Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Forgotten Realms (commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as simply "The Realms") is a campaign setting for the Dungeons Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1325-3702-7
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
As a piece of cutlery or kitchenware, a fork is a tool consisting of a handle with several narrow tines on one end. The fork, as an eating utensil, has been a feature primarily of the West, whereas in East Asia chopsticks have been more prevalent. Today, forks are increasingly available throughout East Asia. The utensil is used to lift food to the mouth or to hold food in place while cooking or cutting it. Food can be lifted either by spearing it on the tines, or by holding it on top of the tines, which are often curved slightly. For this latter function, in the American style of fork etiquette, the fork is held with tines curving up; however, in continental style, the fork is held with the tines curving down. Данное...
ISBN: 978-6-1306-6403-9
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
A forklift is a powered industrial truck used to lift and transport materials. The modern forklift was developed in the 1920s by various companies including the transmission manufacturing company Clark and the hoist company Yale Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1306-0078-5
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
FormatFactory is an ad-supported freeware multimedia converter that can convert video, audio, and picture files. It is also capable of ripping DVDs and CDs to other file formats, as well as creating .iso images. The program can also join multiple video files together into one. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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Calcium phosphate (Ca-P) formation and bone mineral structures have been the focus of research for several decades because achievements in these areas could provide valuable insights into the understanding of biomineralization. This monograph reports a systematical study on Ca-P formation, octacalcium phosphate (OCP) to hydroxyapatite (HA) transformation and bone mineral nanostructures with transmission electron microscope (TEM) techniques, including selected area electron diffraction, high- resolution TEM, fast Fourier transformation and image simulation. The study emphasizes several fundamental issues related to bioactivity and bone formation. More specifically, they include: 1) Comparative study of Ca-P formation on bioceramics; 2) In...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-1135-1
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Un format de fichier audio est un format de donnees utilise en informatique pour stocker des sons, de la musique ou des voix sous forme numerique. De nombreux standards existent; certains s'appliquent a la production, au stockage et a la diffusion, d'autres (ceux qui utilisent des algorithmes de compression de donnees ou de debit), sont destines, en principe, uniquement a la diffusion. Actuellement, le format le plus utilise est de loin le mp3, suivi du wma, et de l'aac. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1327-0391-0
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Formwork is the term given to either temporary or permanent moulds into which concrete or similar materials are poured. In the context of concrete construction, the falsework supports the shuttering moulds. Formwork comes in three main types: Traditional timber formwork The formwork is built on site out of timber and plywood or moisture-resistant particleboard. It is easy to produce but time-consuming for larger structures, and the plywood facing has a relatively short lifespan. It is still used extensively where the labour costs are lower than the costs for procuring re-usable formwork. It is also the most flexible type of formwork, so even where other systems are in use, complicated sections...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! FORscene is an integrated internet video platform, covering non linear editing and publishing for broadcast, web and mobile. Designed by Forbidden Technologies plc to allow collaborative editing of video, its capabilities extend to video logging, reviewing, publishing and hosting to HD quality. The system is implemented as a web application with a Java applet as part of its user interface. It runs on multiple platforms without application installation, codec installation, or machine configuration and has many Web 2.0 features. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд...
ISBN: 978-6-1316-6564-6
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fort Siloso is the sole restored coastal gun battery from the twelve such batteries which made up "Fortress Singapore" at the start of World War II. Siloso comes from the word Seloso, a Filipino word meaning jealous person. The Fort is situated on the resort island of Sentosa, restored as a museum, and open for public viewership. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1328-3456-0
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fort Queenscliff, in Victoria, Australia, dates from 1860 when an open battery was constructed on Shortland's Bluff to defend the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. The Fort, which underwent major redevelopment in the late 1870s and 1880s, became the headquarters for an extensive chain of forts around Port Phillip Heads. Its garrison included volunteer artillery, engineers, infantry and naval militia, and it was manned as a coastal defence installation continuously from 1883 to 1946. The other fortifications and armaments around the Heads were completed by 1891, and together made Port Phillip one of the most heavily defended harbours in the British Empire. Данное издание не...
