High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In physics, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that deals with fluid flow—the natural science of fluids (liquids and gases) in motion. It has several subdisciplines itself, including aerodynamics (the study of air and other gases in motion) and hydrodynamics (the study of liquids in motion). Fluid dynamics has a wide range of applications, including calculating forces and moments on aircraft, determining the mass flow rate of petroleum through pipelines, predicting weather patterns, understanding nebulae in interstellar space and reportedly modeling fission weapon detonation. Some of its principles are even used in traffic engineering, where traffic is treated as a...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fluorescent glucose biosensors are devices which measure the concentration of glucose in diabetic patients by means of sensitive protein which relay the concentration by means of fluorescence, an alternative to amperometric sension of glucose. No device has yet entered the medical market but due to the prevalence of diabetes, it is the prime drive in the construction of fluorescent biosensors. 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 flush toilet is a toilet that disposes of human waste by using water to flush it through a drainpipe to another location. Flushing mechanisms are found more often on western toilets (used in the sitting position), but many squat toilets also are made for automated flushing. Modern toilets incorporate an 'S','U', 'J', or 'P' shaped bend that causes the water in the toilet bowl to collect and act as a seal against sewer gases. Since flush toilets are typically not designed to handle waste on site, their drain pipes must be connected to waste conveyance and waste treatment systems. As with many inventions, the...
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Paper is a common product that is part of everyday lives. In the printing of some magazine grades, a defect can be generated called "fluting". This defect is waviness around some images that appear in the machine direction. This defect can be controlled to some extent from empirical experience, but a good understanding of basic mechanisms that involve fluting and factors affecting it can help in reducing it to large extent.I have developed a novel technique to characterize this waviness and studies involved using my laser technique method showed that heat and moisture changes can cause fluting and no tension is required to generate flutes. I thank Dr. Douglas Bousfield and University of Maine for giving me this opportunity. Данное...
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This book is a revised and extended version of the author's doctoral dissertation written in the framework of the International Doctoral Course on "Risk Management in the Built Environment", jointly held by the University of Florence, Italy and TU Braunschweig, Germany. Modern bridges are sensitive to wind loads and aeroelastic phenomena due to the tendency to design always lighter and more flexible structures. Flutter instability is a particularly concerning issue as it can provoke the collapse of the bridge. In this work aerodynamic derivatives are considered as random variables and flutter is probabilistically approached via Monte-Carlo simulation. For this purpose a bridge deck model was experimentally studied in the CRIACIV wind...
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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 fly system is a system of ropes, counterweights, pulleys, and other related devices within a theatre that enables a technical crew to quickly move components such as curtains, lights, and set pieces on and off stage by moving them vertically between the stage and the large opening above the stage. This is in contrast to the other two types of theatrical component transport systems, scenery wagons and stage lifts, which are only used to move set pieces and which do so without utilizing the space above the stage. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The flyback converter is used in both AC/DC and DC/DC conversion with a galvanic isolation between the input and any outputs. More precisely, the flyback converter is a buck-boost converter with the inductor split to form a transformer, so that the voltage ratios are multiplied with an additional advantage of isolation. When driving for example a plasma lamp or a voltage multiplier the rectifying diode of the Buck-Boost converter is left out and the device is called a flyback transformer. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Flying Cloud of 1851 was the most famous of the extreme clippers built by Donald McKay. She was built in East Boston, Massachusetts, and intended for Enoch Train of Boston, who paid $50,000 for her construction. The Flying Cloud was purchased at launching by Grinnell, Minturn Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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Flying squirrels, scientifically known as Pteromyini or Petauristini, are a tribe of 44 species of squirrels Flying squirrels are incapable of sustained flight, instead they glide between trees, with flights recorded to 90 meters.The direction and speed of the animal in midair is varied by changing the positions of its two arms and legs, largely controlled by small cartilaginous wrist bones.This changes the tautness of the patagium, a furry parachute-like membrane that stretches from wrist to ankle. It has a fluffy tail that stabilizes in flight. The tail acts as an adjunct airfoil, working as an air brake before landing on a tree trunk. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Flying Officer chronograph wristwatch, designed and manufactured in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland by Gallet 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. Flying Spur was a British Tea Clipper, built of teak and greenheart in 1860. For twenty years, Flying Spur sailed with cargoes of tea between London and the Chinese port of Foochow, with voyages to Canton, Nagasaki, and Deal as well. 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. The Consolidated line, or C-line, was a series of diesel-electric railway locomotive designs produced by Fairbanks-Morse and its Canadian licensee, the Canadian Locomotive Company. Individual locomotives in this series were commonly referred to as “C- liners”. A combined total of 165 units (123 cab- equipped lead A units and 42 cabless booster B units) were produced by F-M and the CLC between 1950 and 1955. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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Registration is required to integrate the information gained from different image modalities acquired from the same patient to obtain a comprehensive interpretation. In fMRI, the acquired brain volume data is often distorted by head motion. As a result, accurate information regarding task- induced (or resting-state) signal changes cannot be extracted. So, registration is essential among fMRI volumes (intra modal registration) to correct for such motion. Moreover, to detect the active voxels of the brain due to a particular task, multimodal registration between fMRI and MRI is required. This thesis work is divided into two parts: 1) The first part presents the application of an automatic mutual information based image registration...
