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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Firestop pillows are passive fire protection items, used for firestopping holes in wall or floor assemblies required to have a fire-resistance rating. The products must be used in accordance with a valid certification listing, subject to listing and approval use and compliance.Where there are openings that require frequent access for reasons such as cable changes, the need to reseal them effectively through simple means has driven the development of the firestop pillow. The notion of re- enterability, the primary feature of firestop pillows, characterises an unquantified and undocumented measure for the ease...
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A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass or fish steps, is a structure on or around artificial barriers to facilitate diadromous fishes natural migration. Most fishways enable fish to pass around the barriers by swimming and leaping up a series of relatively low steps into the waters on the other side. The velocity of water falling over the steps has to be great enough to attract the fish to the ladder, but it cannot be so great that it washes fish back downstream or exhausts them to the point of inability to continue their journey upriver Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A fishing line is a cord used or made for angling. Important parameters of a fishing line are its length, material, and weight. Factors that may determine what line an angler chooses for a given fishing environment include breaking strength, knot strength, UV resistance, castability, limpness, stretch, abrasion resistance, and visibility. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls. Trawling is a method of fishing that involves actively pulling a trawl through the water behind one or more trawlers. Trawls are fishing nets that are dragged along the bottom of the sea or in midwater at a specified depth. A trawler may also operate two or more trawl nets simultaneously. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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A fishing lure is an object attached to the end of a fishing line which is designed to resemble and move like the prey of a fish. The purpose of the lure is to use movement, vibration, and colour to catch the fish's attention so it bites the hook. Lures are equipped with one or more single, double, or treble hooks that are used to hook fish when they attack the lure. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1306-5972-1
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! FAST, or the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, first proposed in 1994, is a radio telescope to be built by 2013 in a natural basin, Pingtang County near Duyun, capital of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, southwest China. It will have 4,600 panels and be similar in design to the Arecibo Observatory, utilizing a natural hollow (karst) to provide support for the telescope dish. As the name suggests, it will have a diameter of 500m (one li). Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд...
ISBN: 978-6-1340-9709-3
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A flag carrier refers to a transportation company, such as an airline or shipping company, that is locally registered in a given country. They may be state-run, state-owned or state-designated companies or organisations with preferential rights or privileges accorded by the government. Flag carriers may be known as such due to maritime law requiring all aircraft or ships to display the state flag of the country of their registry. A flag carrier (if it is an airline) may also be known as a national airline or a national carrier, although this can have different legal meanings in some countries. The United States is the only country in which the official flag carrier tradition is illegal, because of strict antitrust laws, but it has five...
ISBN: 978-6-1306-8770-0
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Semaphore Flags are a system for conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags, rods, disks, paddles, or occasionally bare or gloved hands. Information is encoded by the position of the flags; it is read when the flag is in a fixed position. Semaphores were adopted and widely used (with hand-held flags replacing the mechanical arms of shutter semaphores) in the maritime world in the early 1800s. Semaphore signals were used, for example, at the Battle of Trafalgar. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...
ISBN: 978-6-1326-2524-3
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Flame tank is a type of tank equipped with a flamethrower, most commonly used to supplement combined arms attacks against fortifications or other obstacles. The type only reached significant use in the Second World War, during which the United States, Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom (including members of the British Commonwealth) all produced flamethrower-equipped tanks. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1341-6871-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A flameout refers to the failure of a jet engine caused by the extinction of the flame in the combustion chamber. It can be caused by a number of factors, including fuel exhaustion; compressor stall; insufficient oxygen supply; foreign object damage (such as birds, hail or even volcanic ash); severe inclement weather; and mechanical failure. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1339-4350-6
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Flaps are hinged surfaces on the trailing edge of the wings of a fixed-wing aircraft. As flaps are extended, the stalling speed of the aircraft is reduced, which means that the aircraft can fly safely at slower speeds (especially during take off and landing). Flaps are also used on the leading edge of the wings of some high-speed jet aircraft, where they may be called Krueger flaps. Extending flaps increases the camber of the wing airfoil, thus raising the maximum lift coefficient. This increase in maximum lift coefficient allows the aircraft to generate a given amount of lift with a slower speed. Therefore, extending the flaps will reduce the stalling speed of the aircraft. Extending flaps also increases drag. This can be beneficial in...
ISBN: 978-6-1306-7490-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A flashtube, also called a flashlamp, is an electric glow discharge lamp designed to produce extremely intense, incoherent, full-spectrum white light for very short durations. Flashtubes are made of a length of glass tubing with electrodes at either end and are filled with a gas that, when triggered, ionizes and conducts a high voltage pulse to produce the light. Flashtubes are used mostly for photographic purposes but are also employed in scientific, medical and industrial applications. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1327-4806-5
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A flat engine is an internal combustion engine with multiple pistons that all move in the horizontal plane. The most popular and significant layout has cylinders arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft, generally known as "boxers". There is a widely-used but technologically less significant form consisting of a straight engine with two, three, four or more cylinders canted 90 degrees into the horizontal plane. The concept of the boxer was patented in 1896 by engineer Karl Benz, eight years after he started producing the world's first successful cars. Flat engines are commonly described as horizontally opposed engines but must not to be confused with opposed-piston engines,...
