Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Mosquito or Mosquito alarm (marketed as the Beethoven in France and the Swiss-Mosquito in Switzerland) is an electronic device, used for solving loitering problems, which emits a sound with a high frequency. The newest version of the device, launched late in 2008, has two frequency settings, one of approximately 17.4 kHz that can generally be heard only by people under the age of 25, and another at 8 kHz that can be heard by most people. The maximum potential output sound pressure level is stated by the manufacturer to be 108 decibels (dB). The sound can typically only be heard by people below 25 years of age, as the ability to hear high frequencies deteriorates in humans with age (a...
ISBN: 978-6-1305-0925-5
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! It was built after the dynaship concept, a 1960s invention of the German hydraulics engineer Wilhelm Prolss, which was intended to operate commercial freight sailing ships with as few crew as possible. The ship has fifteen square sails, stored inside the mast; they can fully unfurl into tracks along the yards in six minutes. The three carbon fiber masts, which are free-standing and able to rotate, were manufactured and assembled by a company financed by Perkins at the Perini Navi Istanbul "Yildiz Gemi" yard in Tuzla, 50 mi (80 km) east of Istanbul, Turkey, under the supervision of the English company Insensys and Dutch company Gerard Dijkstra Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1311-1651-3
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The THE multiprogramming system was a computer operating system designed by a team led by Edsger W. Dijkstra, described in monographs in 1965-66 and published in 1968. Dijkstra never named the system; "THE" is simply the abbreviation of "Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven", then the name (in Dutch) of the Eindhoven University of Technology of the Netherlands. The THE system was primarily a batch system[1] that supported multitasking; it was not designed as a multi-user operating system. It was much like the SDS 940, but "the set of processes in the THE system was static." Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
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In the last 50 years computers have taken an increasing role in the engineering design process. Today prototypes are often perfected through computer simulation rather than practical testing. Modern tools encapsulate expert engineering design knowledge within software creating virtual environments for experimentation. This book describes the design of such a unified framework with a special focus on studying moving objects within dynamic fields. Fundamental transient simulation methodologies for PDEs are introduced and applied through a variety of illustrative examples. Powerful techniques including code generation, symbolic computation and state of the art parallel spectral solvers are presented. Special considerations for linking...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-9334-3
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The Marginalization of Federal Hydropower Multipurpose federal reservoirs, and the conjunctive and disjunctive purposes they serve, constitute a water resource infrastructure that invariably changes over time, reflecting not only changing economic benefits and beneficiaries, but the evolution of social and environmental concerns as well. This research investigates the adaptability of current federal policy in response to changing values and priorities on uses of water and storage, measured in part by (1) the continued ability to identify the highest and best uses of storage in federal multipurpose reservoirs presently incorporating hydropower, and (2) the degree to which emerging concepts of sustainability can be accommodated and...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-7775-6
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This study is a research into firm level innovation activities and the role of the engineers in R Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-3-6392-2814-4
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The static and semi-dynamic routing problems in the Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks are generally very complicated. Finding the exact optima for most of these optimization problems is usually impossible with today’s computation facility even for the medium size networks. Therefore, finding a sub-optimal solution within a reasonable computation time is the only choice, while knowing the proximity of the sub-optimal solution to the exact-optimum would be an additional advantage. Different from most of the existing heuristic approaches, this book provides strict formulations and mathematical solutions with polynomial complexities for various optimization problems, including Min-Cost Problem, Max-RWA Problem, Traffic...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-8064-0
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List of Plates Introduction The Romance of Flying in Ancient China Kites as Precursors of Aeroplanes The Dawn of Airships in Ancient India From Babylon and Persia to the Greeks and the Arabs The Air Mail of Ancient Times Notes Bibliographical References Index. Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1928 года (издательство "Chicago").
