Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yarralumla brickworks, also known as the Commonwealth Brickworks, was one of the earliest construction projects in Canberra, Australia. It was built in the suburb of Yarralumla to produce the bricks used to build many of Canberra's early buildings. It opened in around 1913 and operated until its closure in 1976. It is known for producing the bricks used to build itself. Narrow gauge goods railway lines for the transportation of bricks linked Yarralumla to some of the major building sites in central Canberra such as Old Parliament House, and the Kingston Power House. No sign of this early Canberra transport system remains today. The original brick kilns were built according to Walter Burley...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yarra Trams is the trading name of the Melbourne tram network, which is fully owned and registered by the Victorian State Government. The current franchise is operated by a consortium named KDR Melbourne which consists of a partnership between French company Keolis and Australian company Downer EDI Rail. Yarra Trams operates 28 major tram routes and 501 vehicles of 6 different classes in Melbourne, Australia which consists of 70 A Class, 132 B Class, 36 three section C Class low floor Citadis, 5 five section C2 Class low floor Citadis, 38 three section D Class low floor Combino, 21 five section D Class low floor Combino, 52 W Class and 147 Z Class type trams. Yarra Trams currently employs...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yarragon is a railway station on the Bairnsdale railway line in Yarragon, Victoria, Australia. The station is located on the Princes Highway and is 112km from Southern Cross station. The station is located adjacent to the Princes Highway on the northern side. A disused goods platform exists behind the down platform. Steam locomotive K162 is on display opposite the UP platform entrance. This locomotive was exchanged for K183 of the same class, when Steamrail Victoria deemed 183 to be in better condition. K183's tender remained, and thus K162 was painted as K183. K183 has since been involved in a tragic crash with a truck. Bairnsdale-bound trains do not stop at Yarragon (running express from...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yarramalong Bus Services was a commuter bus operator that ran bus services in the Wyong Shire on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia from 1914 until it was sold to Busways in 2008. For the entire period it was owned by members of the Palmer family. It was founded by George Palmer who used a horse drawn coach to transport passengers and groceries, newspapers and mail. Bags were carried on the roof of the coach and a return trip would cost a 2 shillings. A Model-T Ford was the first motorised bus to be acquired and was followed by a Chevrolet in 1948. The bus service ran twice daily in each direction between Yarramalong and Wyong but services were sometimes cancelled because of...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yarra Glen is the city-end terminus of the Healesville tourist railway. The first station on the site was built in 1888 – 1889 when the railway line was extended from Lilydale to Healesville. The settlement had been previously named Burgoyne, but when the railway was extended, the decision was made to rename it Yarra Glen. Though Yarra Glen was a small settlement, its station was often used for supplying Melbourne with produce from nearby farms. The station closed along with the Healesville line in 1980. It sat idle for some years, and suffered some major fire damage to the roof, however the station is being restored as part of the Yarra Valley Tourist Railway, which is based out of...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yarrow M class were a class of ten destroyers built for the Royal Navy that saw service during World War I. They were generally similar to the standard Admiralty M class, but were instead designed by the builder, Yarrow & Company. Generally, they had two instead of three shafts, as well as two funnels and a straight stern, with the bridge set well back from the forecastle. The first trio were two knots faster than the Admiralty M type, despite less installed power and one less shaft; the installed power was increased for the later vessels. Jane's Fighting Ships describes the class as "very successful boats", and all ten vessels survived throughout the war to be broken up during the...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yarrow (Shipbuilders), Limited (YSL), often styled as simply Yarrows, was a major shipyard, now part of BVT Surface Fleet, a joint venture between BAE Systems and VT Group, which also includes the nearby Govan shipyard. The shipyard is located in the Scotstoun district of Glasgow, Scotland on the River Clyde. The company was founded by Alfred Yarrow, later Sir Alfred Yarrow, 1st Baronet, in the 1865 as Yarrow 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 Yas V8 400 is a V8 Supercar motor racing event and presently one of two V8 Supercar events held outside of Australa or New Zealand. The race is held at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The inaugural event was announced as the opening event of the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series, becoming the second venue in the Middle East to host the Australian series, joining Bahrain International Circuit, home of the Desert 400. The race uses a shorter version of the F1 track, with a "Corkscrew" secion between Turn 3 and halfway down the back straight. This shortens the track to 4.7km, with lap times around 2 minutes. The first event was won by Jamie Whincup who won both...