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  2. Slosh dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Similar phenomena can cause pogo oscillation and can result in structural failure of a space vehicle. Another example is problematic interaction with the spacecraft's Attitude Control System (ACS), especially for spinning satellites [ 8 ] which can suffer resonance between slosh and nutation , or adverse changes to the rotational inertia .

  3. Baffle - Wikipedia

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    Baffle (liquid mixing), auxiliary devices employed in tank which suppress the effects of slosh dynamics; Baffle (heat transfer), a flow-directing or obstructing vane or panel used in some industrial process vessels (tanks) Baffle (medicine), a tunnel or wall surgically constructed within the heart or primary blood vessels to redirect blood flow

  4. Turnstile - Wikipedia

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    In addition, a turnstile can restrict passage only to people who insert a coin, ticket, transit pass, security credential, or other method of payment or verification. Modern turnstiles can incorporate biometrics , including retina scanning, fingerprints, and other individual human characteristics which can be scanned.

  5. Terrestrial locomotion - Wikipedia

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    A number of species move and stand on two legs, that is, they are bipedal. The group that is exclusively bipedal is the birds, which have either an alternating or a hopping gait. There are also a number of bipedal mammals. Most of these move by hopping – including the macropods such as kangaroos and various jumping rodents.

  6. Keep On Moving (The Butterfield Blues Band album) - Wikipedia

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    Keep On Moving is the fifth album by the American blues rock band Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Released in 1969, [8] [9] it continues in the same R&B/soul-influenced horn-driven direction as the band's 1968 album In My Own Dream. Keep On Moving reached number 102 on the Billboard 200. [10]

  7. Undulatory locomotion - Wikipedia

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    In animals that move without use of limbs, the most common feature of the locomotion is a rostral to caudal wave that travels down their body. However, this pattern can change based on the particular undulating animal, the environment, and the metric in which the animal is optimizing (i.e. speed, energy, etc.).

  8. List of Twin Peaks characters - Wikipedia

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    While under investigation, Leo is hired for his criminal skills by Ben Horne, who tasks him with burning down the Packard Saw Mill with his business rival Catherine Martell inside so that Horne can simultaneously kill his competition and destroy the only obstacle to his obtaining the valuable Mill land. Leo decides to use the situation to solve ...

  9. Cold reading - Wikipedia

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    Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. [1] Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. during a line ...