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wiki_39754_chunk_0 | Pilsbryspira amathea | Pilsbryspira amathea, common name the mottled turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. Description
The length of the shell varies between 15 mm and 30 mm. | wikipedia |
wiki_39754_chunk_1 | Pilsbryspira amathea | (Original description) The solid shell is marbled with brown and white, the brown chiefly as a broad dark peripheral band with a narrower band just behind the siphonal canal. The protoconch is blunt, brown and consists of two smooth whorls. These are followed by about six subsequent whorls. The suture is obscure, appre... | wikipedia |
wiki_39754_chunk_2 | Pilsbryspira amathea | Distribution
This marine species was found off Acapulco, Pacific Mexico References External links
Gastropods.com: Pilsbryspira amathea amathea
Gastropods described in 1919 | wikipedia |
wiki_39755_chunk_0 | List of 2D animation software | This is a list of two-dimensional animation software. See also List of 3D animation software 2D animation | wikipedia |
wiki_39756_chunk_0 | Ingression (biology) | Ingression is one of the many changes in the location or relative position of cells that takes place during the gastrulation stage of animal development. It produces an animal's mesenchyme cells at the onset of gastrulation. During the epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT), the primary mesenchyme cells (PMCs) detach ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39756_chunk_1 | Ingression (biology) | While the mechanisms of ingression are not fully understood, studies using the sea urchin as a model organism have begun to shed light on this developmental process, and will be the focus here. There are three main changes that must occur within a cell to enable the process of ingression. The ingressing PMCs must firs... | wikipedia |
wiki_39756_chunk_2 | Ingression (biology) | Changes in the adhesion properties of these cells are the best characterized and understood mechanism of ingression. In sea urchins, epithelial cells adhere to one another as well as the hyaline layer through classic adherens and cadherin junctions. Ingression is a very dynamic process however, and the first sign of an... | wikipedia |
wiki_39756_chunk_3 | Ingression (biology) | Within birds and mammals, epiblast cells converge at the midline and ingress at the primitive streak. Ingression of these cells results in formation of the mesoderm. The use of ingression to internalize presumptive mesoderm is considered a major evolutionary change in mesoderm morphogenesis within chordates. Within c... | wikipedia |
wiki_39756_chunk_4 | Ingression (biology) | Besides ingression, two other types of internalizing cell movements may occur during gastrulation: invagination and involution. References Developmental biology | wikipedia |
wiki_39757_chunk_0 | Agladrillia macella | Agladrillia macella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. Description
The length of the shell attains 17.2 mm, its diameter 5 mm. Distribution
The holotype has been found off South Africa. The given type locality is unlikely as the holotype does not resemble anything known from... | wikipedia |
wiki_39758_chunk_0 | Orrmaesia nucella | Orrmaesia nucella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. Description Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Indian Ocean off Transkei and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. References Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39759_chunk_0 | Midget cell | A midget cell is one type of retinal ganglion cell (RGC). Midget cells originate in the ganglion cell layer of the retina, and project to the parvocellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). The axons of midget cells travel through the optic nerve and optic tract, ultimately synapsing with parvocellular ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39759_chunk_1 | Midget cell | These neurons show roughly circular receptive fields with antagonistic center and surround; this property is known as spatial opponency and these neurons are typically divided into ON- or OFF-center, depending on whether they are excited or inhibited by photons falling on the center of their receptive fields. Most of t... | wikipedia |
wiki_39759_chunk_2 | Midget cell | They have slow conduction velocity and are very responsive to high temporal frequencies (i.e. rapidly and low spatial frequencies). See also
Bistratified cell
Parasol cell
Photosensitive ganglion cell References External links Visual system
Nervous tissue cells | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_0 | Parasol cell | A parasol cell, sometimes called an M cell or M ganglion cell, is one type of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) located in the ganglion cell layer of the retina. These cells project to magnocellular cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) as part of the magnocellular pathway in the visual system. They have large cell b... | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_1 | Parasol cell | Parasol ganglion cells in the Magnocellular pathway Parasol ganglion cells are the first step in the magnocellular pathway of the visual system. They project from the retina via the optic nerve to the two most ventral layers of the LGN, which is a nucleus of the thalamus, occupied by the magnocellular cells which then ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_2 | Parasol cell | Eventually, the information these cells collect in the retina is sent to various parts of the visual cortex, including the posterior parietal cortex and area V5 through the dorsal stream, and the inferior temporal cortex and area V4 through the ventral stream. | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_3 | Parasol cell | Structure