ISBN: 978-5-8850-7356-1
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Manufacturers throughout the world search for improvements to increase profitability.This search is more challenging when demand uncertainty and fluctuations are considered.For better profitability, many researchers and practitioners attempts to search shop floor improvements.However, within the last two decades, it has been determined that designing product families also provides opportunities for improvements.Overall, while many approaches have been proposed to optimize product family design for measures of cost and performance, these approaches fail to incorporate manufacturing issues into family design decisions.Postponement is one of the most important of those issues.This research presents a computer simulation study by which the...
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This book reports on a study of the renewable energy- based heating and cooling systems of a multipurpose building. The first objective of the investigation was to demonstrate the potential of solar-assisted cooling, the second focused on the total energy balance of the building. For base-load heating and cooling, the building is equipped with a ground source heat pump, supplied by a ground storage. For solar cooling, the building is equipped with solar collectors and two desiccant evaporative cooling (DEC) plants. During the first year of operation, significant problems occurred in the operation of the DEC-plant and the heat pump. The heating energy consumption of the building was acceptable, but the calculated primary energy...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-0627-5
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Alberta, one of the largest energy producers in the world, is responsible for almost one-third of the total Canadian anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These GHG emissions may be contributing to the current climate change and are caused mainly by the fossil fuel combustion and fugitive sources. The Alberta Ministry of Environment has set up a provincial climate change strategy to reduce GHG emissions. To assess this strategy, this book analyzes the international and Albertan energy markets; the energy research Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-3-6391-0597-1
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Formaldehyde production from methanol over silver catalyst is a fast, exothermic process where dilution is used to control heat release. These properties are indicators of Process Intensification potential. The process is run adiabatically and produces hydrogen (currently left in the tail gas, which is burnt). To investigate the possibility of using a combination of heat exchange and a lower concentration of oxygen in the feed stream to increase hydrogen selectivity while maintaining the required formaldehyde yield, a complete reaction mechanism is necessary. This book combines a review of existing literature on the mechanism of formaldehyde production over silver with an extensive experimental investigation and microkinetic modelling to...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-5434-4
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The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a classical problem of routing a fleet of vehicles from a center to service a set of customers at minimum cost. VRP has been studied over several decades due to its numerous applications in the industry. Such real life routing problems contain a high degree of uncertainty. Most of the current methods to address uncertainty in VRP either require strong assumptions or increase the complexity of the model significantly. Robust optimization has recently emerged, increasingly in this decade, as a novel approach to model uncertainty: optimize against the worst-case scenario. This study contributes to the literature by proposing a routing model that uses robust optimization with simple assumptions to model...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-2500-9
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Mastitis influences milk quality and early detection of mastitis is important. Three major mastitis detection methods are Foss Analysis, Whiteside Test and California Mastitis Test (CMT). CMT is more likely to be applied for monitoring mastitis on-line, yet some uncertainty exists regarding the rheology of CMT gel and factors that influence the CMT accuracy. In this book, studies were focused on the rheology of CMT gel to understand the mechanism of gel formation and how various factors influence the rheology of the gel. It was found that CMT gel is a DNA/histone/surfactant complex, which is a time- and shear-dependent, non-Newtonian fluid. Since the reliability of the CMT hinges on the correlation between viscosity and somatic cell...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-4915-2
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Ruptured Duck" was a North American Aviation B-25B Mitchell (S/N 40-2261), which was piloted by Lt. Ted W. Lawson from the 95th Bombardment Squadron, USAAC, during the Doolittle Raid on Japan commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle. After bombing Tokyo, Lawson ditched "The Ruptured Duck" in the sea near Shangchow, China. A different B-25 is on display at the Pacific Aviation Museum in the colors and livery of "The Ruptured Duck".After the attack on Pearl Harbor, a reprisal raid on Japan was approved. After considering other aircraft types, a total of 24 operational B-25B medium bombers were selected to undertake the raid. Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1304-4208-8
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This book presents the findings of an interdisciplinary study which attempted to understand the role and implications of ‘discourse’ in the implementation of various Information and communication technologies (ICTs) for development initiatives in Jamaica using a Critical Discourse Analysis Methodology. Discourse, the unit of analysis, is an emerging buzzword in the social sciences and humanities today. The inclusion of discourse as a unit of analysis in various disciplines and, the use of several discourse analysis methodologies as discursive deconstructive tools, have proven to be a valuable way of understanding social, political and economic life within these disciplines. Discourse, however, has not been properly introduced to the...
