Aug 21

Weight distribution. car handling

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Weight distribution is the apportioning of weight within a vehicle, especially cars, airplanes, and watercraft.

Weight distribution affects a variety of vehicle characteristics, including handling, acceleration, traction, and component life. Ideal weight distribution will vary from vehicle to vehicle and from application to application. For example, the weight distribution for a dedicated drag car will be different from that of a car built for road racing.

In the airline industry, load balancing is used to evenly distribute the weight of passengers, cargo, and fuel throughout an aircraft. See loadmaster, dealing mostly with military applications.

In large aircraft and ships, multiple fuel tanks and pumps are often used, so that as fuel is consumed, the remaining fuel can be positioned to keep the vehicle balanced, and to reduce stability problems associated with the free surface effect.


See also

  • Center of mass
  • Roll center
  • Center of earths gravitational pull
Jul 23

Leg hair. not generally used unless

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Leg hair is hair that grows on the legs of humans, generally appearing at the onset of adulthood.
Male legs are most often hairier than female ones. For a variety of reasons, people may shave their leg hair. Women generally shave their leg hair more than men, and many times they are expected to as a sign of beauty.
The amount of hair on an individuals legs can depend on their ethnic background with men of Middle Eastern, South Asian, or general Mediterranean descent generally having more, however this may also be due to members of these ethnic groups having darker hair. Men of African descent can have very little hair on their legs with some having virtually none.


See also

  • Beard
  • Facial hair
  • Hair
  • Hirsutism
  • Pubic Hair
  • Trichophilia
Jul 19

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. not generally

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The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) is the leading learned society for the academic study of US foreign policy history. Founded in 1967, SHAFR is best known for two activities. First, the society’s journal, Diplomatic History, is generally thought of as the most prestigious journal in its field. Secondly, the society holds an annual conference each June. It generally alternates between Washington, D.C. and various other North American towns and cities with major universities. Recent hosts have included The University of Kansas (2006), The University of Texas at Austin (2004) and the University of Georgia (2002).


External links

  • Official SHAFR Website
Jul 19

Nishiseto Expressway. bystanders e.g. pedestrians or

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The is an expressway in Japan that connects nine of the Geiyo Islands together, including Ohshima, Umashima, and Innoshima. The expressway contains ten bridges, including the Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge, the world’s longest series of suspension bridges, and the Tatara Bridge, the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge. It was opened on May 1, 1999, and is approximately 60 kilometers long, sporting four lanes and separate paths for pedestrians and cyclists.


External links

  • Nishiseto Expressway at the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Authority
  • Map of the Nishiseto Expressway
Jul 05

Casualty. only ones injured: although

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Casualty may refer to:

  • Casualty (person), a person who is killed, or injured, in a war or disaster
  • The emergency department of a hospital, also known as a casualty department
  • Casualty (TV series), a long-running UK television series set in a hospital casualty department
  • Casualty insurance, a type of insurance
Jun 26

Die hard (phrase). describe such

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The phrase die hard was first used during the Peninsular war to describe the 57th Regiment of Foot (Middlesex regiment). This was as a result of the action at the Battle of Albuera (1811) of Colonel Inglis who upon being badly wounded refused to retire from the battle but calmly and repeatedly said “Die hard 57th, die hard!” as he himself lay dying on the field, his regiment exchanging brutally close range musket volleys.

The term was later used to deride several senior officers of the Army who sought to maintain unchanged the system bequeathed to them by the Duke of Wellington, and who strenuously resisted military reforms enacted by Parliament in the late 1860s and subsequently.

In British politics the term “die hard” was later used to describe those members of the House of Lords who, during the crisis caused by the Lords’ rejection of Lloyd George’s “People’s Budget” of 1909 refused to accept the diminution of the Upper House’s powers by the Parliament Act.

It was later used to describe those members of the Conservative Party, including Winston Churchill, who refused to accept any moves towards Indian independence in the 1930s. Again this opposition was powerfully concentrated in the House of Lords.

Many of the die hards, though obviously not Churchill, flirted with Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists and some even became active sympathisers with Adolf Hitler and called for a negotiated peace in the crisis of 1940.

The term is now commonly used to describe any person who will not be swayed from a belief, and was used as the title of the popular action movie series Die Hard.

Jun 22

Wounded in action. or killed the term

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WIA is a three letter abbreviation standing for Wounded In Action.

It is used to describe soldiers who have been wounded while fighting in a combat zone during war time, but have not been killed. Typically it implies that they are temporarily or permanently incapable of bearing arms or continuing to fight. [1]

For U.S. Army members becoming WIA in combat generally results in subsequent honoring with the Purple Heart.