Parasol ganglion cells are located in the retina of the eyes, and make up roughly 10% of all retinal ganglion cells. They have large bodies with extensive, overlapping branched dendrites, and thick, heavily myelinated axons. These properties allow parasol cells to conduct signals very quickly, much faster tha... | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_4 | Parasol cell | Parasol ganglion cells collect information from large receptive fields, containing both rods and cones. Despite the input from cones, parasol ganglion cells do not receive information about color. Unlike midget cells, parasol cell receptive fields contain the same color-type of cones in both their center and surround r... | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_5 | Parasol cell | There is approximately the same density of parasol ganglion cells in the fovea as in the rest of the retina, another property that distinguishes them from midget cells. Parasol vs. Midget cells
Parasol and midget retinal cells begin the parallel magnocellular and parvocellular pathways, respectively. While both paraso... | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_6 | Parasol cell | Function
Parasol retinal ganglion cells cannot provide finely detailed or colored information, but still provide useful static, depth, and motion information. Parasol ganglion cells have high light/dark contrast detection, and are more sensitive at low spatial frequencies than high spatial frequencies. Due to this con... | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_7 | Parasol cell | Parasol retinal ganglion cells are also important for providing information about the location of objects. These cells can detect the orientation and position of objects in space, information that will eventually be sent through the dorsal stream. This information is also useful for detecting the difference in position... | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_8 | Parasol cell | Parasol cells have the ability to detect high temporal frequencies, and can thus detect quick changes in the position of an object. This is the basis for detecting motion. The information sent to the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) of the posterior parietal cortex allows the magnocellular pathway to direct attention and gui... | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_9 | Parasol cell | Research and experimentation
While neurons are typically studied by the extracellular use of metal electrodes, retinal ganglion cells are specifically studied in vitro. This method allows parasol cells' complicated and intertwined structure to be analyzed intracellularly. In 1941, Polyak was the first scientist to use... | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_10 | Parasol cell | Primates and other model systems
Both old and new world primates have been used as model systems for human vision and have subsequently been beneficial in researching parasol cells. Many retrograde labeling experiments using macaques, for example, have linked parasol and midget retinal ganglion cells with the magnocel... | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_11 | Parasol cell | Retinal ganglion cells of cats have been studied and compared to those in the visual system of both primates and humans. Evidence on receptive fields of cats confirms that parasol cell receptive fields are larger than those of midget cells because of their cellular structure. The same is likely to be found in human ret... | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_12 | Parasol cell | Dyslexia
There is a theory that problems with underdeveloped parasol ganglion cells may contribute to causing dyslexia. Motion information contributed by parasol ganglion cells to the vision system helps the brain adjust the eyes in coordinated saccades, and problems in saccadic motion may lead to blurry vision and re... | wikipedia |
wiki_39760_chunk_13 | Parasol cell | See also
Bistratified cell
Midget cell
Photosensitive ganglion cell References Visual system
Human cells | wikipedia |
wiki_39761_chunk_0 | Bistratified cell | Bistratified ganglion cell can refer to either of two kinds of retinal ganglion cells whose cell body is located in the ganglion cell layer of the retina, the small-field bistratified ganglion cell, also known as small bistratified cell (SBC), and the large-field bistratified ganglion cell or large bistratified cell (L... | wikipedia |
wiki_39761_chunk_1 | Bistratified cell | Bistratified cells receive their input from bipolar cells and amacrine cells. The bistratified cells project their axons through the optic nerve and optic tract to the koniocellular layers in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), synapsing with koniocellular cells. Koniocellular means "cells as small as dust"; their ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39761_chunk_2 | Bistratified cell | See also
Midget cell
Parasol cell