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! YASH Technologies Inc.is an American corporation headquartered in East Moline, Illinois. YASH Technologies offers end-to-end business and technology solutions. As a strategic partner YASH manages entire business lifecycle initiatives, as well as drives the strategic IT road-map for an organization. The following years mark milestones in the growth and development of YASH Technologies: 1996 - YASH started as an IT partner for Deere Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1309-4036-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yastreb class guard ships were built for the Soviet Navy as small patrol and escort ships. Fifteen out of twenty planned ships were laid down before the start of Operation Barbarossa, but only one was completed during World War II. Five others were completed after the war, but five were scrapped on the stocks at Nikolayev when it was captured by the Germans in late 1941, four were scrapped by the Soviets at Leningrad and five were cancelled before they were laid down. The postwar ships were completed to a modified design as Project 29K. One of these was transferred to the NKVD. The last of the ships was scrapped in 1975. The Yastreb class guard ships were designed to replace the...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yasutaka Murata was born in 1947 in Kyoto as first son of Akira Murata, who three years earlier founded the company that was to become Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Yasutaka Murata joined Murata Manufacturing in 1973 after graduating from New York University (with a Bachelor of Science degree in Quantitative Analysis). In 1974, he was appointed as Director of Murata Electronics Singapore. He was assigned to be the Senior Executive Director of Fukui Murata Manufacturing in May 1979. Mr. Yasutaka Murata became Executive Vice President of Murata Manufacturing in 1982 and Corporate Executive Vice President seven years later. In June 1991 he became President Statutory Representative Director of...
ISBN: 978-6-1313-7891-1
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yatate are small personal smoking-pipe-shaped writing sets from medieval Japan which provided a carrying box for the ink cotton, and a shaft for a brush (and possibly a letter opener). Yatate literally means "Arrow Stand" ("ya-tate"). The name comes from the fact that early bushi kept ink stones inside their arrow stands. Japanese writing was traditionally done using the usual writing set inspired from China: an inking stone, a small stick of solid ink (sumi) (which is turned to usable liquid ink by grinding on the inking stone and watering), and brushes. The set is heavy, clumsy, and it takes some amount of time before being ready to write. During the Kamakura era (1185-1333), the idea of...
ISBN: 978-6-1313-8494-3
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yates Oil Field is a giant oil field in the Permian Basin of west Texas. Primarily in extreme southeastern Pecos County, it also stretches under the Pecos River and partially into Crockett County. Iraan, on the Pecos River and directly adjacent to the field, is the nearest town. The field has produced more than one billion barrels of oil, making it one of the largest in the United States, and in 2009 it remains productive, though at a diminished rate. Estimated recoverable reserves are still approximately one billion barrels, which represents approximately 50% of the original oil in place (OOIP). The productive area of the oil field covers approximately 26,400 acres, or over 41 square...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The yaw bearing is the most crucial and cost intensive component of a yaw system found on modern horizontal axis wind turbines. The yaw bearing must cope with enormous static and dynamic loads and moments during the wind turbine operation, and provide smooth rotation characteristics for the orientation of the nacelle under all weather conditions. It has also to be corrosion and wear resistant and extremely long lasting. It should last for the service life of the wind turbine) while being cost effective. Windmills of the 1700s began implementing rotatable nacelles to capture wind coming from different directions. The yaw systems of these "primitive" windmills were surprisingly similar to the...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The yaw drive is an important component of the horizontal axis wind turbines' yaw system. To ensure the wind turbine is producing the maximal amount of electric energy at all times, the yaw drive is used to keep the rotor facing into the wind as the wind direction changes. This only applies for wind turbines with a horizontal axis rotor. The wind turbine is said to have a yaw error if the rotor is not aligned to the wind. A yaw error implies that a lower share of the energy in the wind will be running through the rotor area. (The generated energy will be proportional the cosine of the yaw error). When the windmills of the 1700s included the feature of rotor orientation via the rotation of the...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The yaw system of wind turbines is the component responsible for the orientation of the wind turbine rotor towards the wind. The task of orientating the rotor into the wind was a complicated issue already for historical windmills. The first windmills able to rotate in order to "face" the wind appeared in the mid-1700s. Their rotatable nacelles were mounted on the main structure of the windmill using primitive wooden gliding bearings lubricated with animal fat. The necessary yawing torque was created by means of animal power, human power or even wind power (implementation of an auxiliary rotor known as fantail). Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT) do not need a yaw system since their vertical...
