the curse of machinery

... in{5} them that the evils of bad administration are to be located The fault lies with the officials themselves, who are the victims of the stupid system which has placed them in the position they ... not the nomenclature of appointments, the subdivision of departmental work, and such matters of detail, that stand in need of the reformer The titles and duties of the several officials are of ... forms the intellectual food of the vast majority of the public It is wholly unjustifiable and illogical to blame them They are not founders of new schools of thought in the field of literature; they...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22

Ngày tải lên: 07/04/2014, 02:32

... one of the puhonuas of Hawaii, of which we had so often heard the chiefs and others speak There are only two on the island; the one which we were then examining, and another at Waipio, on the ... about the weather, the dearth of paying tourists on the island and the first bad signs of what some of them saw as the imminent collapse of the local real estate market Hawaii had been the only ... sixteen-foot wave by the time it hits Kona There is no other place in the world that so consistently bears the brunt of other people's weather The Kona Coast is on the leeward side of the Big Island,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 01:41

... metabolic stress; and the absence of glutamine in the amino acid solutions may have contributed to infectious morbidity risk and outcome [14] The final concern is that in the era of tight glycaemic ... from the signs of overfeeding Hyperglycaemia in the past would have resulted in a reduction in the feed delivery, although avoiding hyperglycaemia insulin therapy will simply facilitate the metabolic ... has little to with the route of nutrition but everything to with the content and amount of nutrition In intensive care modern PN does not carry increased risk [9]; indeed the EN v PN debate was...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... muttered Of course sometimes they didn’t pull the brain out the nose Sometimes they just sliced off the head Then they drained the brains out through the neck and put the head back on the body They ... make a sound The lid creaked and opened another inch Another inch I lowered the flashlight to the opening, the light quivering with my hand From the dark depths of the ancient coffin, I saw two ... heading in the wrong direction altogether,” Uncle Ben told the workers, scratching the bald spot on the back of his head The tunnel might be over there.” He pointed to the wall on the right “No,...

Ngày tải lên: 03/12/2015, 19:07

... saw Aaron on the other side of the flames He was goofing with two other guys They were wrestling around, trying to shove each other off the log I sighed Aaron has already made a bunch of friends, ... didn’t finish the song Two older girls sat down on the other end of my log They looked about fifteen or sixteen I turned to say hi to them But they were busy talking One of them had a bag of Gummi ... “Find a buddy The canoes are over there.” She pointed, then trotted away Canoes splashed into the water The slap of the wooden paddles echoed around the shore I ran to the stack of canoes, searching...

Ngày tải lên: 03/12/2015, 19:44

... between the tooth Thus wstR = rstθ st (15.2-31) The width of slot between the base of the tips is taken as the average of the distance of the chord length of the inner corners of the tooth tips at the ... rsi, θtb the angle spanned by the tooth at radius rsb, wtb the width of the tooth base, dtb the depth of the tooth base, dtte the depth of the tooth tip edge, and dttc the depth of the tooth ... leo is the end winding offset, which is the amount of overhang of the end winding between the end of the stator stack and the end winding bundle The end winding offset is a function of the manufacturing...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 18:55

... THE U NITED S TATES : T HE R ISE OF A F ORMIDABLE M ACHINERY The Intersection of the Criminal Justice System and Immigration Enforcement One of the most important and potent developments of the ... share of the unauthorized population is likely to be comprised of those who have been admitted properly through ports of entry and overstay their visas As a result, the relative share of the unauthorized ... interoperability of data systems Workplace enforcement The intersection of the criminal justice system and immigration enforcement Detention and removal53 of noncitizens describes the totality of the immigration...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 22:20

... and is defined as the angle between the output link and the coupler * It is usually taken as the absolute value of the acute angle of the pair of angles at the intersection of the two links and ... out of the sprocket hole The abrupt transition of direction at the cusp allows the hook to back out of the hole without jarring the film, which would make the image jump on the screen as the ... Grashof crankrocker, then one cognate will be also, and the other will be a Grashof double rocker The minimum transmission angle of the crank-rocker cognate will be the same as that of the original...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:23

... will then be the negative of the one found, due to the mirror symmetry of the two toggle positions about the ground link as shown in Figure 4-16 (p 171) Program FOURBARcomputes the values of these ... by the rotation of the input rocker, link 2, through an as yet unspecified angle ~z Note also that the angle of the coupler link at each of the precision positions is defined by the angles of the ... solve for the coordinates of vectors W, Z, D, and S, which define not only the lengths of those links but also the locations of the fixed pivots Oz and 04 in the plane and the lengths oflinks and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 13:20

