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Less weight more fun [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Microlight Aviation is still in its infancy, yet in the 20 years since enthusiasts around the world started fitting lawnmower engines to hang-gliders or small makeshift wings progress has been remarkable.
Gratton, GB
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Statistical mapping and data collection of critical equipment failures in the weaving section of textile manufacturing

open access: yesEngineering Reports, Volume 6, Issue 3, March 2024.
The study's foundation is a scenario analysis of a textile mill's weaving department, with the goal of determining the necessity of a reliable and comprehensive plan for scheduling maintenance time. According to the background information and problem statement, incidents of Run failure maintenance and lengthy downtime (up to 60 days) undermine the ...
Bett Brian Kipchumba   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

X-ray and neutron radiography of Late Bronze Age weapons and armour from Western Hungary

open access: yesCommunicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae
The study introduces 2D images of X-ray and neutron radiography analyses carried out on Late Bronze Age Transdanubian combat weapons, a potential shield fragment, armour, and helmet fragments. The results were provided in the framework of the ‘Technology,
János Gábor Tarbay   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Applying Alpha-beta Algorithm In A Chess Engine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Minimax Algorithm, is a solution to reduce the burden on hardware in chess engine. However, a more in-depth method is needed to further increase the search algorithm. One of those solutions is called Alpha-Beta Pruning algorithm. The idea is to eliminate
Heryawan, L. (Lukman)   +1 more
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Bayesian Information Extraction Network

open access: yes, 2003
Dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) offer an elegant way to integrate various aspects of language in one model. Many existing algorithms developed for learning and inference in DBNs are applicable to probabilistic language modeling.
Peshkin, Leonid, Pfeffer, Avi
core   +5 more sources

Radiative cooling textiles using industry‐standard particle‐free nonporous micro‐structured fibers

open access: yesNanophotonics, Volume 13, Issue 5, Page 649-657, March 2024.
Abstract Thermal radiation is a major dissipative pathway for heat generated by the human body and offers a significant thermoregulation mechanism over a wide range of conditions. We could use this in garment design to enhance personal cooling, which can improve the wearing comfort of garments or even result in energy savings in buildings.
Peter B. Catrysse, Shanhui Fan
wiley   +1 more source

Visible hands: How gig companies shape workers' exposure to market risk

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 59-79, January 2024.
Abstract How do gig platforms prevent workers from defecting to a competitor? Drawing on 40 original interviews and survey data from 210 ride‐hail drivers, the author finds that platform companies calibrate workers' exposure to market risk using gamified reward systems.
Michael David Maffie
wiley   +1 more source

What do You Call a Naked Grizzly? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
Homophones are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Examples of sound-alike words are flair and flare, colonel and kernel, and poor, pore and pour.
Lederer, Richard
core   +1 more source

Le projet MP5: Gestion de la maintenance assistée par ordinateur [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
L'année 2000 marque un tournant dans la manière d'appréhender l'activité de maintenance dans la division ST. Les méthodes, jusqu'alors basées sur une approche corporative relayée par des outils informatiques d'ancienne génération, ont évolué vers une ...
Oliger, S, Vercoutter, B
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Too far West (dangerous curves ahead)

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2015
In a career that lasted over eighty years, the performances of Mae West were famous, or infamous, for their power to shock, their transgression of boundaries of class, gender, sexuality and propriety, and for the frequent opprobrium that West seemed to ...
Will Visconti
doaj   +3 more sources

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