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The F2000 is an individual 5.56mm weapon system, developed at the turn of the 21st century by the Belgian armament manufacturer Fabrique Nationale (FN) of Herstal. The F2000 made its debut in March 2001 at the IDEX defense exhibition held in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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The Fusil Automatique Leger (Light Automatic Rifle) or FAL is a 7.62x51mm NATO self-loading, selective fire rifle produced by the Belgian armaments manufacturer Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (FN) during the Cold War, and adopted by many North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries. It has also been adopted by many other nations for their armed forces and has proven to be a popular civilian rifle for hunting and sport shooting. The FN FAL was also produced under license in many of the adopting countries. Because of its prevalence and widespread use among the armed forces of many Western and other non-Communist countries during the Cold War, it was nicknamed "the right arm of the Free World". Данное издание не...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Minimi is a Belgian 5.56mm light machine gun developed by Fabrique Nationale in Herstal by Ernest Vervier. First introduced in 1974, it has entered service with the armed forces of several countries. The weapon is currently manufactured at the FN facility in Herstal as well as being licence-built in Australia, Greece and the USA by FN Manufacturing LLC. The Minimi is a light machine gun firing from an open bolt. The weapon is primarily chambered for 5.56x45mm NATO, though a 7.62x51mm NATO variant exists. It is an air-cooled weapon, capable of fully automatic fire only. It can be belt fed or fired from a magazine Данное издание не является оригинальным....
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Special Forces Combat Assault Rifle, or SCAR, is a modular rifle made by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (FNH) for the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) to satisfy the requirements of the SCAR competition. This family of rifles consist of two main types. The SCAR-L, for light, is chambered in the 5.56x45mm NATO cartridge and the SCAR-H, for heavy, fires 7.62x51mm NATO. Both are available in Long Barrel and Close Quarters Combat variants. The FN SCAR system completed low rate initial production testing in June 2007. After some delays, the first rifles began being issued to operational units in April 2009, and a battalion of the US 75th Ranger Regiment will be the first large unit...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fobos- Grunt (Russian: Фобос-Грунт meaning "Phobos Ground") is a planned Russian sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. The Chinese Mars orbiter Yinghuo-1 will be sent together with the mission. Scheduled for launch late 2011 or early 2012, Fobos-Grunt will be the first Russian interplanetary mission since the failed Mars 96 mission. 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! The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly it converges (focuses) or diverges (defocuses) light. For an optical system in air, it is the distance over which initially collimated rays are brought to a focus. A system with a shorter focal length has greater optical power than one with a long focal length; that is, it bends the rays more strongly, bringing them to a focus in a shorter distance. In telescopy and most photography, longer focal length or lower optical power is associated with larger magnification of distant objects, and a narrower angle of view. Conversely, shorter focal length or higher optical power is associated with a wider angle of view. In microscopy, on...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Focused ion beam, also known as FIB, is a technique used particularly in the semiconductor and materials science fields for site-specific analysis, deposition, and ablation of materials. An FIB setup is a scientific instrument that resembles a scanning electron microscope (SEM). However, while the SEM uses a focused beam of electrons to image the sample in the chamber, an FIB setup instead uses a focused beam of ions. FIB can also be incorporated in a system with both electron and ion beam columns, allowing the same feature to be investigated using either of the beams. FIB should not be confused with using a beam of focused ions for direct write lithography (such as in proton beam writing),...
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Dieses Buch ist eine Terminologiearbeit zum Thema Fordertechnik.Sie wurde fur die Firma Guske 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! The Foggia Airfield Complex was a series of World War II military airfields located within a 40 km (25 mi) radius of Foggia, in the Province of Foggia, Italy. The airfields were used by the United States Army Air Force Fifteenth Air Force as part of the strategic bombardment campaign against Nazi Germany in 1944 and 1945, as well as by Twelfth Air Force and the Royal Air Force during the Italian Campaign (1943–1945).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Fokker Eindecker fighters were a series of German World War I monoplane single-seat fighter aircraft designed by Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker. Developed in April 1915, the first Eindecker ("Monoplane") was the first purpose-built German fighter aircraft and the first aircraft to be fitted with synchronisation gear, enabling the pilot to fire a machine gun through the arc of the propeller without striking the blades. The Eindecker granted the German Air Service a degree of air superiority from July 1915 until early 1916. This period was known as the "Fokker Scourge," during which Allied aviators regarded their poorly armed aircraft as "Fokker Fodder".