By: gaga | 2010-12-28 | Business Calender process Calender machine The calender is a series of hard pressure rollers at the end of a papermaking process (on-line). Those that are used separate from the process (off-line) are also called "supercalenders". The purpose of a calender is to smooth out the paper for printing and writing on it, and to increase the gloss on the surface. The word "calender" itself is a derivation of the word kylindros, the Greek word for "cylinder". In the past read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-20 | Business Types of gong Suspended gongs are played with beaters and are of two main types: flat faced discs either with or without a turned edge, and gongs with a raised center boss. In general, the larger the gong, the larger and softer the beater. In Western symphonic music the flat faced gongs are generally referred to as tam-tams to distinguish them from their bossed counterparts, although the term "gong" is correct to use for either type. The gong has been an ancient Chinese custom for many eras read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-17 | Business History Origins and entry into the video game market (19451989). Sega was founded in 1940 as Standard Games (later Service Games) in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, by Marty Bromely, Irving Bromberg, and James Humpert to provide coin-operated amusements for American servicemen on military bases. Bromely suggested that the company move to Tokyo, Japan in 1951 and in May 1952 "SErvice GAmes of Japan" was registered. In 1954, another American businessman, David Rosen read more
By: gaga | 2010-12-30 | Business Games in the series The series includes: Set in the Roman Empire: Caesar (1992) Caesar II (1995) Caesar III (1998) Caesar IV (2006) Set in ancient Egypt: Pharaoh (1999) Expansion Queen of the Nile: Cleopatra (2000) Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile (2004) Set in ancient Greece: Master of Olympus - Zeus (2000) Expansion Master of Atlantis - Poseidon (2001) Set in ancient China: Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (2002) Series concepts and mechanics While the series visually changed from the read more
By: Eduardo Gentry | 2011-04-10 | Business The cope with or lever will be inline with the port placement letting you "see" the valve''s placement. The ball valve, along with the butterfly valve and plug valve, are element of the household of q... read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-01 | Business Principle of operation A photodiode is a PN junction or PIN structure. When a photon of sufficient energy strikes the diode, it excites an electron, thereby creating a mobile electron and a positively charged electron hole. If the absorption occurs in the junction's depletion region, or one diffusion length away from it, these carriers are swept from the junction by the built-in field of the depletion region. Thus holes move toward the anode, and electrons toward the cathode read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-13 | Business An electrostatic potential map of the nitrate ion (NO3). Areas coloured red are lower in energy than areas coloured yellow A polyatomic ion, also known as a molecular ion, is a charged species (ion) composed of two or more atoms covalently bonded or of a metal complex that can be considered as acting as a single unit in the context of acid and base chemistry or in the formation of salts. The prefix poly- means many in Greek, but even ions of two atoms are commonly referred to as polyatomic read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-25 | Business Properties Vapor refers to a gas phase at a temperature where the same substance can also exist in the liquid or solid state, below the critical temperature of the substance. If the vapor is in contact with a liquid or solid phase, the two phases will be in a state of equilibrium. The term gas refers to a compressible fluid phase. Fixed gases are gases for which no liquid or solid can form at the temperature of the gas (such as air at typical ambient temperatures) read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-13 | Business Early years The only child of a German working class family, Dewey was exposed to water at an early age through his babysitter who was a lifeguard at a nearby pool. His father, Earl, was a truck driver and his mother, Gladys, worked at Denver's Nabisco cracker factory. At the age of 5, his family moved to Manhattan Beach, California. The local surf club included relatively well-known surfers such as Dale Velzy, Bob Hogan, and Barney Biggs read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-04 | Business Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2008) Various types of concealer, matched to skin tone. A concealer or colour corrector is a type of makeup used to mask pimples, dark circles and other small blemishes visible on the skin. Concealers usually do a good job of hiding blemishes by blending the imprefection into the surrounding skin tone. This product is mainly used by women read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-15 | Business History The history of Savagnin is complicated, and not helped by its rather unstable genome. The story starts with the ancient Traminer variety, a green-skinned grape recorded in the Tyrolean village of Tramin (Termeno) from ca. 1000 until the 16th century (this region now encompasses the Italian province of Bolzano-Bozen). The famous ampelographer Pierre Galet thought that Traminer was identical to the green-skinned Savagnin Blanc in the Jura read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-04 | Business Fields Automotive engineers are involved in almost every aspect of designing cars and trucks, from the initial concepts right through to manufacturing them. Broadly speaking, automotive engineers are separated into three main streams: product engineering, development engineering and manufacturing engineering. Product engineer (also called design engineer), that would design components/systems (i.e. brake engineer and battery engineer). This engineer designs and tests a part read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-06 | Business Cheating in poker is any behavior outside the rules that is intended to give an unfair advantage to one or more players. Cheating can be done many ways, including collusion, sleight-of-hand (such as bottom dealing or stacking the deck), or the use of physical objects such as marked cards or holdout devices. Cheating occurs in both friendly games and casinos. Cheats may operate alone, but also may operate in teams or small groups read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-11 | Business Overview LRG focuses primarily on the design, production, and marketing of streetwear clothing and accessories. The independent clothing company has branded the underground hip-hop generation, being worn by hip-hop celebrities Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco. The LRG brand has consistently reinvented itself and influenced the direction of the Hip Hop clothing world. The company also supports independent, underground read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-11 | Business Operation The central element of the barrel piano was a wooden barrel that contained strategically placed pins that would control the music when the barrel was turned. The operator used a hand crank for this purpose, and could control the speed of the music by turning the crank slower or faster. Barrels typically contained a small number of short tunes; therefore, the musical repertoire was limited by the number of barrels one could afford and transport around read more