Photosensitive ganglion cell References Visual system
Human cells | wikipedia |
wiki_39762_chunk_0 | Magnocellular red nucleus | The magnocellular red nucleus (mRN or mNR or RNm) is located in the rostral midbrain and is involved in motor coordination. Together with the parvocellular red nucleus, the mRN makes up the red nucleus. Due to the role it plays in motor coordination, the magnocellular red nucleus may be implicated in the characteristic... | wikipedia |
wiki_39762_chunk_1 | Magnocellular red nucleus | The red nucleus (RN), a group of neurons composed of the parvocellular red nucleus (pRN) and the magnocellular red nucleus (mRN), contributes to movement and motor control within the forelimb. Primate studies have shown that more forelimb mRN neuron discharges are observed when the location of the target object a prima... | wikipedia |
wiki_39762_chunk_2 | Magnocellular red nucleus | The RN is capable of projection onto the spinal cord interneurons and motor neurons of signals integrated from the motor cortex and cerebellum. The mRN already existed in tetrapods after they became terrestrial. It became further developed in mammals when the volume of the mRN increased along with the development of th... | wikipedia |
wiki_39762_chunk_3 | Magnocellular red nucleus | Neuron Counts in pRN and mRN
The absolute number of pRN and mRN neurons in the midbrain can be estimated. An analysis of complete sets of serial 40-μm glycolmethacrylate sections can be used to find this number. This was done on six young adult male rats, and a complete set of these serials sections for each rat were ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39762_chunk_4 | Magnocellular red nucleus | The number of pRN and mRN can be used to gain a better understanding of how organisms differ in motor abilities. It has been reported that mice have a total of around 3200 neurons in the red nucleus, while rats have an average of nearly 15,400 neurons. Compared to rats, mice have inferior motor abilities in skilled rea... | wikipedia |
wiki_39762_chunk_5 | Magnocellular red nucleus | Phylogenetically
The RN, consisting of the pRN and the mRN, can be found in land vertebrates and some species of rays. It is defined by its relative position and relation to its contralateral rubrospinal projections, tegmentum mesencephalic and crossed rubrospinal tract. Although a crossed rubrospinal tract is absent ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39762_chunk_6 | Magnocellular red nucleus | Ontogenetically
Separated immature RNm cells first appear around 12 weeks of gestation. They show up in clumps dorsal to the parvocellular red nucleus (RNp). The RNm then takes the shape of a crescent moon ventral to the RNp consisting of basophilic neurons. 18 to 23 weeks into gestation, the neurons then appear dorsa... | wikipedia |
wiki_39762_chunk_7 | Magnocellular red nucleus | References External links Midbrain
Brainstem nuclei | wikipedia |
wiki_39763_chunk_0 | Parvocellular red nucleus | The parvocellular red nucleus (RNp) is located in the rostral midbrain and is involved in motor coordination. Together with the magnocellular red nucleus, it makes up the red nucleus. References Midbrain
Brainstem nuclei | wikipedia |
wiki_39764_chunk_0 | Parvocellular neurosecretory cell | Parvocellular neurosecretory cells are small neurons within paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus. The axons of the parvocellular neurosecretory cells of the PVN project to the median eminence, at the base of the brain, where their neurosecretory nerve terminals release peptides into blood vessels in the h... | wikipedia |
wiki_39764_chunk_1 | Parvocellular neurosecretory cell | Types
The parvocellular neurosecretory cells include those that make:
Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), which acts as the primary regulator of TSH and a regulator of prolactin
Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), which acts as the primary regulator of ACTH Neurotensin, which acts as a regulator of luteinizing h... | wikipedia |
wiki_39765_chunk_0 | Eurocode 4: Design of composite steel and concrete structures | In the Eurocode series of European standards (EN) related to construction, Eurocode 4: Design of composite steel and concrete structures (abbreviated EN 1994 or, informally, EC 4) describes how to design of composite structures, using the limit state design philosophy. It was approved by the European Committee for Sta... | wikipedia |
wiki_39765_chunk_1 | Eurocode 4: Design of composite steel and concrete structures | EN 1990: Eurocode - Basis of structural design;
EN 1991: Eurocode 1 - Actions on structures;
ENs, hENs, ETAGs and ETAs for construction products relevant for composite structures;
EN 1090: Execution of steel structures and aluminium structures;
EN 13670: Execution of concrete structures;
EN 1992: Eurocode 2 - Desig... | wikipedia |
wiki_39765_chunk_2 | Eurocode 4: Design of composite steel and concrete structures | Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings
EN 1994-1-1 gives a general basis for the design of composite structures together with specific rules for buildings. Contents
General
Basis of design
Materials
Durability
Structural analysis
Ultimate limit states
Serviceability limit states
Constructional ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39765_chunk_3 | Eurocode 4: Design of composite steel and concrete structures | Part 1-2: Structural fire design