See also

  • KIA – Killed In Action
  • MIA – Missing In Action
  • POW – Prisoner Of War
Jun 04

Single-vehicle accident. of single-vehicle accidents

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A single vehicle collision or single-vehicle accident is, as the name implies, a type of road traffic accident in which only one vehicle is involved.

The normal inference is that the cause is operator error. The dominant cause of single-vehicle accidents is excessive speed. Some roads are particularly notorious for these crashes, leading to them being termed “dangerous roads”. Some vehicles have unpredictable car handling characteristics and/or defects, which can increase the potential for a single-vehicle accident.

Another common cause is that the vehicle may leave the roadway. This can be particularly dangerous, since the driver most likely does not expect it and the vehicle was most likely not made to do it, especially at speed. This leaves very little time to react.

The term single-vehicle collision is not generally used unless the rider/driver and passengers of the vehicle are the only ones injured: although in some cases innocent bystanders (e.g. pedestrians or cyclists) can also be hurt or killed, the term single-vehicle accident is unlikely to be used to describe such collisions.

May 11

Carra. it can refer

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Carra is a surname and may refer to:

  • Carlo Carrà, Italian futurist painter
  • Lawrence Carra, American drama professor
  • Raffaella Carrà, Italian TV host, singer, and actress

It may also refer to:

  • footballer Jamie Carragher
  • Carra, County Mayo, Ireland
May 05

Picnic hat. Another common cause

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A picnic hat is a hat, usually composed of straw (sometimes referred to as wicker), that is worn while partaking in a picnic. This hat is especially common in warm areas where it is needed to shade the picnic-goer from the sunlight beating down from above. The picnic, a common North American tradition, has caused this hat to become an icon of the culture that surrounds the eating of a meal outside with family and friends.


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May 04

Gypsy in Amber. accident an

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Gypsy in Amber (1971) was Martin Cruz Smith’s first mystery novel.

It features Romano Grey, the gypsy antique expert, who is pulled into a murder investigation when one of his friends dies in an automobile accident and is suspected of the murder of a girl whose body is found at the scene of the accident sliced up into six pieces.

Apr 28

Long term. The term

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In economics

Long term, in economics, is the period of time required for economic agents to reallocate resources, and generally reestablish equilibrium.

The actual length of this period, usually numbered in years or decades, varies widely depending on circumstantial context. During the long term, all factors are variable.

According to John Maynard Keynes, “In the long term, we’re all dead.”


In finance

For financial operations (borrowing, investing…), what is considered

  • long term is usually above 7 years,
  • medium term is usually between 2 and 7 years,
  • short term is usually under 2 years.


See also

  • time horizon
Apr 20

MV Bukoba. passengers of

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MV Bukoba is the name of a passenger steamer that sank 30 kilometers from Mwanza, Tanzania on May 21 1996, killing nearly one thousand people. The boat had been used to transport passengers and cargo between Lake Victoria ports Bukoba and Mwanza.

The steamer’s capacity was 430, but around 800 people drowned as the boat sank to the bottom of Lake Victoria. The manifest showed 443 passengers in the first and second class cabins, but the cheaper third class compartment had no manifest.

The lack of equipment and divers were partially to blame for the tragedy. Rescue teams from South Africa were flown in to salvage the ship and retrieve bodies that sank 25 meters under water.

President Benjamin Mkapa declared 3 days of national mourning after the tragedy.


See also

  • Lake Victoria ferries
Apr 06

Arrondissements of the Vienne department. can increase

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The 3 arrondissements of the Vienne department are:

  1. Arrondissement of Châtellerault, (subprefecture: Châtellerault) with 12 cantons and 96 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 108,636 in 1990, and was 109,202 in 1999, an increase of 0.52%.
  2. Arrondissement of Montmorillon, (subprefecture: Montmorillon) with 11 cantons and 98 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 74,008 in 1990, and was 74,045 in 1999, an increase of 0.05%.
  3. Arrondissement of Poitiers, (prefecture of the Vienne department: Poitiers) with 15 cantons and 87 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 197,361 in 1990, and was 215,777 in 1999, an increase of 9.33%.
Apr 03

Single. A single

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Single may refer to:

In music:

  • Single (music), song release
  • Single (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2004/2006 song by Natasha Bedingfield
  • Single coil, electromagnetic guitar pickup type

In sports:

  • Single (baseball), the most common type of base hit
  • Single (cricket), point in cricket
  • Single (football), Canadian football point

In other fields:

  • Single (relationship), person not married or in a romantic relationship
  • Single (tv series), produced by Jane Fallon for Channel 4
  • SINGLE (dating show), a Philippine reality-dating show made by Ideal Minds Corporation that aired from May 2002 to July 2005.
  • Single (locomotive), steam locomotive with a single pair of driving wheels
  • Single precision, computer numbering format that occupies one storage location in computer memory at a given address
  • Single, type of bet made on one selection.


