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  2. M'Naghten rules - Wikipedia

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    In R v Burgess [1991] 2 QB 92 the Court of Appeal ruled that the defendant, who wounded a woman by hitting her with a video recorder while sleepwalking, was insane under the M'Naghten Rules. Lord Lane said, "We accept that sleep is a normal condition, but the evidence in the instant case indicates that sleepwalking, and particularly violence in ...

  3. International Plumbing Code - Wikipedia

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    The IPC is the most widely used plumbing code in the United States and is also used as the basis for the plumbing code of several other countries [citation needed].Wide adoptions are important as they help reduce manufacturer and end-user costs by allowing the use of materials across a wide user base, thus allowing economies of scale in the production of materials used in construction.

  4. Industrial process control - Wikipedia

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    This can be done by improving the control of the process to minimize the effect of disturbances on the process. The efficiency is improved in a two step method of narrowing the variance and shifting the target. [11] Margins can be narrowed through various process upgrades (i.e. equipment upgrades, enhanced control methods, etc.).

  5. Irresistible impulse - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] The "policeman at the elbow" test is a test used by some courts to determine whether the defendant was insane when they committed a crime. It is a variant of the M'Naghten Rules that addresses the situation in which the defendant knew that what they were going to do was wrong, but had no ability to restrain themself from doing it.

  6. PCB NC formats - Wikipedia

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    The IPC-NC-349 format is the only IPC standard governing drill and routing formats. [5] XNC is a strict subset of IPC-NC-349, Excellon a big superset. Many indefinite NC files pick some elements of the IPC standard. [1] A digital rights managed copy of the specification is available from the IPC website, for a fee.

  7. Uniform Plumbing Code - Wikipedia

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    Designated as an American National Standard, the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC) is a model code developed by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials to govern the installation and inspection of plumbing systems as a means of promoting the public's health, safety and welfare.

  8. Cooperative Patent Classification - Wikipedia

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    The subclass is then followed by a 1- to 4-digit "group" number, an oblique stroke and a number of at least two digits representing a "main group" ("00") or "subgroup". A patent examiner assigns a classification to the patent application or other document at the most detailed level which is applicable to its contents.

  9. Instructions per cycle - Wikipedia

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    In computer architecture, instructions per cycle (IPC), commonly called instructions per clock, is one aspect of a processor's performance: the average number of instructions executed for each clock cycle. It is the multiplicative inverse of cycles per instruction. [1] [2] [3]