Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.1 Adhesion -- 6.2 Adhesives -- 6.3 Adhesive and Cohesive Bond Strength -- 6.3.1 Adhesive Bond Strength -- 6.3.1.1 Surface Tension -- 6.3.1.2 Solubility Parameter -- 6.3.1.3 Viscosity -- 6.3.1.4 Estimation of Adhesive Bond Strength -- 6.3.2 Cohesive Bond Strength -- 6.4 Types of Adhesives -- 6.4.1 Reactive Adhesives -- 6.4.2 Hot Melt Adhesives -- 6.4.3 Solvent-Borne Adhesives -- 6.4.4 Water-Borne Adhesives -- 6.4.5 Pressure Sensitive and Remoistenable Adhesives -- 6.4.6 Cold-Seal Adhesives -- 6.4.7 UV- and E-Beam Curing -- 6.5 Application of Adhesives -- 6.6 Adhesive Terminology -- 6.7 Adhesive Additives -- 6.8 Heat Sealing -- 6.8.1 Sealing Methods -- 6.8.1.1 Bar or Thermal Sealing -- 6.8.1.2 Impulse Sealing -- 6.8.1.3 Band Sealing -- 6.8.1.4 Hot Wire or Hot Knife Sealing -- 6.8.1.5 Ultrasonic Sealing -- 6.8.1.6 Friction Sealing -- 6.8.1.7 Hot Gas Sealing and Contact Sealing -- 6.8.1.8 Radiant Sealing -- 6.8.1.9 Dielectric Sealing -- 6.8.1.10 Magnetic Sealing -- 6.8.1.11 Induction Sealing -- 6.8.1.12 Solvent Sealing -- 6.8.2 Heat Conduction in Multilayer Flexible Materials -- 6.8.3 Hot Tack -- 6.8.4 Heat-Seal Jaws -- 6.8.5 Heat-Seal Failure Modes -- 6.8.6 Evaluation of Seals in Flexible Packaging Materials -- 6.9 References -- Study Questions -- 7 Extrusion, Film and Sheet -- 7.1 Extrusion and Extruders -- 7.1.1 Hopper and Feed Port -- 7.1.2 Feed Section -- 7.1.3 Compression Section -- 7.1.4 Metering Section -- 7.1.5 Mixing Devices -- 7.1.6 Extruder, Screw Design and Size -- 7.1.7 Dies -- 7.1.8 Melt Filters -- 7.1.9 Drive Mechanisms and Screw Speeds -- 7.1.10 Special Designs -- 7.1.11 Extrusion Temperatures -- 7.1.12 Extrusion Pressures -- 7.1.13 Specific Mechanical Energy -- 7.2 Cast Film and Sheet -- 7.2.1 Cold Cast or Chill Roll Cast Process -- 7.2.2 Roll Stack and Calendering Processes -- 7.2.3 Quench Tank or Water Bath Process…”

“…Gianni Garko se vuelve a meter en la piel de Sartana, un aguerrido y justiciero vaquero del Oeste americano. …”

“…Traditionally, the surface tension can be assumed as a force in the unit of the length which can be counted by the unit of Newton on squared meter, or energy on the units of the surface. The surface tension, implies the interface between liquid and vapor, which is an example of the surface tensions. …”

“…The pH of an aqueous solution or dispersion in water is determined with a pH-meter equipped with an appropriate electrode system. …”

“…Fulk's A History of Old English Meter, metrical theory has been brought to bear on questions of poetic style, dating and literary history, linguistics and language history, editing practice, manuscript analysis and scribal practice. …”

“…Relishing in the campiness of rhyme and meter-in the bodily pleasures of form-Strouse's Gender Trouble Couplets, Volume 1 is an imitation for which there is no original. …”

“…Anne Birrell deals systematically with problems of the earliest sources, attribution, textual variants, meter, and structure. Her introductory essay provides a valuable sociohistorical context for this material. …”

“…Example lessons include: 4. The Light Meter and Metering Modes 6. The Exposure Triangle 10. …”

“…This manual identifies the main sectoral indicators and the data needed to develop these indicators; and to make surveying, metering and modeling practices existing all around the world available to all. …”

“…Doyle's hundred-plus proems are lyrical creations resembling poetry, but devoid of any meter or typical poetic structure-and yet they are not strictly prose either. …”

“…The paper draws from IEA experience to identify barriers to demand response, and possible enablers that can encourage more timely and effective demand response including cost reflective pricing, retail market reform, and improved load control and metering equipment. Governments have a key role to play in developing and implementing the policy, legal, regulatory and market frameworks needed to empower customer choice and accelerate the development and deployment of cost-effective demand response…”

“…What worries them, baffles them, and sets their curiosity meter to 10 out of 10? To find out, the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) took the nation’s intellectual temperature, surveying 1186 Australians: men and women aged 18 to 65, from all education levels and locations around Australia. …”

