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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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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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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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in all media. This 32,000 word novella is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle. Wells introduces an early example of the Dying Earth subgenre as well. Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1304-8999-1
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The model transfer approach is based on the idea that estimated model parameters from a previous study may in a different context provide useful information for estimating the parameters for the same model in a new context even when the true values of the parameters are not expected to be equal. Transferability has been a matter of considerable practical and theoretical interest because the transfer of a previously estimated model to a new application context can reduce or eliminate the need for data collection and model development effort in the new application context. This book presents six different transfer methods and compares these methods as a function of sample size. The book also describes different test measures for studying...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-9759-7
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With the price of smartphones falling and their quality/capabilities increasing, the consumption of smartphones is on the rise. Smartphones have become a pocket computer and a must have necessity for many people. People want to have access to the internet at all times and smartphones provide this. Moreover, smartphones offer students with a new way of learning referred to as mobile learning. This thesis looks at how students are using their smartphones socially and for their education which is an unexplored topic. This thesis also looks at the potentials of mobile learning and the question of whether smartphones are replacing laptops. In this thesis I surveyed 100 students to find out how smartphones affect their social life and...
ISBN: 978-3-8433-7847-5
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Partially prestressed concrete offers several advantages over fully prestressed designs. However, design codes have been slow to adopt provisions for the design of partially prestressed concrete because of concerns over fatigue and corrosion. The overall objective of this study was to determine the viability of partially post-tensioned concrete members in an aggressive environment, including the impact of cyclic loading. This objective was investigated through an experimental program, which included both individual strand testing and full- scale, post-tensioned beam specimens. The strand testing phase consisted of corroding samples to different amounts of section loss, and then testing them under cyclic loading until failure. The beam...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-4899-2
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The Vickers Vildebeest and the similar Vickers Vincent were two very large two- to three-seat single-engined British biplanes designed and built by Vickers and used as a light bomber, torpedo bomber and in the army cooperation roles. While first flown in 1928, it remained in service at the start of the Second World War, with the last Vildebeests flying against Japanese forces over Singapore and Java in 1942. Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1934 года (издательство " Air Publication").
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Web services are a widely used method of integrating software, creating a need of orchestration tools, to define how several of them are to work together. Existing software solutions try to solve a very broad range of orchestration challenges, and their complexity rises with the complexity of the type of orchestration they support. This creates a demand for an easier-to-use tool, that deliberately reduces the scope of application in favor of usability. The goal of this book is to describe an approach by which such a tool can be created. It has to solve two major dilemmas: First, providing enough information to different groups of people but not overwhelming any of them. The solution is to implicitly determine the information the user...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-9256-1
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc or The White Dove) was a French biplane which disappeared in 1927, during an attempt to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight between Paris and New York. The aircraft was flown by French aviation World War I heroes Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli, who were attempting to win the USD $25,000 Orteig Prize for the flight, but the plane disappeared after its May 8 takeoff from Paris. Two weeks later, Charles Lindbergh successfully made the New York–Paris journey and claimed the prize, flying The Spirit of St. Louis. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
ISBN: 978-6-1323-5040-4
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The World Ends with You, released in Japan as It's a Wonderful World, is an action role-playing game developed by Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts team and Jupiter for the Nintendo DS handheld console. Set in the modern-day Shibuya shopping district of Tokyo, The World Ends with You features a distinctive art style inspired by Shibuya and its youth culture. Development was inspired by elements of Jupiter's previous game, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. It was released in Japan in July 2007, and in PAL regions and North America on April 22, 2008. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
ISBN: 978-6-1303-9474-5
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
Theater drapes and stage curtains are pieces of cloth that fully or partially cover a stage. They come in many different types. The front curtain (also called a grand drape, act curtain, house curtain, house drape or main drape) (tabs in the UK) hangs upstage of the proscenium arch. It is usually made from heavyweight material as its purpose is to hide the stage and muffle sounds. In smaller theatres, they usually consist of two curtains which part horizontally (known as a traveler). In larger theatres, they usually open vertically, disappearing out of sight into the fly tower. This style of opening is known as a guillotine reveal, after the famous execution tool. A single curtain which covers the entire opening by moving horizontally is...
ISBN: 978-6-1309-0959-8
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
A theater or theatre (also a playhouse) is a structure where theatrical works or plays are performed or other performances such as musical concerts may be given. While a theater is not required for performance (as in environmental theater or street theater), a theater serves to define the acting and audience spaces and organize the theater space as well as provide facilities for the performers, the technical crew and the audience. There are as many types of theaters as there are types of performance. Theaters may be built specifically for a certain types of productions, they may serve for more general performance needs or they may be adapted or converted for use as a theater. They may range from open-air amphitheaters to ornate,...
ISBN: 978-6-1309-0944-4
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Theodore Cordy Freeman (February 18, 1930, in Haverford, Pennsylvania – October 31, 1964 at Ellington Air Force Base, Houston, Texas) was a NASA astronaut and a captain in the United States Air Force. He was killed in the crash of a T-38 jet. He was survived by his wife Faith Clark Freeman and one daughter, Faith Huntington. Freeman completed his secondary education in 1948. He attended the University of Delaware at Newark for one year, then entered the United States Naval Academy and graduated in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree. In 1960, he received a Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Michigan. Freeman was also a member of the American...