EN 1994-1-2 deals with the design of composite steel and concrete structures for the accidental situation of fire exposure and is intended to be used in conjunction with EN 1994-1-1 and EN 1991-1-2. This part only identifies differences from, or supplements to, normal temperature desig... | wikipedia |
wiki_39765_chunk_4 | Eurocode 4: Design of composite steel and concrete structures | Part 2: General rules and rules for bridges
EN 1994-2 gives design rules for steel-concrete composite bridges or members of bridges, additional to the general rules in EN 1994-1-1. Cable stayed bridges are not fully covered by this part. Contents
General
Basis of design
Materials
Durability
Structural analysis
U... | wikipedia |
wiki_39766_chunk_0 | The Genesis Code | The Genesis Code is a 2010 Christian American drama film directed by C. Thomas Howell and Patrick Read Johnson, and written by Michael W. Leighton. Plot
Kerry Wells (Kelsey Sanders), a college student journalist and committed Christian, has been assigned to do a story on Blake Truman (Logan Bartholomew), the college's ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39766_chunk_1 | The Genesis Code | The Genesis Code takes on two current social and cultural issues: Evolution vs. creation and end-of-life decisions. Although this becomes a romance story, it gives a look to the age-old question of how science and a book of the Bible, Genesis, may both be correct and told in a format that a normal layperson will under... | wikipedia |
wiki_39766_chunk_2 | The Genesis Code | Cast
Logan Bartholomew as Blake Truman
Kelsey Sanders as Kerry Wells
Jerry Zandstra as Reverend Wells
C.R. Lewis as Shane Thomas
Ernest Borgnine as Carl Taylor
Louise Fletcher as Ellen Taylor
Fred Dalton Thompson as Judge Hardin
Lance Henriksen as Dr. Hoffer
Rance Howard as Dr. Tolley
Ben Murphy as Professor ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39766_chunk_3 | The Genesis Code | Production
The first director, Patrick Read Johnson, was fired and C. Thomas Howell was brought in to finish the film. Director Guild of America rules required that Johnson be given a shared credit. The film was shot in Grand Rapids, Michigan and
Lowell, Michigan. Release
The Genesis Code premiered in the United States... | wikipedia |
wiki_39767_chunk_0 | Actor (programming language) | The Actor programming language was invented by Charles Duff of The Whitewater Group in 1988. It was an offshoot of some object-oriented extensions to the Forth language he had been working on. Actor is a pure object-oriented language in the style of Smalltalk. Like Smalltalk, everything is an object, including small in... | wikipedia |
wiki_39767_chunk_1 | Actor (programming language) | Actor only was released for Microsoft Windows 2.1 and 3.0. Actor used a pure object-oriented framework over native operating system calls as its basic GUI architecture. This allows an Actor application to look and feel exactly like a Windows application written in C, but with all the advantages of an interactive Smallt... | wikipedia |
wiki_39767_chunk_2 | Actor (programming language) | Smalltalk programming language family
Object-oriented programming languages
Programming tools for Windows | wikipedia |
wiki_39768_chunk_0 | Ecology Summit | In March, 2008, led by green entrepreneur, Richard Stromback, and Virgin group owner, Richard Branson came up with the concept of the Ecology Summit to bring together moguls of the corporate world to address the threat of the corporate world on the environment. See also Business action on climate change References Exte... | wikipedia |
wiki_39769_chunk_0 | Hyposmocoma thoracella | Hyposmocoma thoracella is a species of moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It was first described by Lord Walsingham in 1907. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Lanai. External links thoracella
Endemic moths of Hawaii
Moths described in 1907 | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_0 | Revolutionary opera | In China, revolutionary operas or model operas (Chinese: yangban xi, 样板戏) were a series of shows planned and engineered during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) by Jiang Qing, the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong. They were considered revolutionary and modern in terms of thematic and musical features when compared with tr... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_1 | Revolutionary opera | Originally, eight revolutionary operas (Chinese: Ba Ge Yangban Xi, 八个样板戏) were produced, eighteen by the end of the period. Instead of the "emperors, kings, generals, chancellors, maidens, and beauties" of the traditional Peking opera, which was banned as "feudalistic and bourgeois," they told stories from China's rece... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_2 | Revolutionary opera | Origin | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_3 | Revolutionary opera | Jiang Qing was the chief advocate and engineer of the transformation from traditional operas to revolutionary ones, and chose the Peking opera as her "laboratory experimentation" for accomplishing this radical change in theater art. The traditional Peking opera was revolutionized in both form and content. Eight model p... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_4 | Revolutionary opera | The official versions of the operas were all Peking operas and were produced by either the China Peking Opera House or the Shanghai Peking Opera House, although many of them were subsequently adapted to local provincial types of operas. The ballets were produced by either the National Ballet of China or the Shanghai Ba... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_5 | Revolutionary opera | After 1969 several other model operas were produced, including Azalea Mountain, Battle in the Plains, and Bay of Panshi, following the original model in content and form. However it was the original eight plays that were most commonly performed. Toward the end of the Cultural Revolution, the ballet Red Detachment of Wo... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_6 | Revolutionary opera | National implementation