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The StrongMobile "Magic Dragon" Aircar has been developed by retired Air Force pilot-engineer Rich Strong over a 50-year period. The design uses an automobile-type lifting body fuselage and automotive suspension. Flight propulsion uses a front-mounted ducted fan with side outlets. Automatic conversion uses a combination of folding and swinging to stow the wings into the body. The current design envisions a core market of frequent regional business travelers whose time savings make using the StrongMobile virtually revenue neutral. Over the past few years, tens of thousands of enthusiasts have visited the website, www.strongware.com/dragon and have seen the author's presentations at trade shows such as AirVenture. The author-inventor has...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-6934-8
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom is a real time strategy and city-building video game developed by Blue Byte Software and published by Ubisoft. It was released on March 23, 2010 for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Paths to a Kingdom features gameplay similar to that of past 3D games of The Settlers series. The player may choose between playing a Campaign game, a Skirmish Game, a ranked game and a multiplayer game. The game gives the player an opportunity to choose between three unique paths of development for victory: Military, Science, and Trade. In the traditional Military development path, the player builds the kingdom's army in order to conquer and destroy enemies. In the Science...
ISBN: 978-6-1318-1273-6
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The book is focused on using an innovative small- scale testing technique, namely the small-punch method, for lifetime predictions of service components operating at high temperatures for application in several sectors of the power industry, as well as, metals and chemical process industries, and nuclear reactors. The work is to support the recently published Code of Practice for small-punch testing demonstrating the suitability and reliability of this method mainly for evaluating the creep properties of ferritic / martensitic steels and their weldments. The work strives to demonstrate that an important and reliable material information can be obtained by using only very small flat discs, thus avoiding unacceptable damage to the...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-9118-9
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Swoose is a B-17D-BO Flying Fortress, USAAF 40-3097, that saw extensive use in the Southwest Pacific theatre of World War II and survived to become the oldest B-17 still intact. It is the only early "shark fin" B-17 known to exist. It is also the only existing B-17 to have seen action in the 1941-42 Philippines Campaign, the first day of the United States entry into the war.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Scissors is an aerial dog fighting manoeuvre, commonly used by military fighter pilots before the advent of high thrust-to-weight fighters (which allow for extended maneuvering in the vertical plane) in the late 1950s to mid-1960s and later, and before the perfection of the all-aspect air-to-air missile, and reliable BVR (beyond-visual-range) weapons. Thus, although still taught as a basic fighter maneuver useful in a guns-only or short-range missile encounter, the scissors were most commonly encountered by pilots in aerial combat during World War II and the Korean War, and much less frequently since. In fact, for many years now fighter pilots flying aircraft with even a reasonable...
Robots, our "mechanical" workforce, have been utilized in the production environment for decades using simple loops with a high number of repetitions. For future more intelligent and complex robotic functions, there is a practical need for workspace animation. Thus, offline programming, calibration and simulation are key in modern production planning and robotic engineering. This thesis focuses on theoretical and practical robotic workspaces by demonstrating the symbiosis between kinematics, controlling mechanisms, design and programming within one robot assembly. This step by step guide offers an overview of the various fields of robot engineering and production planning by overcoming accuracy limits experienced in the past. The robotic...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-5783-3
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This work shows a novel method to characterize the power performance of a wind turbine directly from fluctuating data. In particular, it shows how to evaluate the dynamic responses of the power performance system on fluctuating wind speeds in the range of seconds. The approach is based on the stochastic differential equations known as the Langevin equations of diffusive Markov processes, which decomposes the fluctuating power production of wind turbines into their deterministic relaxation and stochastic-force (noise) contains. The operated steady-states of the complex power production system of a wind turbine on turbulent winds can be now properly reconstructed. The method is universal and not only more accurate than the current standard...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-2535-4
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