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Garlic chive flower sauce-Preparation-The condiment is made by fermenting grounded flowers of garlic chives in salt, sesame oil, and spices including Sichuan pepper, ginger, and garlic. After it is made, it can be stored for up to a year. Different regions may vary in preference on production methods and the inclusion ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Garlic chive flower sauce-Culinary uses-The condiment can be used as a dipping sauce for boiled mutton and can also be a composite material for the dipping sauce of Chinese hot pot. It is used in small quantities and usually mixed with sesame paste or rice vinegar (among others) to avoid an overwhelmingly salty taste. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Gracenote licensing controversy-Gracenote licensing controversy-Music information company Gracenote changed its database terms to closed-source in 2001. This caused some controversy because Gracenote's ancestor, CDDB, had previously said its database was released under the GPL. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Gracenote licensing controversy-Gracenote licensing controversy-In 1998, CDDB was purchased by Escient, a consumer electronics manufacturer, and operated as a business unit within the Indiana-based company. CDDB was then spun off of Escient and in July 2000 was renamed Gracenote.In 1999, freedb, an open source clone of... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Gracenote licensing controversy-Gracenote licensing controversy-The CDDB database license was later changed to include new terms. For instance, any programs using a CDDB lookup had to display a CDDB logo while performing the lookup.In March 2001, only licensed applications were provided access to the Gracenote database... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Gracenote licensing controversy-Patent application-In July 1999 CDDB filed an application for a United States patent, titled Method and System for Finding Approximate Matches in Database. The patent is described as: "Entertainment content complementary to a musical recording is delivered to a user's computer by means ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Gracenote licensing controversy-Lawsuit against Roxio-Initial lawsuit After Gracenote's change in licensing, Roxio made the decision to find another free music-recognition provider. In response to the competition, Gracenote filed a lawsuit with the patent at the base of its claims. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Gracenote licensing controversy-Lawsuit against Roxio-Gracenote, company that owns CDDB database, has filed a lawsuit against Roxio, Adaptec's spin-off company that develops Easy CD Creator (the most popular CD burning program in the world). Lawsuit is about Gracenote's CD recognition system; Roxio/Adaptec has used the... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Gracenote licensing controversy-Lawsuit against Roxio-Roxio filed a motion to dismiss the case on the ground that the patent claim by Gracenote was invalid due to prior art. The court granted the motion and agreed in part, rendering one patent in question invalid due to prior art. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Gracenote licensing controversy-Lawsuit against Roxio-Countersuit In June 2001, Roxio filed a countersuit against Gracenote. They asserted that Gracenote fraudulently obtained U.S. Patent 6061680 and its CDDB trademark by failing to disclose certain key information to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. On May 17, 20... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Gracenote licensing controversy-Lawsuit against Roxio-Settlement Roxio and Gracenote signed an agreement making Gracenote the exclusive CD-recognition service for Roxio's software. In this way, Roxio was able to maintain access to the CDDB that they (and their customers) had relied on, while Gracenote was able to maint... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Meat and potato pie-Meat and potato pie-Meat and potato pie is a popular variety of pie eaten in England. Meat and potato pie comes in many versions and consists of a pastry casing containing: potato, either lamb or beef, and sometimes carrot and/or onion. They can often be bought in a speciality pie shop, a type of ba... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Meat and potato pie-Meat and potato pie-In 2004, ITV's The Paul O'Grady Show voted the produce of The Denby Dale Pie Company as the UK's best Meat and Potato Pie.In 2017, Martin Appleton-Clare set a new speed eating record at the World Pie Eating Championship in Wigan, Greater Manchester. Appleton-Clare retained his ti... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Adversarial queueing network-Adversarial queueing network-In queueing theory, an adversarial queueing network is a model where the traffic to the network is supplied by an opponent rather than as the result of a stochastic process. The model has seen use in describing the impact of packet injections on the performance ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