See also

  • Singles
  • Single-ended (disambiguation)
Mar 13

Grinnall Scorpion III. car handling

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Grinnall Scorpion III is a three wheel car, with two wheels at the front and one at the rear which is a better handling configuration than one wheel at the front but is inferior with regard to interior space. The Scorpion III features a GRP with a space frame chassis and employes a BMW K series motorcycle engine as its power plant. The engine, gearbox and final drive from the motorcycle are utilised with a special rear wheel which is fitted with a car tyre, as are the front wheels. The rear wheel is of a smaller circumference than the bike’s wheel so the gearing is optimised for a lower top speed of around with 0-60 mph taking around 6 seconds when using a K1100 engine. Any K series can be used from a 750 cc, 3 cylinder, to a 1200 cc, 4 cylinder giving power outputs from to .

The motorcycle sequential gearchange is retained and operated via a gear shift inside the cockpit and requires a forward or backward movement to change gear. The brake, accelerator and clutch operate as per a car and are adjustable for reach to accommodate different size people. The seat and steering wheel are fixed in position.

Handling is generally considered to be good due to the lower centre of gravity and wide front track (approx 6 ft)

There are two seats and there is provision above the engine to accommodate some luggage which is roughley equivalent to two sports bags.

The cars are sold as complete kits which everything needed to finsh including washers, ty-wraps etc or as completed vehicles. They are essentially recreational vehicles which offer high performance but lack the practicality of a conventional car.


Trivia

The Scorpion III also featured in the TOCA toring car game for PlayStation 2 and also in the Road & Track video ‘0-100-0 Sportscar Shootout’ video as driven by Phil Hill who reviews it alongside other sportscars.

Roger Cook who is a Grinnall III owner was annoyed when Top Gear magazine showed the car cornering on two wheels.


External links

  • Grinnall Specialist Cars Ltd. official website.
  • Grinnall Scorpion Owners Club
Feb 27

LRV. vehicle

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LRV might refer to:

  • Lenticular Reentry Vehicle
  • Light rail vehicle
  • Lunar rover
  • Feb 22

    Allograft. termed

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    An allograft or allogeneic transplant refers to when transplanted cells, tissues or organs are sourced from a genetically non-identical member of the same species. Most human tissue and organ transplants are allografts.

    In contrast, a transplant from another species is called a xenograft. When a transplanted organ or tissue from a genetically identical donor, i.e. an identical twin, is termed an isograft. Finally, when a tissue is transplanted from one site to another on the same patient, it is termed an autograft.

    Allografts and xenografts will be recognised by the recipient’s immune system as foreign and will therefore be attacked in a process termed rejection. This does not occur in autografts or true isografts, although in practice, transplants between identical twins are usually covered with immunosuppressants in case they are not 100% genetically identical.


    Tissue allografts

    A variety of tissue and organs types can be used for allografts. These include:

    • skin transplants
    • corneal transplants
    • heart transplants
    • liver transplants
    • kidney transplants
    • bone marrow transplants
    • bone allograft
    • ligament or tendon allograft


    See also

    • Allograft diseases
    • Medical grafting
Feb 21

Standard error (statistics). error. The dominant

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The standard error of a method of measurement or estimation is the estimated standard deviation of the error in that method. Namely, it is the standard deviation of the difference between the measured or estimated values and the true values. Notice that the true value is, by definition, unknown and this implies that the standard error of an estimate is itself an estimated value.

If the data are assumed to be normally distributed, quantiles of the normal distribution and the sample mean and standard error can be used to calculate confidence intervals for the mean. The following expressions can be used to calculate the upper and lower 95% confidence limits, where ‘x’ is equal to the sample mean, ‘y’ is equal to the standard error of the sample, and 1.96 is the .975 quantile of the normal distribution.
Upper 95% Limit=x+(y*1.96)
Lower 95% Limit=x-(y*1.96).

In particular, the standard error of a sample statistic (such as sample mean) is the estimated standard deviation of the error in the process by which it was generated. In other words, it is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample statistic. The notation for standard error can be any one of <math>SE</math>, <math>SEM</math> (for standard error of measurement or mean), or <math>S_E</math>.

