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  2. Trunnion - Wikipedia

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    A trunnion (from Old French trognon 'trunk') [1] is a cylindrical protrusion used as a mounting or pivoting point. First associated with cannons, they are an important military development. First associated with cannons, they are an important military development.

  3. Study of animal locomotion - Wikipedia

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    Legged locomotion is the dominant form of terrestrial locomotion, the movement on land.The motion of limbs is quantified by the kinematics of the limb itself (intralimb kinematics) and the coordination between limbs (interlimb kinematics).

  4. Bascule bridge - Wikipedia

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    The rolling lift trunnion (sometimes a "Scherzer" rolling lift), raises the span by rolling on a track resembling a rocking-chair base. The "Scherzer" rolling lift is a refinement patented in 1893 by American engineer William Donald Scherzer. [3] The rarer Rall type combines rolling lift with longitudinal motion on trunnions when opening. [4]

  5. Systems biology - Wikipedia

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    Systems biology is the computational and mathematical analysis and modeling of complex biological systems.It is a biology-based interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on complex interactions within biological systems, using a holistic approach (holism instead of the more traditional reductionism) to biological research.

  6. SlideShare - Wikipedia

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    SlideShare is an American hosting service, now owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos. Users can upload files privately or publicly in PowerPoint, Word, or PDF format. Content can then be viewed on the site itself, on mobile devices or embedded on other sites.

  7. Slide hosting service - Wikipedia

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    A slide hosting service is a website that allows users to upload, view, comment, and share slideshows created with presentation programs.According to Alexa and Compete rankings, the most popular slide hosting services include websites such as SlideShare, [1] MyPlick, [2] Slideboom, [3] SlideServe, [4] SlideWorld [5] and SlidePub.

  8. Lift (force) - Wikipedia

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    Lift is proportional to the density of the air and approximately proportional to the square of the flow speed. Lift also depends on the size of the wing, being generally proportional to the wing's area projected in the lift direction. In calculations it is convenient to quantify lift in terms of a lift coefficient based on these factors.

  9. Insect flight - Wikipedia

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    Clap and fling, or the Weis-Fogh mechanism, discovered by the Danish zoologist Torkel Weis-Fogh, is a lift generation method utilized during small insect flight. [17] As insect sizes become less than 1 mm, viscous forces become dominant and the efficacy of lift generation from an airfoil decreases drastically. Starting from the clap position ...