Office buildings completed in 1967 {{Venezuela-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Grove Railway Station
Bruce Grove is a station on the Weaver line of the London Overground, located in central Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey, north London. It is down the line from Liverpool Street station, London Liverpool Street and is situated between and stations. Its three-letter station code is BCV and it is in List of stations in London fare zone 3, Travelcard zone 3. History Bruce Grove was originally a stop on the Stoke Newington & Edmonton Railway and opened on 22 July 1872. Today it is on the Seven Sisters branch of the Lea Valley lines and sees four Weaver line trains per hour to Liverpool Street and two to either or . The station is not far from Bruce Castle and takes its name from a road forming part of the A10 road (England), A10. In the early 1980s several changes were made to the appearance of the station. The wooden covered staircases to both platforms were replaced by open-air concrete staircases. The London-bound platform roof was shortened and the waiting roo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bovine Coronavirus
Bovine coronavirus (BCV or BCoV) is a coronavirus which is a member of the species '' Betacoronavirus gravedinis''. The infecting virus is an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus which enters its host cell by binding to the N-acetyl-9-O-acetylneuraminic acid receptor. Infection causes calf enteritis and contributes to the enzootic pneumonia complex in calves. It can also cause winter dysentery in adult cattle. It can infect both domestic and wild ruminants and has a worldwide distribution. Transmission is horizontal, via oro-fecal or respiratory routes. Like other coronaviruses from genus '' Betacoronavirus,'' subgenus '' Embecovirus'', it has a surface protein called hemagglutinin esterase (HE) in addition to the four structural proteins shared by all coronaviruses ( spike, membrane, nucleocapsid, and envelope proteins). Virology BCoV has 95% similarity with human coronavirus OC43 and 93% to porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus. According to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BCVS
David Brine Pritchard (19 October 1919 – 12 December 2005)''David Pritchard.'' The Times (London). Features; p. 66. 17 January 2006. was a British chess player, chess writer and indoor games consultant. He gained pre-eminence as an indoor games and mind sports consultant, a role that he in effect created. A natural games player, it was to him that inventors or publishers would turn to organise a championship of a new game, write about it or generally promote it. Though nearly a million copies of his chess books have been sold, Pritchard is best known for authoring ''The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants'', in which he describes more than 1400 different variants. In addition to authoring books on games, Pritchard was editor of ''Games & Puzzles'' magazine from 1972 to 1981. He was also a games director for the Mind Sports Organisation, and president of the British Chess Variants Society. Biography During and after the Second World War Pritchard was an RAF pilot who served mainly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