MiRTarBase-MiRTarBase-miRTarBase is a curated database of MicroRNA-Target Interactions. As a database, miRTarBase has accumulated more than fifty thousand miRNA-target interactions (MTIs), which are collected by manually surveying pertinent literature after data mining of the text systematically to filter research arti... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Difference hierarchy-Difference hierarchy-In set theory, a branch of mathematics, the difference hierarchy over a pointclass is a hierarchy of larger pointclasses generated by taking differences of sets. If Γ is a pointclass, then the set of differences in Γ is {A:∃C,D∈Γ(A=C∖D)} . In usual notation, this set is denote... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Liquid sound-Liquid sound-Liquid Sound is a method of attaining underwater sound reproduction of music or meditative sonorities in swimming pools, combined with lighting effects. It is also an official trademark belonging to its inventor Micky Remann, a writer and musician living in Frankfurt am Main. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Liquid sound-Micky Remann-Remann (born 1951 in Löhne-Menninghüffen) studied German Literature, obtaining his master's degree with a thesis on Paul Scheerbart. In the early 1980s, he was "en route outside of Europe for a long time as a musician, writer, and 'world view traveler.'" Besides articles in Pflasterstrand and ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Liquid sound-History-Remann performed initial experiments with light and sound technology in 1986 at the so-called "Frankfurt Underwater Concert" in what was at that time the Central Municipal Indoor Swimming Pool (today, the "Wave" in the Hilton Hotel in Frankfurt) as an artistic performance. One of the participating ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Liquid sound-Applications-"Liquid Sound", a computer-controlled multimedia system utilizing light above and sound under water, was first introduced in the early 1990s in a few floating facilities in Germany and Austria.In the Thuringian spa of Bad Sulza, Remann further developed his conceptional and technical knowhow. ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Liquid sound-Applications-For Liquid Sound, for instance, a special stereo set is necessary because one hears differently underwater than in the air: it is impossible to hear from where the tones are coming. The reason is that sound waves go through water about five times as fast as through the air. Due to its higher s... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Liquid sound-Literature-Ulrich Holbein: "Zwischen Liquid Sound, Spiritualität und Zwerchfellatio. Über den Globaltrottel und Ozeanosophen Micky Remann. "Between Liquid Sound, Spirituality, and Diaphragm Fellatio. On the Global Idiot and Oceanosopher Micky Remann." Werner Pieper, 2000 ISBN 978-3-922708-10-0 | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Electronic Book Review-Electronic Book Review-Electronic Book Review (ebr) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal with emphasis on the digital. Founded in 1995 by Joseph Tabbi and Mark Amerika, the journal was one of the first to devote a lasting web presence to the discussion of literature, theory, criticism, and the ar... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Electronic Book Review-Overview-Since its inception, ebr has highlighted works characterized by innovation, resistance to genre, and creative use of emerging (electronic and web-specific) media. In 1996, Details referred to the journal as "a new mecca for cutting-edge fiction and criticism." Initially managed in DIY fa... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Electronic Book Review-Books and collaboration-In conjunction with a trilogy of essay collections from MIT Press, ebr published a thread reproducing a portion of the essays while also expanding, critiquing, and responding to the print content. The "First Person" thread exists as an accompaniment to the collections Firs... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Electronic Book Review-Contributors-Notable contributors include: Marjorie Perloff Joseph McElroy J. Hillis Miller Stephanie Strickland Matthew Kirschenbaum Florian Cramer Michael Bérubé Cary Wolfe N. Katherine Hayles McKenzie Wark John Cayley Nick Montfort Charles Bernstein | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Extreme cinema-Extreme cinema-Extreme cinema is a subgenre used for films distinguished by its use of excessive sex and violence, and such various extreme nature as mutilation and torture. It recently specializes in genre film, mostly both horror and drama. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Extreme cinema-Reception-The rising popularity of Asian films in the 21st century has contributed to the growth of extreme cinema, although extreme cinema is still considered to be a horror film-based genre. Being a relatively recent genre, extreme cinema is controversial and widely unaccepted by the mainstream media. ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Extreme cinema-History-The prehistory of extreme cinema can be traced back to censorship of art films and advertising tactics for classical exploitation films to Anglophone markets alongside later liberal representations of sex in the first half of the 20th century onwards.The name "extreme cinema" originated from a “l... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Extreme cinema-Controversy-Extreme cinema is highly criticized and debated by film critics and the general public. There have been debates over the hypersexualization that makes these films a threat to the ‘mainstream’ community standards.There has also been criticism over the increasing use of violence in modern-day f... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Extreme cinema-Notable directors-Early Gaspar Noé (I Stand Alone, aforementioned Irréversible and Carne) Early Peter Jackson (Bad Taste and Dead Alive) Early John Waters (aforementioned Multiple Maniacs and Pink Flamingos) Early Wes Craven (1972's Last House on the Left and 1977's The Hills Have Eyes) Uwe Boll Bruno Du... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Extreme cinema-Legacy-Pink Flamingos was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2021.Requiem for a Dream and Oldboy were named on the BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Extreme cinema-Sources-Lee, Eunah. “Trauma, excess, and the aesthetics of the affect: the extreme cinemas of Chan-Wook Park.” Post Script 2014:33. Literature Resource Center. Web. 7 Feb. 2016.
Review of Film And Television Studies 13.1 (2015): 83-99. Scopus. Web. 7 Feb. 2016 Totaro, Donato. “Sex and Violence: Journey i... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Extreme cinema-Sources-Fyfe, Kristen. “More Violence, More Sex, More Troubled Kids.” Media Research Center. MRC Culture, 11 Jan. 2007. Web. 9 Feb. 2016 Pett, E. “A New Media Landscape? The BBFC, Extreme Cinema As Cult, And Technological Change.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 13.1 (2015): 83-99. Scopus. Web.... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Extreme cinema-Sources-Sapolsky, Barry S., Fred Moliter, and Sarah Luque. “Sex and Violence in Slasher Films: Re-examining the Assumptions.” J&MC Quarterly 80.1 (2003): 28-38. SAGE Journals. Web. 9 Feb. 2016.
Sargent, James D., Todd F. Hetherton, M. Bridget Ahrens, Madeline A. Dalton, Jennifer J. Tickle, and Michael L.... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Voice-over translation-Voice-over translation-Voice-over translation is an audiovisual translation technique in which, unlike in dubbing, actor voices are recorded over the original audio track which can be heard in the background.
This method of translation is most often used in documentaries and news reports to trans... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Voice-over translation-Movies-A typical voice-over translation is usually done by a single male or female voice artist. It is slow paced, therefore shortened but fully intelligible, usually trailing the original dialogue by a few seconds. The original audio can thus be heard to some extent, allowing the viewer to grasp... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Voice-over translation-Movies-In Russia Called Gavrilov translation (Russian: перевод Гаврилова perevod Gavrilova [pʲɪrʲɪˈvod ɡɐˈvrʲiləvə]) or single-voice translation (Russian: одноголосый перевод), the technique takes its name from Andrey Gavrilov, one of the most prominent artists in the area. The term is used to re... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Voice-over translation-Movies-During the early years of the Brezhnev era, when availability of foreign films was severely restricted, Goskino, the USSR State Committee for Cinematography, held closed-door screenings of many Western films, open mainly to workers in the film industry, politicians, and other members of th... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Voice-over translation-Movies-With the introduction of VCRs in the 1970s, and the subsequent boom in illegal unlicensed videocassette sales, which were the only means of seeing Western films available to the general public, the same interpreters began to lend their voices to these tapes. Many of their voices had a dist... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Voice-over translation-Movies-After perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, when restrictions on Western films were lifted, movie theatres, the state television channels, and eventually DVD releases primarily employed multiple-voice dubbings done by professional actors. However, cable television and the thriv... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Voice-over translation-Movies-In later years, however, the use of Russian mat (profanity) in the dubbings had been a great source of controversy. While many unlicensed recordings do not shy away from translating expletives literally, Gavrilov, Mikhalev, and Volodarskiy have all stated that they feel that Russian mat is... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Voice-over translation-Movies-In Poland Voice-over translation is the traditional translation method in Polish television and DVDs (which most of the time provide the original audio track), except for children's material, especially animation, which is often fully dubbed. The word lektor ("reader") is used to refer to ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Voice-over translation-Movies-Voice-over is the preferred form of dubbing among Polish broadcasters due to being very cheap to produce, and because of its wide use, it seems to be widely accepted by most of the audience. TVP tried to introduce subtitled versions of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Radio Free Roscoe, w... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Voice-over translation-Movies-In Bulgaria Voice-over translation is also common, but each film (or episode) is normally voiced by professional actors. The voice artists try to match the original voice and preserve the intonation. The main reason for the use of this type of translation is that unlike synchronized voice ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Voice-over translation-Movies-At the end of the 1980s, as VCRs began spreading in Bulgaria, it was common to have an English language film in German, with a voice-over by a single person (usually male). These films were most often filmed inside a cinema with a hand-held camera, or low-quality copies of preview releases... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
National Cryptologic Center-National Cryptologic Center-The National Cryptologic Center (CCN) is a Spanish intelligence agency within the National Intelligence Center responsible for cryptanalyzing and deciphering by manual procedures, electronic media and cryptophony, as well as to carry out technological-cryptographi... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
National Cryptologic Center-National Cryptologic Center-Certification body. A body responsible for certify if the Information and communications technology systems are secure. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
National Cryptologic Center-Functions-The functions of the CCN are: Develop and disseminate standards, instructions, guides and recommendations to ensure the security of information and communication technology systems of the State Administration.
Train the personnel of the administration specialized in the field of th... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
National Cryptologic Center-Director-The director of CCN is the same as the director of the CNI, Félix Sanz Roldán. However, the competency of the center's management relapse in a deputy director supported by an assistant deputy director. The functions of the deputy director of the CCN are: Ensure compliance with the f... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
National Cryptologic Center-Agreements-The CCN has signed two important agreements with Microsoft in order to join the Government Security Program (GSP): The first of them in 2004, when an agreement was signed to access the Windows source code, with Microsoft's central servers in the United States.
The second one in 20... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
2-Amino-4-deoxychorismate dehydrogenase-2-Amino-4-deoxychorismate dehydrogenase-2-Amino-4-deoxychorismate dehydrogenase (EC 1.3.99.24, ADIC dehydrogenase, 2-amino-2-deoxyisochorismate dehydrogenase, SgcG) is an enzyme with systematic name (2S)-2-amino-4-deoxychorismate:FMN oxidoreductase. This enzyme catalyses the foll... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Burnisher-Burnisher-A burnisher is a hand tool used in woodworking for creating a burr on a card scraper. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Burnisher-Description-Purpose-manufactured burnishers are polished smooth, typically made from high speed steel (HSS) or cemented carbide, and usually have wooden handles. The shaft profile is usually round, but other profiles include oval and triangular.Substitutes for shop-bought burnishers are often made with other ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Burnisher-Limitations-To work effectively, a burnisher must be much harder than the scraper. Modern scrapers are typically manufactured from harder steels than in the past, and require burnishing with harder materials, making some traditional makeshift burnishers less effective on modern scrapers. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Burnisher-Use-Once the edges and faces of a card scraper has been filed or ground flat and square, the burnisher is repeatedly rubbed at a slight angle along the scraper's edges, creating a small burr. The specifics of the process can vary significantly between woodworkers. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) is a computer software application developed by WS Atkins s... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP models reliability using failure probability distributions for system elements, as well as accounting for common mode failures. RAMP models avail... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP consists of two parts: RAMP Model Builder. A front-end interactive graphical user interface (GUI).
RAMP Model Processor. A back-end discrete-even... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-The RAMP Model Builder enables the user to create a block diagram describing the dependency of the process being modelled on the state of individual elements in the system. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Elements Elements are the basic building blocks of a system modelled in RAMP and can have user-specified failure and repair characteristics in the form probability distributions, typically of Mean Time Between Failur... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Negative exponential: Defined by mean average.