... represents the absolute acceleration of some general point P referenced to the origin of the global coordinate system The right side defines it as the sum of the absolute acceleration of some other ... fixed centrode and the circumference of the tire is the moving centrode The tire is, in effect, the coupler of a linkless fourbar linkage All points on the contact surface of the tire move along ... roll the moving centrode (which is link 3) against the fixed centrode (which is link 1), the complex motion of link will be identical to that of the original linkage All of the coupler curves of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 13:20

... defined as the smallest circle which can be drawn tangent to the locus of the centerline of the follower as shown in Figure 8-39 The locus of the centerline of the follower is called the pitch ... PRESSURE ANGLE The pressure angle is the angle between the direction of motion (velocity) of the follower and the direction of the axis oftransmission.* When = 0, all the transmitted ... shows the geometry of a earn and translating roller follower in an arbitrary position This shows the general case in that the axis of motion of the follower does not intersect the center of the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 13:20

... experienced the result of "missing the center of percussion" when you hit a baseball or softball with the wrong spot on the bat The "right place on the bat" to hit the ball is the center of percussion ... accurately determine the best sizes and shapes of the parts We must estimate the masses of the links and other parts of the design in order to make a first pass at the calculation We will then have to ... lower the axis of the driveshaft below the center of the rear axle to reduce the "driveshaft hump" in the back seat Noncircular Gears Noncircular gears are based on the rolling centrodes of a...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 13:20

... upon the choice of radii at which the balance masses are placed The extra mass moment of inertia that the balance mass adds to a link is proportional to the square of the radius to the CG of the ... compute the needed system Is The physical flywheel's mass moment of inertia If is then set equal to the required system Is But if the moments of inertia of the other rotating elements on the same ... the negative of the driving torque T12' Rl is the position vector from Oz to 04 (i.e., link 1), and F41 is the force of the rocker on the ground plane In a general linkage, the magnitude of the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 13:20

... upon the choice of radii at which the balance masses are placed The extra mass moment of inertia that the balance mass adds to a link is proportional to the square of the radius to the CG of the ... compute the needed system Is The physical flywheel's mass moment of inertia If is then set equal to the required system Is But if the moments of inertia of the other rotating elements on the same ... the negative of the driving torque T12' Rl is the position vector from Oz to 04 (i.e., link 1), and F41 is the force of the rocker on the ground plane In a general linkage, the magnitude of the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 13:20

... inversion of the radial engine At least it didn't need a flywheel Many other configurations of engines have been tried over the century of development of this ubiquitous device The bibliography at the ... to the trouble of drawing the correct sinusoidal shapes of the velocity plots to obtain the needed information All that is needed is a schematic indication of the relative positions within the ... by the rotational speed of the shafts If we arrange two pairs of eccentrics, with one pair displaced some distance along the shaft from the other, and also rotated 1800 around the shaft from the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 13:20

... means a rotation of the coordinate system through the negative of the angle of the ground link In effect, the actual final angle of the ground link must be subtracted from all angles of links and ... The linkage geometry is defined in the Linkage Data panel on the left side of the screen You may change these by typing over the data in the yellow text boxes The open or crossed circuit of the ... motions of the linkage in the linkage window of the Input screen with the Show button GRASHOF CONDITION Once the calculation is done, the linkage's Grashof condition is displayed in a panel at the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 13:20

... [71] Another prominent feature of Mycoplasma is the lack of genomic sequences potentially encoding a homologues of E coli PAPI known to catalyze the addition of poly(A) to the 3’ end of E coli ... Actinobacteria, the existence of RNase E-based degradosomes in other classes of bacteria remains questionable The small size (ca 450-600 a.a., see Table 2) of RNase E/G homologues in many other classes of ... homologues of RNase E/G are predicted to be present in many bacterial species, they are either partially or completely Page of 12 absent in some phyla of bacteria (Figure 2) The lack of genes coding...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... data be collected from a majority of the services that make up a trauma system The Page of feasibility of doing this prospectively may therefore limit the extent of the studies conducted In addition, ... parts of the manuscript TK has revised and submitted the manuscript All authors have proof read and accepted final draft of the manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have ... in these registries [11] However, quality assurance of the regional trauma systems require data collection beyond the sum of information gathered at individual trauma centres [12] To assess the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:21

... was whether the New York desk of the Federal Reserve could buy them in the market or lend against them as collateral (Note that prior to the creation of the Federal Reserve there was no official ... an eventual return of the price to its official level, some time after the end of the war, was greater than the loss of interest in the mean time (Indeed the suspension of official US gold buying, ... see Friedman, 2006) The machine of money in the US came under the command of the Federal Reserve soon after the outbreak of the First World War The ensuing damage from a series of epic US monetary...

Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2014, 16:55