Standard errors provide simple measures of uncertainty in a value and are often used because:

  • If the standard error of several individual quantities is known then the standard error of some function of the quantities can be easily calculated in many cases;
  • Where the probability distribution of the value is known, it can be used to calculate an exact confidence interval; and
  • Where the probability distribution is unknown, relationships like Chebyshev’s or the Vysochanskiï-Petunin inequality can be used to calculate a conservative confidence interval
  • As the sample size tends to infinity the central limit theorem guarantees that the sampling distribution of the mean is asymptotically normal.


Standard error of the mean

The standard error of the mean of a sample from a population is
the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the mean (that is, the standard deviation for the value of the mean estimated from the population) and may be estimated by the formula:

<math>S_E = \frac{\widehat\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}</math>

where

<math>\widehat\sigma</math> is an estimate of the standard deviation σ of the population, and
n is the size (number of items) of the sample.

Note: Standard error may also be defined as the standard deviation of the residual error term. (Kenney and Keeping, p. 187; Zwillinger 1995, p. 626)

Feb 21

Petty. the driver

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Petty can refer to one of the following


People

  • Adam Petty, NASCAR driver; son of Kyle Petty
  • Bruce Petty
  • Lord Charles Petty-FitzMaurice
  • Charles Petty-FitzMaurice, 7th Marquess of Lansdowne
  • Charles Petty-FitzMaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne
  • Dini Petty
  • Edmond Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Baron FitzMaurice
  • George Petty, early pin-up artist
  • George Petty-FitzMaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne
  • Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, British politician
  • Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne
  • Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, British politician and Irish peer
  • Kathleen Petty
  • Kyle Petty, NASCAR driver; son of Richard Petty
  • Lee Petty, stock car driver, one of the pioneers of NASCAR
  • Lori Petty
  • Maud Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne
  • W. Morgan Petty. fictional writer
  • Norman Petty
  • Richard Petty, NASCAR driver; son of Lee Petty
  • Tom Petty, American musician
  • Sir William Petty, British economist and inventor
  • William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Prime Minister and Irish peer


Other

  • Petty, Inverness
Feb 18

Citroën Prototype C. vehicle

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The Citroën Prototype C was a range of vehicles created by Citroën from 1955 to 1956 under the direction of André Lefèbvre. The idea was to produce a water drop-shaped, very lightweight vehicle, which would be more modern and smaller than the 2CV. One of the prototypes, the Citroën C-10 has survived and is still owned by Citroën.

The overall look of the vehicle is quite similar to the Messerschmitt bubble car. It is equipped with the same 425 cc engine as the 2CV.

The vehicle was also nicknamed Citroën Coccinelle (Beetle in French).

Feb 16

Kankoh-maru. of single-vehicle accidents

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The is the name of a vertical takeoff and landing, single-stage to orbit, reusable launch vehicle family of rockets, and the spacecraft tour vehicle designed to be boosted by said rocket. Although there are no flying models yet, the cone-shaped spacecraft is designed to carry up to fifty passengers to a Low Earth Orbit or intercontinental destination.

Both the rocket and spacecraft would be manufactured by Kawasaki; the concept was created by the Japanese Rocket Society.

The name Kankō Maru is derived from the first steam-powered vessel in Edo-era Japan.


References

  • Encyclopedia Astronautica entry
  • Kankoh-maru Flight Manual
  • Status Report on Space Tour Vehicle “Kankoh-maru” of Japanese Rocket Society
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Feb 15

Hi Hi (Puffy AmiYumi). single

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“Hi Hi” (not to be confused with the compilation album Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi) is a single by Puffy AmiYumi released on 16 November 2005.


Tracks listing

  1. Hi Hi
  2. Hi Hi～The READYMADE toon jingle 2005～
  3. Hi Hi～TV MIX～
Feb 15

The T. during transportation.

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The T may refer to:

  • Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
  • Fort Worth’s Fort Worth Transportation Authority
  • Pittsburgh’s Port Authority of Allegheny County
  • The often-stolen ‘T’ in TECH on Georgia Tech’s Tech Tower
  • The shape of the region of Pennsylvania excluding Pittsburgh and Philadelphia (See Pennsyltucky)
Feb 12

TIRF. characteristics and/or

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TIRF can stand for

  • Total internal reflection fluorescence microscope
  • Tire Independent Research Facility. The Calspan Tire Research Facility (TIRF) is an indoor tire research facility for obtaining data on tire performance characteristics.
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