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See: baseline taravana Main article: Taravana A form of decompression sickness originally observed among Polynesian island natives who habitually did multiple repetitive deep breath-hold dives. task loading Main article: Task loading A multiplicity of responsibilities leading to an increased risk of failure on the part of the diver to undertake some key basic function which would normally be ...
Photopic (daytime-adapted, black curve) and scotopic (darkness-adapted, green curve) luminosity functions. The photopic includes the CIE 1931 standard (solid), the Judd-Vos 1978 modified data (dashed), and the Sharpe, Stockman, Jagla & Jägle 2005 data (dotted).
An early Xerox optical mouse chip, before the development of the inverted packaging design of Williams and Cherry. The first two optical mice, first demonstrated by two independent inventors in December 1980, had different basic designs: [1] [2] [3] One of these, invented by Steve Kirsch of MIT and Mouse Systems Corporation, [4] [5] used an infrared LED and a four-quadrant infrared sensor to ...
Sewer Shark takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where environmental destruction has forced most of humanity to live underground. The player takes on the role of a rookie pilot in a band of "sewer jockeys", whose job is to exterminate dangerous mutated creatures to keep a vast network of sewers clean for "Solar City", an island paradise from which the evil Commissioner Stenchler (Robert ...
A cup made from the wood of the narra tree (Pterocarpus indicus) beside a flask containing its fluorescent solution Lignum nephriticum.Matlaline, the fluorescent substance in the wood of the tree Eysenhardtia polystachya
The Grob G 115 is a general aviation fixed-wing aircraft, primarily used for flight training.It is built in Germany by Grob Aircraft (Grob Aerospace before January 2009). The E variant with a 3-blade variable pitch propeller is in service with the Finnish Air Force, [1] the Royal Navy and Army Air Corps for Flying Grading (a pre-EFT flying course) and in the Royal Air Force as part of No. 6 ...
The de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter is a single-engined, high-wing, propeller-driven, short take-off and landing aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada.It was conceived to be capable of performing the same roles as the earlier and highly successful Beaver, including as a bush plane, but is overall a larger aircraft.
The SWB option is equipped with a 2.0-litre petrol engine paired with 5-speed manual transmission, while the LWB option is equipped with a 2.4-litre diesel engine paired with either 5-speed manual or 6-speed automatic transmissions, extra options such as alloy rims, power windows, door locks and mirrors are only available on the 2.4-litre LWB ...