ISBN: 978-6-1318-3022-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fort Anjediva, built on the Anjadip Island, off the coast of the Indian state of Karnataka but under the administrative jurisdiction of the Indian state of Goa, was once under Portuguese rule. It has also in its vicinity an ancient church on the island called the Church of Our Lady of Springs built in 1505. The Chapel of St Francis D’Assissi is also located here but it is in ruins. Though the fort has a rich history linked to Portuguese rule, it is also presently in ruins. Both the fort and the church are located in the island of Anjadip, which covers an area of 1.5 square kilometres (0.58 sq mi). The fort island was also known as Agiadvipa (clear butter), Angedvpa (some isles), Agadvipa...
ISBN: 978-6-1339-4009-3
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fortescue Metals Group is an Australian iron ore mining company with holdings of more than 71,000 km2 in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The company is listed as FMG on the Australian Securities Exchange and has shown spectacular share appreciation in the last few years. Fortescue Metals is led by entrepreneur and one of Australia's richest men Andrew Forrest. Forrest also founded Anaconda Nickel one of the world's largest nickel miners. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fortress Maximus is the name of several fictional characters from several of the various Transformers universes. Fortress Maximus appeared in the season 4 finale of the US Transformers animated series voiced by Stephen Keener. He was one of the stars of the Japanese Transformers: Headmasters animated series, voiced by Ikuya Sawaki. The Japanese anime series Transformers: Masterforce introduced his brother Grand Maximus as a regular character late in the series, who was also voiced by Ikuya Sawaki.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Forward looking infrared (FLIR) is an imaging technology that senses infrared radiation. Since FLIRs use detection of thermal energy to create the "picture" assembled for the video output, they can be used to help pilots and drivers steer their vehicles at night, and in fog, or detect warm objects against a cold background when it is completely dark (such as a cloudy, moonless night). The wavelength of infrared that FLIRs detects differs significantly from that of night vision, which operates in the visible light and near infrared ranges (0.4 to 1.0 micrometres). FLIRs, such as the AN/AAQ-26, are often used in naval vessels, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and armored fighting vehicles. In...
ISBN: 978-6-1339-1094-2
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Forward Intelligence Teams (FITs) are two or more police officers who are deployed by UK police forces to gather intelligence on the ground and in some circumstances, to disrupt activists and deter anti- social behaviour. They use cameras, camcorders and audio recorders to conduct overt surveillance of the public. An unsuccessful legal challenge has been made against their use of overt surveillance, but in 2009 it was ruled that they must justify retention of photographs on a case-by-case basis. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
ISBN: 978-6-1329-0404-1
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Louis-Nicolas Robert of Essonnes, France, was granted a patent for a continuous paper making machine in 1799.[1] At the time he was working for Leger Didot with whom he quarrelled over the ownership of the invention. Didot thought England was a better place to develop the machine, but, these being troubled times, he could not go there himself so sent his brother in law, John Gamble, an Englishman living in Paris. Through a chain of acquaintances, Gamble was introduced to the brothers Sealy and Henry Fourdrinier, stationers of London, who agreed to finance the project. Gamble was granted British patent 2487 on 20 October 1801. With the help particularly of Bryan Donkin, a skilled and ingenious...
ISBN: 978-6-1303-6615-5
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A fourteen-segment display is a type of display based on 14 segments that can be turned on or off to produce letters and numerals. A seven-segment display suffices for numerals and certain letters, but to unambiguously render the roman alphabet requires more detail. It is an extension of the more common seven-segment display, having an additional four diagonal and two vertical segments with the middle horizontal segment broken in half. The sixteen-segment display breaks all three horizontal segments in half. A decimal point and/or comma may be present as an additional segment, or pair of segments; the comma is commonly formed by combining the decimal point with a closely 'attached'...
ISBN: 978-6-1326-5316-1
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Foxtrot class was the NATO reporting name of a class of diesel-electric patrol submarines that were built in the Soviet Union. The Soviet designation of this class was Project 641. The Foxtrot class was designed to replace the earlier Zulu class, which suffered from structural weaknesses and harmonic vibration problems that limited its operational depth and submerged speed. The first Foxtrot was laid down in 1957 and commissioned in 1958 and the last was completed in 1983. A total of 58 were built for the Soviet Navy at the Sudomekh division of the Admiralty Shipyard, St. Petersburg. Additional hulls were built for other countries. The Foxtrot class was comparable in performance and...