Lognormal: Defined by median average and dispersion (or optionally 50th and 95th percentiles for repairs).
Fixed (Uniform): Defined by a maximum time to failure or repai... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Q values Each element of the model has a user-defined process 'q value' representing a parameter of interest (e.g. mass flow, generation capacity etc.). Each element is considered to be either operating or not operat... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Groups Elements with interacting functionality can be organised into groups. Groups can be further combined (to any depth) to produce a Process Dependency Diagram (PDD) of the system, which is similar to a normal rel... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Group types Each group can be one of eleven group types, each with its own rule for combining 'q values' of elements and/or other groups within it to produce a 'q value' output. Groups thus define how the behaviour o... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Time (T): qT = 0 if component with 'q value' q1 is in a "down" state when time through mission t < t0, otherwise qT = q1 + ... + qm if component with 'q value' q1 is in an "up" state when time t ≥ t0 + (m-1) x Time D... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Buffer (B): if the buffer is not empty qB = q2 else qB = min[q1,q2], where the buffer empties as output if component with 'q value' q2 is in an "up" state with level at time 0 = Initial Level, otherwise level at time... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Six group types (Buffer, Quotient, Conditionally Greater Than, Conditionally Less Than, Difference and Equality) contain exactly two components with 'q values' q1 and q2. All others contain two or more components wit... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Failed but undetected, dormant failure (q = 0). (e.g. standby equipment unavailable in the event of failure of duty equipment. Thus a problem may not be apparent until a failure of the duty equipment occurs.) Up but ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Element resource and repair conditions There is often a time delay between an element failing and the commencement of repair of the element. This may be caused by a lack of spare parts, the unavailability of manpower... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Spare: a specified number of a spare part must be available.
Group Q Value: a specified group must satisfy a condition regarding its 'q value'.
Buffer Level: a specified buffer must satisfy a condition regarding its ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Repair trades repair condition Repair trades can be specified for the repair of any element, and they represent manpower in the form of a set of skilled maintenance workers with a particular trade. A repair trade can... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Spares repair condition If a spare part is required for an element repair, then the spare part is withdrawn from stock at the instant the repair commences (i.e. as soon as the element leaves the repair queue). The ma... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Group Q value repair condition RAMP allows the user to specify that an element cannot be repaired until the 'q value' of a nominated group satisfies one of six conditions (>, ≥, <, ≤, =, ≠) relative to a user-defined... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Buffer level repair condition Specifying a buffer level constraint means that preventive maintenance of an element can be restricted until the buffer level of a nominated buffer group satisfies one of six conditions ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Element state repair condition RAMP allows the user to specify that an element cannot be repaired until the state of another nominated element satisfies one of six conditions (>, ≥, <, ≤, =, ≠) relative to a user-def... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Repair policy Each element has user-defined parameters that can affect how it is repaired: Logistic repair delay: A time period that must elapse before a repair can start on an element. It is a fixed time that is add... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Repair 'good-as-new' or 'bad-as-old': Refers to the failure rate of an element rather than its 'q-value'. By default an element is restored to 'good-as-new' following repair, but there is an option to toggle a 'bad-a... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Repair priority: Used only if element resource and repair conditions are specified (i.e. it is only used if an element has to queue for repair rather than going directly for repair). The purpose of this field is to h... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Probability of switching failure: Percentage probability that the element will fail when switched from the passive state into the active state. If such a switching failure occurs, the element must be repaired in the ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Preventive maintenance RAMP allows the user to model preventive maintenance for each system element by cycles expressed using the three parameters 'up-time'. 'down-time' and 'down-time' start time. RAMP also has an o... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Common mode failures Common mode failures (CMFs) that cause a number of elements to fail at the same time (e.g. due to the occurrence of a fire or some other catastrophic event, or the failure of a power supply that ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Criticalities The criticality of an element is a measure of how much the element has affected the 'q value' (i.e. performance) of the group to which it belongs. Elements with a high criticality cause more 'down-time'... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Time units RAMP allows the user to set the time unit of interest, according to scale and fidelity considerations. The only requirement is that time units should be used consistently across a model to avoid misleading... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Element types Elements that are assumed to have the same failure and repair characteristics and share a common pool of spare parts can be assigned the same user-defined element type (i.e. pump, motor, tank etc.). Thi... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Builder-Import functionality Previously built systems can be imported as subsystems of the system currently displayed. This allows for faster construction of complex systems containing many subsystems since they can be const... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Processor-The RAMP Model Processor mimics the system operating over the time period of interest - known in RAMP as a mission - by sampling failure and repair times from probability distributions (with probabilities drawn fro... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-RAMP Model Processor-By running enough missions over the same time period of interest (different possible histories from the same starting point), RAMP can be used to generate statistically significant results that establish the likely... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-History of RAMP-RAMP was originally developed by Rex Thompson & Partners Ltd. in the mid-1980s as an availability simulation program, primarily used for plant and process modelling. The ownership of RAMP was transferred to T.A. Group u... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability-Uses of RAMP-Due to its inherent flexibility, RAMP is now used to optimise system design and support critical decision making in many sectors RAMP provides the capability to model many factors that may affect a system such as changes i... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Presentation semantics-Presentation semantics-In computer science, particularly in human-computer interaction, presentation semantics specify how a particular piece of a formal language is represented in a distinguished manner accessible to human senses, usually human vision. For example, saying that <bold> ... </bold>... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Presentation semantics-Presentation semantics-Many markup languages, including HTML, DSSSL, and XSL-FO, have presentation semantics, but others, such as XML, do not. Character encoding standards, such as Unicode, also have presentation semantics.One of the main goals of style sheet languages is to separate the syntax t... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Television guidance-Television guidance-Television guidance (TGM) is a type of missile guidance system using a television camera in the missile or glide bomb that sends its signal back to the launch platform. There, a weapons officer or bomb aimer watches the image on a television screen and sends corrections to the mi... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Television guidance-Television guidance-The concept was first explored by the Germans during World War II as an anti-shipping weapon that would keep the launch aircraft safely out of range of the target's anti-aircraft guns. The best-developed example was the Henschel Hs 293, but the TV guided versions did not see oper... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Television guidance-Television guidance-Several systems were used operationally after the war. The British Blue Boar was cancelled after extensive testing, but was later reconsidered and mated to the Martel missile to fill the anti-shipping role. The US AGM-62 Walleye is a similar system attached to an unpowered bomb, ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Television guidance-History-German efforts The first concerted effort to build a television guided bomb took place in Germany under the direction of Herbert Wagner at the Henschel aircraft company starting in 1940. This was one of a number of efforts to provide guidance for the ongoing Hs 293 glide bomb project. The Hs... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Television guidance-History-US efforts The US had been introduced to the glide bombing concept by the Royal Air Force just before the US's entry into the war. "Hap" Arnold had Wright Patterson Air Force Base begin development of a wide variety of concepts under the GB ("glide bomb") and related VB ("vertical bomb") pro... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Television guidance-History-RCA, then a world leader in television technology, had been experimenting with military television systems for some time at this point. As part of this they had developed a miniaturized iconoscope, the 1846, suitable for use in aircraft. In 1941 these were experimentally used to fly drone ai... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Television guidance-History-Blue Boar and Green Cheese In the immediate post-war era, the Royal Navy developed a requirement for a guided bomb for the anti-shipping role. This emerged as the "Blue Boar", a randomly assigned rainbow code name. The system was designed to glide at an angle of about 40 degrees above the ho... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Television guidance-History-Martel In the early 1960s, Matra and Hawker Siddeley Dynamics began to collaborate on a long-range high-power anti-radar missile known as Martel. The idea behind Martel was to allow an aircraft to attack Warsaw Pact surface-to-air missile sites while well outside their range, and it carried ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
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