“…Nano-scale technologies is an emerging field of electronics on the scale of a billionth of a meter with integrated mechanical, fluidic, optical, and biological components. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.6.1.6 How to balance UPS availability and cost -- 5.7 UPS Batteries -- 5.7.1 Vented (Flooded or Wet Cell) UPS Batteries -- 5.7.2 Valve Regulated (VRLA) UPS Batteries -- 5.7.3 Modular Battery Cartridge (MBC) UPS Batteries -- 5.7.4 Comparison of Three Common UPS Battery Technologies -- 5.7.5 Battery Monitoring -- 5.8 Summary -- 5.9 Review Questions -- 6 Power Distribution Unit and Cabling -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.1.1 Basic PDU -- 6.1.2 Metered PDU -- 6.1.3 Switched PDU -- 6.2 Rack Power Distribution Unit and Redundancy -- 6.3 Power Feed to 42RU Rack -- 6.4 Data Center Power Cabling Installation -- 6.4.1 Transformation of the Data Center -- 6.4.2 Under the Floor Cabling -- 6.4.3 Overhead Cabling -- 6.5 Power Cable Layout Architectures -- 6.5.1 Star Topology Cabling Architecture -- 6.5.2 Bus Topology Cabling -- 6.6 Data Center Power Calculation -- 6.6.1 Process of Calculating Data Center Power Requirements -- 6.7 Strategies for Power Saving -- 6.7.1 Improve Efficiency of UPS or Remove Redundant Power Equipment -- 6.7.2 Improve Power Configuration -- 6.7.3 Reducing Data Center Capacity -- 6.8 Summary -- 6.9 Review Questions -- 7 Data Center Cooling -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Understanding Cooling, Comfort, and Precision Cooling -- 7.2.1 Understanding Cooling -- 7.2.2 Comfort Cooling -- 7.2.3 Precision Cooling -- 7.2.4 Issues with Not Using Precision Cooling -- 7.2.5 Heat Sources in a Data Center -- 7.3 Temperature, Pressure, and Volume -- 7.3.1 Heat -- 7.3.2 Temperature -- 7.3.2.1 Dry-Bulb Temperature (DBT) -- 7.3.2.2 Wet-Bulb Temperature (WBT) -- 7.3.2.3 Dew-Point Temperature (DPT) -- 7.3.3 Humidity -- 7.3.3.1 Relative humidity -- 7.3.3.2 Absolute humidity -- 7.3.3.3 Humidity ratio -- 7.3.4 Relationship between Temperature and Humidity -- 7.3.5 The Psychometric Chart (Humidity Chart) -- 7.3.6 Refrigeration -- 7.3.7 Refrigeration Unit…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Water-Resources Engineering -- 1.2 The Hydrologic Cycle -- 1.3 Designof Water-Resource Systems -- 1.3.1 Water-Control Systems -- 1.3.2 Water-Use Systems -- 1.3.3 Supporting Federal Agencies in the United States -- Problem -- 2 Fundamentals of Flow in Closed Conduits -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Single Pipelines -- 2.2.1 Steady-State Continuity Equation -- 2.2.2 Steady-State Momentum Equation -- 2.2.3 Steady-State Energy Equation -- 2.2.3.1 Energy and hydraulic grade lines -- 2.2.3.2 Velocity profile -- 2.2.3.3 Head losses in transitions and fittings -- 2.2.3.4 Head losses in noncircular conduits -- 2.2.3.5 Empirical friction-loss formulae -- 2.2.4 Water Hammer -- 2.3 Pipe Networks -- 2.3.1 Nodal Method -- 2.3.2 Loop Method -- 2.3.3 Application of Computer Programs -- 2.4 Pumps -- 2.4.1 AffinityLaws -- 2.4.2 Pump Selection -- 2.4.2.1 Commercially available pumps -- 2.4.2.2 System characteristics -- 2.4.2.3 Limits on pump location -- 2.4.3 Multiple-Pump Systems -- 2.4.4 Variable-Speed Pumps -- Problems -- 3 Design of Water-Distribution Systems -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Water Demand -- 3.2.1 Per-Capita Forecast Model -- 3.2.1.1 Estimation of per-capita demand -- 3.2.1.2 Estimation of population -- 3.2.2 Temporal Variations in Water Demand -- 3.2.3 Fire Demand -- 3.2.4 Design Flows -- 3.3 Components of Water-Distribution Systems -- 3.3.1 Pipelines -- 3.3.1.1 Minimumsize -- 3.3.1.2 Service lines -- 3.3.1.3 Pipe materials -- 3.3.2 Pumps -- 3.3.3 Valves -- 3.3.4 Meters -- 3.3.5 Fire Hydrants -- 3.3.6 Water-Storage Reservoirs -- 3.4 Performance Criteria for Water-Distribution Systems -- 3.4.1 Service Pressures -- 3.4.2 Allowable Velocities -- 3.4.3 Water Quality -- 3.4.4 Network Analysis -- 3.5 Building Water-Supply Systems -- 3.5.1 Specification of Design Flows…”

“…Aquí nos hemos reducido a subrayar los más valientes y los más valiosos testimonios de los grandes hombres del Progreso que no han tenido miedo ni vergüenza ni siquiera asco en meter en sus manos en los millones de cubos donde se esconde, desde hace siglos, lo mejor y lo más granado de los valores humanos. …”

“…Modern and larger horizontal-axis wind turbines with power capacity reaching 15 MW and rotors of more than 235-meter diameter are under continuous development for the merit of minimizing the unit cost of energy production (total annual cost/annual energy produced). …”

“…Combined together, this blend of open and proprietary networks enables the much larger network of measurements, controls, metering and automation that is the Smart Grid. This amalgam of disparate systems and networks is also a major factor in the cyber security concerns facing the Smart Grid today"--…”