Model operas were performed on stages, broadcast on the radio, made into films, and sung by millions. They were the only available theatrical entertainment for 800 million people, the entire population of China at the time. Unlike European opera, which was essentially entertainment for the elite... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_7 | Revolutionary opera | The new revolutionary theatrical forms were praised as "shining victories" of the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong Thought. An article published in the Red Flag journal under a pen name stated, "The glorious achievement of revolutionary operas marked a revolution in art by the proletariat. It is the major component o... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_8 | Revolutionary opera | The operas are often taken by its critics as paradigmatic of the proletarian-dominated art of the Cultural Revolution, and have been condemned by some as an aesthetic and cultural aberration. Author Huo Wang, a citizen in China at the time, wrote in 1998 in reference to the Cultural Revolution era: "Model operas are th... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_9 | Revolutionary opera | In her book Red Azalea, Anchee Min describes her experiences with Mao's didactic creation, the revolutionary opera. She became a fan initially because there were not many other forms of diversion. "Entertainment was a 'dirty bourgeois word'," but the revolutionary operas were supposed to be something else, "a proletari... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_10 | Revolutionary opera | I listened to the operas when I ate, walked and slept. I grew up with the operas. they became my cells. I decorated the porch with posters of my favorite opera heroines. I sang the operas wherever I went. My mother heard me singing in my dreams; she said that I was preserved by the operas. It was true. I could not go o... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_11 | Revolutionary opera | List of revolutionary model plays The Eight Model Plays
The Legend of the Red Lantern (), Peking opera
Shajiabang (沙家浜, formerly romanised as Shachiapang), Peking opera
Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (), Peking opera
Raid on the White Tiger Regiment (), Peking opera
On the Docks (海港, also known as The Harbor), ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_12 | Revolutionary opera | Later model plays
The Azalea Mountain (), Peking opera
Song of the Dragon River (), Peking opera
The Warfare on the Plain (), Peking opera
Panshiwan (), Peking opera
Red Detachment of Women the Peking opera
Interrogating the Chair (), Peking opera
Ode to the Yimeng Mountains (), ballet
The Brother and Sister on ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_13 | Revolutionary opera | Revolutionary operas after the Cultural Revolution
Although these works bear unmistakable political overtones of the time when they were created, they nonetheless had significant artistic values, and for this reason, some of the works remain popular decades after the Cultural Revolution. Some of the eight model revolut... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_14 | Revolutionary opera | During a 1996 North American tour, the China Central Ballet repeatedly performed The Red Detachment of Women as its grand finale, which caused postmodern audiences in Los Angeles and New York to marvel at the opera's innovative multipositionality and hybridity, in which revolutionary ideologies, exotic nativist music a... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_15 | Revolutionary opera | The three most popular Peking operas are The Legend of the Red Lantern, Shajiabang, and Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. And the ballet that still shows a considerable vitality today is Red Detachment of Women, the one that was presented to Richard Nixon, President of the United States, who visited China in 1972, sev... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_16 | Revolutionary opera | The eight model plays were the subject of the 2005 documentary film Yangbanxi, The Eight Model Works. The film Farewell My Concubine (1993), set in a Peking Opera company, shows the tension and debates within the group when the revolutionary opera replaced the old. See also
Propaganda in the People's Republic of China
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wiki_39770_chunk_17 | Revolutionary opera | References
Clark, Paul (2008). The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. . Explores the culture produced including the eight "model operas."