ISBN: 978-6-1308-1357-4
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A flat-6 or horizontally-opposed-6 is a flat engine with six cylinders arranged horizontally in two banks of three cylinders on each side of a central crankcase. The pistons are mounted to the crankshaft such that opposing pistons move back and forth in opposite directions at the same time, somewhat like a boxing competitor punching their gloves together before a fight, which has led to it being referred to as a boxer engine. The configuration results in inherently good balance of the reciprocating parts, a low center of gravity, and a very short engine length. The layout also lends itself to efficient air cooling. However, it is an intrinsically expensive design to manufacture, and somewhat...
ISBN: 978-6-1338-2425-6
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Fleet Telematics System allow the information exchange between a commercial vehicle fleet and their central authority, i.e., the dispatching office. A FTS typically consists of mobile Vehicle Systems and a stationary Fleet Communication System. The FCS may be a stand alone application maintained by the motor carrier or an internet service running by the supplier of the system. The FCS usually includes a database in which all vehicle positions and messages are stored.Digital maps are often included which allow to visualize vehicle positions and traces. The communication with the FCS is realized by trunked radio, cellular, or satellite communication. Positioning of vehicles is usually realized...
ISBN: 978-6-1307-7106-5
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! En imprimerie, un fleuron est une vignette typographique en forme de fleur ou de feuille stylisees, ornant le titre ou les blancs d'une composition. Cet ornement typographique sert aussi de cul-de-lampe pour marquer la fin d'un chapitre du livre. En reliure, le fleuron est l'ornement qu'on retrouve au dos d'un livre et la marque de l'imprimeur. C'est aussi le nom du fer servant a graver cet ornement. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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The aim of this report is to show, how to embed the bus system FlexRay (FR) into a practical application of motion control. Thereby, the FR is the only connection between the controller and the process. This means, that it is an element of the control loop. The object of this investigation is a test rig in terms of a steer-by-wire hardware model with two FR test boards. Especially, the interrelation between the transport delays of the bus and the scheduling and synchronization of the operating system on each bus node is focused upon. Constant and predictable transport delays can be obtained by synchronizing the operating systems on each node to the bus. This is implemented with the FR communication controller requesting interrupts...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-2985-7
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In den heutigen Volkswirtschaften wird in nahezu jedem Industriebereich Schuttgut produziert oder verarbeitet, gelagert oder transportiert, verbraucht oder verfahrenstechnisch umgewandelt. Beim Handling von Schuttgutern spielen die Fliesseigenschaften eine wichtige Rolle. Von der ersten Prozessstufe an wird man mit dem Fliessverhalten konfrontiert. Dieses wird durch externe Faktoren wie Wandmaterial und/oder Dimensionierung des Silotrichters aber auch den Schuttguteigenschaften wie Haftkrafte und Adsorptionsvermogen beeinfusst. Der Verschlechterung der Fliesseigenschaften von Schuttgutern aufgrund von Feuchteadsorption kann durch Beschichtung entgegengewirkt werden. Der Autor beschreibt die Grundlagen der Schuttgutmechanik und deren...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-6991-4
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A Flight Level (FL) is a standard nominal altitude of an aircraft, in hundreds of feet. This altitude is calculated from the International standard pressure datum of 1013.25 hPa (29.92 inHg), the average sea-level pressure, and therefore is not necessarily the same as the aircraft's true altitude either above mean sea level or above ground level. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Flight is the process by which an object moves, through an atmosphere (especially the air) or beyond it (as in the case of spaceflight), by generating aerodynamic lift, propulsive thrust, aerostatically using buoyancy, or by ballistic movement, without direct support from any surface.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Flight Information Display system is a computer system used in airports to display flight information to passengers, in which a computer system controls mechanical or electronic display boards or TV screens in order to display arrivals and departures flight information in real-time. The displays are located inside or around an airport terminal. A virtual version of a FIDS can also be found on most airport websites and teletext systems. In large airports, there are different sets of FIDS for each terminal or even each major airline. FID systems are used to assist passengers during air travel and people who want to pick-up passengers after the flight. Данное издание не...
ISBN: 978-6-1326-5190-7
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A flight recorder is a recorder placed in an aircraft for the purpose of facilitating the investigation of an aircraft accident or incident. For this reason, recorders are required to be capable of surviving the conditions likely to be encountered in a severe aircraft accident. They are typically specified to withstand an impact of 3400 g and temperatures of over 1,000 °C (1,832 °F) (as required by EUROCAE ED-112). There are two common types of flight recorder, the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR). In some cases, the two recorders may be combined in a single FDR/CVR unit....
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