ISBN: 978-6-1317-7092-0
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The Central and Eastern United States (CEUS) is a region that is characterized by low frequency-high consequence seismic events such as the New Madrid sequence of 1811-1812. The majority of steel-framed buildings in the CEUS were designed without regard to seismic loads. Such frames possess limited seismic resistance, and may pose an unacceptable risk if a large earthquake were to occur in the region. The seismic fragility analyses in this study focus on steel frames that are typical of building construction in regions of infrequent seismicity; such frames have received little attention to date in building seismic risk assessment. Current steel building stock in Shelby Co., Tennessee has been represented by five code-compliant model...
ISBN: 978-3-8364-8897-6
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Methodologies using bridge dynamic responses or modal information for system identification are very attractive and highly desirable. In this book, identification methodologies for bridge-vehicle systems using such information are developed. A bridge model updating method is developed using the natural frequencies and static deflections or strains of the bridge. Methodologies of identifying dynamic vehicle axle loads and vehicle parameters are also developed using only the field measured time histories of bridge responses. Dynamic impact factor for multi-girder concrete bridges is also studied and statistical properties are obtained. Field tests are conducted and results have demonstrated the ability of the developed methodologies to...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-4575-5
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In the strive for more sustainable pathways for society there are often situations where conflicts arise between economic and social developments and the consequent environmental impacts. Examples of these conflicts are often found in situations of multiple uses of natural resources. They emerge mainly from differences in values, worldviews and conflicting interests among the stakeholders, and tend to be persistent. Whith the increasing number of such conflicts has also come a raise in the need for more efficient tools for conflict resolution. This book, therefore, seeks to illustrate the development of a methodoloy for analysing the frames of different stakeholders to foster the understanding, and in the end, resolve or avoid persistent...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-9784-9
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Many organizations are considering sustainable construction and LEED for their projects. There are two factors that motivate owners to pursue sustainable buildings: intangible benefits such as competitive differentiation or social responsibility, and tangible benefits such as reduced costs or increased revenue. Having a comprehensive understanding of the factors or attributes that affect potential costs, scheduling and quality of construction, environment, human health, safety and comfort will allow an owner to make better choices as to which LEED credits a particular building should pursue. Realizing that every construction project is unique and what might be a better choice for one project may not be for the other, this research has...
ISBN: 978-3-8364-8355-1
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Framing hammers, used for framing wooden houses, are heavy duty rip hammers with a straight claw. The hammer heads typically weigh from 20 to 32 ounces for steel heads, and 12 to 16 ounces for titanium heads. Heavy heads, longer handles and milled faces allow for driving large nails quickly into dimensional lumber. Typically the head will be made of steel and the handle of wood. Light weight titanium heads with longer handles allow for increased velocity, resulting in greater energy delivery, while decreasing arm fatigue and risk of carpal tunnel syndrome. The milled face of the head consists of a waffle-like grid of small four sided pyramids. Nails typically used for framing have a grid of intersecting raised metal lines on the head of...
ISBN: 978-6-1307-6148-6
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Le France, (rebaptise Norway en 1979, puis Blue Lady en 2006), etait un paquebot transatlantique construit aux chantiers de l'Atlantique a Saint-Nazaire ou il fut mis a l'eau, le 11 mai 1960, en presence du resident de la Republique francaise le general de Gaulle. Son port d'attache etait alors au Havre et il est mis en service en janvier 1962 pour le compte de la Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. Luxueusement meuble, le paquebot a ete decore par plusieurs peintres de l'Ecole de Paris et notamment par Louis Vuillermoz. Il assura des traversees transatlantiques et quelques croisieres autour du monde jusqu'en 1974, ou il fut desarme pour raisons economiques. Revendu a un armateur norvegien en...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Air Marshal Sir Francis John Linnell KBE CB LoM saw active service in World War 1 and World War 2. He was Controller of Research and Development MAP during the development of the Bouncing bomb, the weapon eventually employed in Operation Chastise. `Jack` was Dubbed Sir Francis in the desert in front of the British press by King George VI and posthumously invested as a Commander in the Legion of Merit by Franklin D. Roosevelt.