Lois Wheeler Snow, China on Stage: An American Actress in the People's Republic (New York: Random House, 1972) . A sympathetic e... | wikipedia |
wiki_39770_chunk_18 | Revolutionary opera | Chinese opera
Peking operas
Cultural Revolution
Maoist China propaganda | wikipedia |
wiki_39771_chunk_0 | Castle Meads Power Station | Castle Meads Power Station was a coal-fired power station situated on Alney Island in the River Severn at Gloucester. | wikipedia |
wiki_39771_chunk_1 | Castle Meads Power Station | History
Construction of the station began in 1940, and it was opened in December 1942. It was built to replace the electricity supply from Gloucester Corporation's works on Commercial Road. Castle Meads was one of two 'war emergency' stations intended to spread the risk due to war damage. The other station was at Earle... | wikipedia |
wiki_39771_chunk_2 | Castle Meads Power Station | Coal brought to the station by rail on the Great Western Railway's Docks branch from Over, and by barge. Once at the station, coal was transported toward the boilers by a fireless locomotive, one of only 162 ever built in Britain. It was built by Andrew Barclays of Kilmarnock in 1942, carrying the works number 2126. Af... | wikipedia |
wiki_39771_chunk_3 | Castle Meads Power Station | The station closed after 1972. The station was demolished for charity in 1978 by Gloucester Round Table. References Demolished power stations in the United Kingdom
Power stations in South West England
Former power stations in England
Coal-fired power stations in England | wikipedia |
wiki_39772_chunk_0 | Exeter Power Station | Exeter Power Station (also known as Haven Road Power Station) is a former coal-fired power station on the River Exe quayside, Exeter, England. History
Electricity demand in Exeter increased with introduction of an electric tram system. The City of Exeter Electricity Company's existing power station on New North Road ne... | wikipedia |
wiki_39772_chunk_1 | Exeter Power Station | The station was constructed by W Brealey of Exeter. It was of brick construction and contained a boiler room, engine room, offices, an annexe for economisers, and a tall chimney at one end. The boiler room measured by and was lined with glazed bricks and had a terrazzo marble floor. Boilers were provided by Babcock ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39772_chunk_2 | Exeter Power Station | Initially the station used the old boilers and generating equipment of the New North Road power station, alongside four new sets of steam driven alternators. With the equipment removed, the electric company sold the New North Road station in 1906. The Haven Road power station was opened in 1905 by Mayor Cllr Perry. Ope... | wikipedia |
wiki_39772_chunk_3 | Exeter Power Station | Expansion and later history
The station was part of an expansion of the City of Exeter Electricity Company, with Heavitree being added to the Exeter grid in 1906. Further expansion occurred in 1923, with the addition of Topsham, Pinhoe, Alphington and Ide, and in 1932, with the addition of Kenn, Shillingford St. George... | wikipedia |
wiki_39772_chunk_4 | Exeter Power Station | The station was closed in 1955. After it closed the building was used for a time as a depot for the South Western Electricity Board, and after that as a maritime museum. It is now one of few surviving pre-nationalisation power stations. In 2011, the main turbine hall was converted to house an indoor climbing centre. Re... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_0 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | The Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE) is a non-profit organization and registered society for propagating the profession of Industrial Engineering in India. It was founded in 1957 and is a Registered Public Trust under the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950.The headquarters is at Navi Mumbai. IIIE is a mem... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_1 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | A National Council consisting of twelve elected representative from among Corporate
Members and six representatives from the Chapters is the Executive body of the Institution
which is located in Navi Mumbai. The office bearers - A Chairman, two Vice-Chairmen, an
Hon. Secretary, two Hon. Jt. Secretaries and an Hon. Trea... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_2 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | Membership
There are three classes of Corporate Membership, viz. Fellow, Member and Associate
Member. Other classes of membership are : (i) Honorary Membership conferred by the
National Council in recognition of outstanding services in the fields of Industrial Engineering
