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heliport
heliport airport designed exclusively for helicopter traffic.... Read more |
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Traffic
Traffic Rock band For the Record… Berkshire Poppies Read more |
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ATLS
ATLS n. advanced trauma life support, which comprises the treatment programmes for patients who have been subjected to major trauma (e.g. serious road traffic accidents, missile injuries). Doctors, nurses, and paramedical personnel involved in ATLS receive special training for dealing with such... Read more |
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Escalator
Escalator Background An escalator is a power-driven, continuous moving stairway designed to transport passengers up and down short vertical distances. Escalators are used around the world to move pedestrian traffic in places where elevators would be impractical. Principal... Read more |
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Traffic regulations
traffic regulation control of the movement of vehicles and pedestrians, chiefly on city streets. Formal regulation of motor vehicle traffic was instituted in New York City in 1903; a set of Rules for Driving was issued by the police commissioner, and a traffic squad was formed. Similar systems... Read more |
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Traffic engineering
Traffic Control In the early twenty-first century, there are approximately 5000 commercial and private airplanes in the air at any one moment. The task of the U.S. Air Traffic Control System is to ensure the safe operation of these commercial and private aircraft. Air traffic... Read more |
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Narrative
NARRATIVE. Although the study of narrative goes back as far as Aristotle's Poetics, narrative theory emerged as a distinct field of inquiry only in the second half of the twentieth century. At that point, work on the theory of the novel intersected with structuralism's project of writing the... Read more |
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Exploratory Laparotomy
Laparotomy, exploratory Definition A laparotomy is a large incision made into the abdomen. Exploratory laparotomy is used to visualize and examine the structures inside of the abdominal cavity. Purpose Exploratory laparotomy is a method of abdominal exploration, a ... Read more |
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Midland Canal
Midland Canal Ger. Mittelland Kanal, artificial waterway system of Germany, extending eastward c.200 mi (320 km) along the North German plain from the Dortmund-Ems Canal, Germany, to Magdeburg, Germany, on the Elbe River. An eastward extension of the Midland Canal passes through Berlin and... Read more |
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Cor van Eesteren
Eesteren, Cor(nelis) van (1897–1988). Dutch architect much influenced by Bauhaus ideas and by van Doesburg, with whom he drew up the architectural principles of Neo-Plasticism and the manifesto Vers une construction collective (Towards a Collective Construction—1924—also... Read more |
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Testing's new dome of dreams
...alignments, traffic control devices...agreed to put up $11.58 million for the NADS project, which includes...Inc. of Torrance, Calif...for a secure tie-down to the...first model up is a '96 Ford...all possible road, traffic and weather... |