Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Une traverse est un element fondamental de la voie ferree. C'est une piece posee en travers de la voie, sous les rails, pour en maintenir l'ecartement et l'inclinaison, et transmettre au ballast les charges des vehicules circulant sur les rails. On utilise principalement des traverses en bois ou en beton (et depuis peu il existe une fabrique de traverses en plastique dur recycle ). Le travelage, c'est-a-dire le nombre de traverses au kilometre, est variable. En France, sur le reseau SNCF/RFF, il est generalement de 1666 traverses/km. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд...
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Integration of different photonic devices in a single optoelectronic chip has become increasingly popular since the early 1990s. The distributed combination of optical amplification and photodetection seems promissing in terms of obtaining a large unsaturated output photocurrent and external quantum efficiency, since it allows a continuous extraction of electron-hole pairs with a nearly constant optical power inside a waveguide device. Combined with a traveling-wave structure in order to achieve high electrical bandwidth, key figures of merit for photodetector operation can potentially be largely improved. The downside for these potential improvements is the production of background current generated by absorption of amplified...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-8838-7
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a problem in combinatorial optimization studied in operations research and theoretical computer science. Given a list of cities and their pairwise distances, the task is to find a shortest possible tour that visits each city exactly once. The problem was first formulated as a mathematical problem in 1930 and is one of the most intensively studied problems in optimization. It is used as a benchmark for many optimization methods. Even though the problem is computationally difficult, a large number of heuristics and exact methods are known, so that some instances with tens of thousands of cities can be solved. Данное издание не...
ISBN: 978-6-1303-1470-5
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The level of service (LOS) concept given in the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) has been used as a qualitative measure representing freeway operational conditions for over 40 years. One key element that is not adequately addressed, however, is how travelers perceive the quality of service. In this book, the author examines traveler perceptions of freeway traffic quality in terms of traveler characteristics and prevailing traffic conditions. Questionnaire surveys are designed and conducted to quantify traveler perceptions and the results are statistically analyzed and compared with the HCM specification. Findings suggest that the use of traffic density as a single performance measure for LOS as currently prescribed in the HCM does not...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-3722-4
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Research has established the fact that fulfilment of basic needs has strong connection with the transportation system. Inadequate transportation planning policies played major role in aggravating poverty in rural areas of developing countries as fewer efforts have been made towards understanding decision of travel of rural individuals. This book focused on analysing phenomena underlying travel decision of rural individual and development of comprehensive model by improving existing methodologies and concepts. The conceptual modelling framework incorporate household economics within the need threshold process, household role allocation and accessibility, as these three processes play vital role in rural individual travel decision....
ISBN: 978-3-6392-8999-2
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Traxcavator was a namebrand of the Trackson Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The word "Traxcavator" came from combining "tractor" and "excavator".Trackson commenced business in Milwaukee in 1922 and built tracked attachments for primarily Fordson tractors, initially - then built tracked attachments for other tractor manufacturers. The early Trackson tracked attachments were popular on tractors used for road grader power units, as well as for tractors used in poor ground conditions.The Trackson company was owned by Arnie Frahlic, and the chief engineer was Walter Stiemke. Sometime in the early 1930s, Walter Stiemke recognized the potential of combining the Trackson track system with the Lessman...
ISBN: 978-6-1310-9528-3
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treasure Trap was a live action role-playing game established at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire in April 1982. Various splinter groups broke from the original system, some retaining the Treasure Trap name, and helped to shape the later British LARP scene.The original Peckforton Castle game was a fantasy game run by business partners Peter Carey and Rob Donaldson. The group ran events mainly over weekends, but also some week-long adventures moving across country and ending at the castle. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
ISBN: 978-6-1345-5321-6
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treasure Mathstorm is an educational computer game intended to teach children mathematical problem solving. It is the unofficial sequel to Treasure Mountain!.The Master of Mischief has used a weather machine to freeze Treasure Mountain. To thaw it, the player must collect sufficient treasures using snowballs.The mountain, as in Treasure Mountain!, is divided into three levels. Unlike the previous game, to advance to the next level, the player has to complete various challenges- the first relating to telling time, the second to inequalities and basic algebra, and the final simple computation. Данное...