ISBN: 978-6-1311-3339-8
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A theodolite is an instrument for measuring both horizontal and vertical angles, as used in triangulation networks. It is a key tool in surveying and engineering work, particularly on inaccessible ground, but theodolites have been adapted for other specialized purposes in fields like meteorology and rocket launch technology. A modern theodolite consists of a movable telescope mounted within two perpendicular axes—the horizontal or trunnion axis, and the vertical axis. When the telescope is pointed at a desired object, the angle of each of these axes can be measured with great precision, typically on the scale of arcseconds. Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1303-8617-7
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
The Theodore A. Pappas House is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian house in St. Louis, Missouri. The Pappas house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, when it was only 15 years old. It is one of two houses in St. Louis designed by Wright, the only Usonian Automatic in Missouri. Wright designed it between 1955 and 1959 at the Pappas' request, and Theodore and Bette Pappas built the house together with the help of day laborers between 1960 and 1964. The Pappas house is a rambling 4-bedroom house, and after the Gerald B. and Beverley Tonkens House, is the largest of the Usonian Automatics built. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
ISBN: 978-6-1303-3806-0
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Mid-infrared section of the optical spectrum is typically between 3 to 30?m wavelengths. This area represents optical absorption of a wide range of chemical and organic compounds. Mid-IR absorption spectroscopy is one of the known highly accurate chemical analyses. There are several requirements for the light source used in such techniques. Thermal stability, tunability, monochromaticity, and sufficient power output are a few vital elements of such a system. Lead salt lasers are one of the known sources for mid-infrared light. They can cover 2.9 to 27?m wavelength. The main difficulty of lead salts is their poor thermal conductivity. This prevents the traditional edge-emitting laser to operate continuously (i.e. CW mode) at room...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-4684-4
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Over the last few years, the use of computer simulations has increased significantly, and some of these virtual environments are being investigated for the possible advantage as a therapeutic intervention. With this explosion in popularity, the need to promote functional recovery has come within this technology, and little academic literature exists on how to best utilize this new environment in all forms of feedback. Traditional therapeutic interventions in rehabilitation showed low interaction levels between the patient and environment, as virtual environments have demonstrated a reduced amount of boredom, fatigue, and lack of motivation. This book presents a multimodal three-dimensional harp for interactive musical experiences in...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-3902-0
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Thermally sprayed ceramic coatings deposited from agglomerated feedstock powder have often demonstrated improved properties relative to coatings produced from conventional powders. These types of coatings have been reported to exhibit better wear resistance and higher adhesion strength compared to conventional deposits. In order to apply these types of coatings on turbine blades and diesel engine combustion chambers, the thermo-mechanical properties of plasma sprayed yttria stabilized zirconia coating were investigated. Creep strains and creep rates were measured using free standing thick coatings (3 mm) loaded in the four-point bend configuration at a range of temperatures (from 800 to 1200 C in air) and loads (27 to 49 N). Creep...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-4186-6
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Thermal transport in microchannels is investigated to better understand the fundamentals of single-phase convection and flow boiling at the microscale. Measurements of single-phase pressure drop and heat transfer suggest that conventional Navier-Stokes theory and carefully selected correlations developed at larger scales are entirely capable of predicting single-phase transport characteristics in the microchannels. Both computational fluid dynamics analysis and approximate analytical models are then presented to study the microscale convection-conduction conjugate problem and to aid in the practical design and optimization of microchannel heat sinks. Convective flow boiling in microchannels is also experimentally characterized....
ISBN: 978-3-6391-1703-5
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A thermodynamic instrument is any device which facilitates the quantitative measurement of thermodynamic systems. In order for a thermodynamic parameter to be truly defined, a technique for its measurement must be specified. For example, the ultimate definition of temperature is "what a thermometer reads". The question follows - what is a thermometer? Let's assume that we understand mechanics well enough to understand and measure volume, area, mass, and force. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1310-8048-7
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Indoor thermal comfort not only affects on occupant’s satisfaction, but also affects their productivity and performance. This book investigates the current thermal comfort conditions of existing offices to establish how office layout and indoor thermal environments provided affect the perceived thermal comfort and productivity achieved for the occupants. It further investigates through computer simulation program whether current thermal environments of offices could be improved while minimizing energy consumption by building fabric alterations in the existing studied offices. This book is a useful guide for anyone interested in Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) assessments. It enables you to learn more about different approaches and...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-6978-2
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The thermal wave technique has been explored for the use of liquid thermal conductivity measurement and flow property diagnostics in this dissertation. For liquid thermal conductivity measurements, an experimental technique based on the thermal wave approach is developed. An aqueous fluid consisting of gold nanoparticles was tested and anomalous thermal conductivity enhancement was observed. Our measurement results also showed a divergence of thermal transport behavior between nanofluids and pure liquids. For the study of flow property diagnostics, a heat transfer system with a periodic boundary condition in a steady flow field is examined. Due to linearity and homogeneity of the heat transfer system under certain conditions, a thermal...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-4709-4
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa. A thermoelectric device creates a voltage when there is a different temperature on each side. Conversely when a voltage is applied to it, it creates a temperature difference (known as the Peltier effect). At atomic scale (specifically, charge carriers), an applied temperature gradient causes charged carriers in the material, whether they are electrons or electron holes, to diffuse from the hot side to the cold side, similar to a classical gas that expands when heated; hence, the thermally-induced current. This effect can be used to generate electricity, to measure temperature, to...
ISBN: 978-6-1305-1601-7
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