and Management Sciences (ii) Affiliate (iii) Gr... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_3 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | Fellow - (F.I.I.E), Member - (M.I.I.E), Associate Member - (A.M.I.I.E), Graduate Member - (Grad. I.I.E) After Graduateship the student is entitled to use below title ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (A.M.I.I.E) This is equal to B.E (Bachelor's of Engineering), B.tech (Bachelor's of Technology) an... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_4 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | Chapters
The Institution has twenty nine chapters, distributed all over India, at Aurangabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Baroda, Bhilai, Bhopal, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Orissa, Durgapur, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Pune, Ranchi, Rourkela, Tiruchirappalli, Surat... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_5 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | Student Chapters
The Institution has two recognized active students chapters in India: ITER and PSG College of Technology. Both are recognized and function under their respective home chapter. Journal
The Institution brings out a monthly Journal entitled "Industrial Engineering Journal".It publishes papers and article... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_6 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | IIIE Graduates are eligible for appearing the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by IITs and IISc. The Examinations are open only for the student Members of the Institution and whose membership continues to remain Valid. The requirements for eligibility to student Membership of the Institution: Per... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_7 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | 1) A pass in the Higher Secondary (XII Standard) Examination under the 10 + 2 + 3 Scheme of Education, of a Statutory Board of Higher Secondary Education, the Intermediate Examination, recognized as equivalent thereto and has at least two years working experience in an organisation. 2) Completed and passed first two ye... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_8 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | 4) A Diploma (3 yrs course) in Engineering/technology recognized by the concerned Director of Technical Education and at least one year working experience in an organisation. In case, a candidate has undergone 1 year service training as a part of the course recognised by Board of Apprenticeship Training, Govt. of India... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_9 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | The Examinations consist of three parts of written papers viz. the Preliminary, the Section A and the Section B. In addition, a project work has to be undertaken and Report submitted for acceptance. A student can appear for Section A papers only after completely passing the preliminary (or exempted from the preliminary... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_10 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | The student is considered to have completed the Graduateship Examination only after his/her Project Report has been accepted by the Board of Examinations. Graduateship examination of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering is recognised by Association of Indian Universities, Ministry of education & Social Welfare ... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_11 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | http://www.iiie-india.com/IIIE/images/Mumbai-University1.pdf http://www.ecindia.org/ http://www.iiie-india.com/IIIE/images/IGNOU1.pdf http://www.iiie-india.com/IIIE/images/The-Institution-of-Engineers.pdf | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_12 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | Awards and honors
The IIIE has instituted many Honors and Awards for various achievements and contributions to the Industrial Engineering profession for members, non-members, chapters and other bodies. All Honors and Awards are conferred by the IIIE National Council at its National Convention. 1 - Lillian Gilbreth Awar... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_13 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | 4 - H. K. Firodia Award - Donated by Mr. H. K. Firodia, Past President - Cash Award, a Medal and Certificate. 5 Cdr Dr. Bhaskar Bhandarkar Award for Visionary leadership ( Donated by Late H. N Thadani , Founder President 6 - Krish Pennathur Shield - Donated by Dr. K. Pennathur - The shield is awarded annually to the B... | wikipedia |
wiki_39773_chunk_14 | Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering | External links
Official Site - IIIE
IIIE Exam Papers & References
IIIE Hyderabad Chapter
IIIE Cuttack Chapter
IIIE Pune Chapter Professional certification in engineering
Indian engineering organisations
Professional associations based in India
Engineering education in India
Industrial engineering | wikipedia |
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