ISBN: 978-6-1345-4483-2
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treasure Isle is a browser-based video game by Zynga for Facebook, launched in April 2010. It allows users to dig for treasure on various islands. Treasure Isle has many similarities to Zynga's most popular game, FarmVille.Before beginning the search for treasure, the player first creates a customizable avatar. This avatar is much like that of FarmVille's avatar series. There are many islands to travel to for treasure. You can also customize your own island, such as add furniture like chairs, huts, plants and even expand the size of the island, similar to the farm space on Farmville. Данное издание...
ISBN: 978-6-1345-5239-4
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treasure in the Royal Tower is a computer game which was based loosely on a book of the same name. The book is part of a popular mystery series, created in 1930 by Edward Stratemeyer. The heroine of the books, as well as the computer game, is named Nancy Drew. It is based on book #128 in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It takes place in Wisconsin.Nancy's fun ski vacation in an old Wisconsin castle has been interrupted by a fierce blizzard! Snowbound inside the castle, Nancy learns of an elaborate plot devised by Marie Antoinette 200 years ago to hide a royal treasure. Nancy uncovers the rich history of...
ISBN: 978-6-1345-5343-8
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treasure Island Dizzy is a computer puzzle game published in 1987 by Codemasters for the Amstrad, Commodore 64, Spectrum, DOS, NES, Amiga and Atari ST.Note - There is a version for the Enterprise 64/128 machines but this is not an official Codemasters release, it was ported from the Spectrum version. As a platform the Enterprise was long dead in the UK market by the time the Dizzy games appeared. However it was a popular platform in Hungary as most of the unsold stock ended up there, many popular ZX Spectrum games were ported by Hungarian enthusiasts as few big name software houses supported the machine...
ISBN: 978-6-1345-5191-5
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treasures of the Deep was a game released for the PlayStation on July 1, 1998. It was developed by Black Ops Entertainment, notable at the time for flight simulators Agile Warrior and Black Dawn, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Perhaps the first in its genre, Treasures of the Deep's gameplay focused on underwater exploration in a variety of wetsuits and gradually more powerful one-man submarines, in order to fulfill objectives such as capping underwater oil leaks, exploring shipwrecks, and recovering plane crash victims. Finding treasure was also a useful secondary objective - ancient gems...
ISBN: 978-6-1345-5104-5
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treasures of Greyhawk is an adventure module for the Dungeons Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1345-5477-0
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treasure Quest was a puzzle game created by Soggy in Seattle Productions and sold to Sirius Entertainment. It was released April 10, 1996. In the CD-ROM scavenger hunt game Treasure Quest, the player moves from room to room in the mansion of Professor Jonathon William Faulkner, who has bequeathed $1 million dollars to any student who can solve the puzzles he has laid out. To move from one room to the next, players must find a famous quote from visual clues, words and anagrams, and then derive an ultimate solution to the game. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
ISBN: 978-6-1345-5316-2
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treasure Master is a game released by American Softworks in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System as part of a contest involving MTV.After the game's release in late 1991, players had until noon EST on April 11, 1992 to practice beating the game. At this time, MTV revealed a secret password. By entering in this password and the game's serial number before beginning the game, players unlocked a secret sixth "Prize World" level. After this, players had until midnight to complete the entire game including the Prize World. This prompted the game to reveal a 24 character code. By calling in to a special hotline...
ISBN: 978-6-1345-4473-3
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treasure Island was a computer game made in the mid-1980s, based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson. In the game, the player takes on the role of Jim Hawkins (the protagonist of the book), and has to battle through hordes of pirates before a final showdown with Long John Silver. The game view did not scroll, but used a flip-screen style, as was popular in the 1980s.None of the pirates moved around, but some of them would throw a cutlass at Jim if he moved in range. The pirate in question did not lose his cutlass if he does so - he always had another to use himself. A pirate would very rarely throw more than...
ISBN: 978-6-1345-5155-7
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treasure World is an adventure game developed by Aspyr and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. The game is unique, as its gameplay consists mainly of collecting, making use of Wi-Fi signals picked up by the handheld.Upon booting up the game, the player is introduced to the "Star Sweep", an elderly man who searches the universe for treasures, with aid of a robot named the "Wish Finder". The Star Sweep's ship crash-lands on Earth and the player is asked to refill the ship with stardust (its tank must be full before exiting Earth). The Wish Finder is tasked with helping the player, and...