ISBN: 978-6-1314-0676-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yaxham is a railway station in the village of Yaxham in the English county of Norfolk. The station is served by heritage services operated by the Mid-Norfolk Railway and is the site of the Yaxham Light Railway. The station is the only one on the line that retains a majority of its original features, the signalbox (not owned by the MNR) still stands and the platform shelters on the up platform are still in situ, although those on the down platform used by the present service have been demolished. The original stationmaster's house survives as a private residence, as does the original railway hotel on the opposite side of the road to the station. The station's survival is mostly due to the late...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yaxham Light Railway is a narrow gauge light railway situated adjacent to Yaxham railway station on the Mid-Norfolk Railway. It is located in the village of Yaxham in the English county of Norfolk. Mr D.C. Potter opened the site's first narrow gauge line in the former goods yard in 1967. This was constructed for his Hunslet 0-4-0ST, "Cackler", and the disused tracks of this line can still be seen from passing trains on the Mid-Norfolk Railway. In 1969 the loco was moved across the standard gauge line to the Yaxham Park Light Railway (YPLR), which ran for over 1/2 a mile in meadows beyond the station, eventually being replaced by today's Yaxham Light Railway. The railway has a gauge of 2 ft (610...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad (Y 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 Ybbstalbahn is a narrow-gauge railway of the Austrian Federal Railways with a track gauge of 760 mm (2 ft 5+7?8 in), located in the Lower Austrian Mostviertel. The original route follows the valley of the river Ybbs from Waidhofen an der Ybbs up to the market town of Lunz am See, with a branchline to the town of Ybbsitz. The original route extended from Lunz am See to Kienberg Gaming, and is currently operated as a heritage railway under the name Ybbsthalbahn-Bergstrecke (mountain line). The Ybbstalbahn starts from the narrow-gauge railway platform opposite the main standard gauge station at Waidhofen am der Ybbs, where the workshops and freight transhipment facilities are also located. The...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Northrop's first post-war civil design was a three-engined STOL passenger and cargo transport named the Northrop N-23 Pioneer. The Pioneer could carry 36 passengers or five tons of cargo and first flew on 21 December 1946. The aircraft had a good performance, but there was little interest due to the availability of cheap war surplus aircraft. The Pioneer was lost in a fatal crash in 1947. In 1948 the United States Air Force expressed interest in an aircraft of the same configuration and placed an order with Northrop for 23 aircraft, 13 troop transports designated the C-125A Raider and 10 for Arctic rescue work designated the C-125B. With the company designation N-32 Raider the first aircraft...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! YCbCr or Y?CbCr is a family of color spaces used as a part of the color image pipeline in video and digital photography systems. Y? is the luma component and CB and CR are the blue-difference and red-difference chroma components. Y? (with prime) is distinguished from Y which is luminance, meaning that light intensity is non-linearly encoded using gamma. Y?CbCr is not an absolute color space, it is a way of encoding RGB information. The actual color displayed depends on the actual RGB colorants used to display the signal. Therefore a value expressed as Y?CbCr is only predictable if standard RGB colorants or an ICC profile are used. Данное издание не является...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yeager Airport (IATA: CRW, ICAO: KCRW, FAA LID: CRW) is a joint civil-military public airport located three miles (5 km) east of the central business district (CBD) of Charleston, a city in Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA. The airport covers 767 acres (3.1 km ) and has two runways. It is also home to nine C-130 Hercules aircraft of the Air National Guard's 130th Airlift Wing (130 AW), an Air Mobility Command (AMC)-gained unit of the West Virginia Air National Guard. The airport sits on a hilltop over 300 feet (about 100 m) above the valleys of the Elk and Kanawha Rivers, and the hill drops off sharply on all sides. Due to the airfield's unusual location, passengers flying into Yeager enjoy a...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yealmpton station was a stone built railway station in Devon, and was the terminus of the Plymouth to Yealmpton Branch built to the south and across the River Yealm from the town of Yealmpton. From 1898 to 1960, Yealmpton was the terminus of the Yealmpton to Plymouth branch railway line. The line was built by the Great Western Railway. In its early days the line carried passengers and freight. The growth in the number of motor cars and buses led to reducing passenger traffic in the 1920s and passenger services ceased on the line in 1930. From then until 1941, only freight traffic ran on the line. Passenger services were restored in 1941, as villages such as Yealmpton were then being used as...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or simply Y2K) was a notable problem for both digital (computer-related) and non-digital documentation and data storage situations which resulted from the practice of abbreviating a four-digit year to two digits. In computer program design, the practice of representing the year with two digits becomes problematic with logical error(s) arising upon "rollover" from x99 to x00. This has caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after January 1, 2000 and on other critical dates which were billed "event horizons". Without corrective action, it was suggested that...
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