ISBN: 978-6-1345-4974-5
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treasures of the Savage Frontier (1992) is a Gold Box Dungeons and Dragons computer role-playing game. It was developed by Stormfront Studios and published by SSI for the Amiga and DOS.When SSI began work on the Dark Sun game engine in 1989 after the completion of The Secret of the Silver Blades, they passed responsibility for continuing the Forgotten Realms Gold Box games to Stormfront. SSI had planned to do only one more Gold Box game (Gateway to the Savage Frontier) before retiring the series in favor of the Dark Sun engine, but when Dark Sun was delayed and Gateway went to #1 on the charts they asked...
ISBN: 978-6-1345-5481-7
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Treatment is most often used to mean a process of modifying or altering something, and depending on context may be used in an unqualified form to refer to any of the following: * A type of therapy used to remedy a health problem; * Experimental treatment, the levels of treatment factor(s) (variables controlled by the experimenter) applied; * Water treatment; * Sewage treatment; * Surface treatment or surface finishing, processes used to improve the surface of a manufactured item; * National treatment, economic term for the principle that foreigners and domestic nationals are treated equally. Данное...
ISBN: 978-6-1345-5789-4
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A trebuchet or trebucket is a siege engine that was employed in the Middle Ages either to smash masonry walls or to throw projectiles over them. It is sometimes called a "counterweight trebuchet" or "counterpoise trebuchet" in order to distinguish it from an earlier weapon that has come to be called the "traction trebuchet", the original version with pulling men instead of a counterweight. The counterweight trebuchet appeared in both Christian and Muslim lands around the Mediterranean in the twelfth century. It could fling up to three-hundred and fifty pound projectiles at high speeds into enemy fortifications. On occasion, disease-infected corpses were flung into cities in an attempt to infect...
ISBN: 978-6-1303-4283-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In computer science, tree-traversal refers to the process of visiting (examining and/or updating) each node in a tree data structure, exactly once, in a systematic way. Such traversals are classified by the order in which the nodes are visited. The following algorithms are described for a binary tree, but they may be generalized to other trees as well. Compared to linear data structures like linked lists and one dimensional arrays, which have only one logical means of traversal, tree structures can be traversed in many different ways. Starting at the root of a binary tree, there are three main steps that can be performed and the order in which they are performed defines the traversal type....
ISBN: 978-6-1303-5514-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! After a tree has been cut and felled, the stump or tree stump is usually a small remaining portion of the trunk with the roots still in the ground. Stumps may show the age-defining rings of a tree. The study of these rings is known as dendrochronology. Stumps (both those on the ground and stumps of removed branches) are sometimes able to regenerate into new trees. Often, a deciduous tree that has been cut will re-sprout in multiple places around the edge of the stump or from the roots. Depending on whether the tree is being removed permanently or whether the forest is expected to recover, this can be either desirable or undesirable. Stump sprouts can grow very quickly and sometimes become...
ISBN: 978-6-1303-2063-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Trench knives are either purpose-made weapons, or are made from cut-down (shortened) bayonets or swords, and intended for close-quarter fighting, the design originating in the trench warfare of the First World War. They were particularly useful for trench raiding operations, along with other melee weapons. The British Army and its Commonwealth allies (e.g. Australia, Canada and New Zealand) used a wide variety of trench knives during World War I. Some were privately purchased commercial models based on Bowie knives. Others were more specialised types, such as push daggers with a roughly cylindrical aluminium grip which was shaped to fit comfortably when the user's hand made a fist....
ISBN: 978-6-1304-4294-1
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground. Trenches are generally defined by being deeper than they are wide (as opposed to a wider gully or ditch), and by being narrow compared to their length (as opposed to a simple hole). Trenches have long been used to carry water. Trenches can be used for draining purposes, leading water away from a swamp or wetland that is to be dried out. Likewise they can be used for irrigation purposes, directing water into dry areas. Both uses generally require a slope for the water to flow down. Archeologists may use the 'trench method', pioneered by Dame Kathleen Kenyon in Israel, for searching and excavating ancient ruins or to dig into strata of...
ISBN: 978-6-1304-4984-1
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tri-band phones (also known as triband) are mobile phones that support three frequency bands. Having more than one frequency in one device is useful to enable roaming between different countries and continents. Tri-band technology is slowly becoming the norm among many manufacturers.Various countries use different frequency bands for their mobile networks and a tri-band phone can be used on three of these bands, generally speaking, chosen to favour two of the home country's bands, and one for roaming in other countries.2G Tri-band phones are mobile phones that support the GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz bands commonly sold in Europe, Asia and Africa, (for example the LG KE820 is a tri-band mobile phone...
ISBN: 978-6-1305-0534-9
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