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• USS Willis (DE-395)
  |Ship displacement=1,253&nbsp;tons standard<br/>1,590&nbsp;tons full load |Ship draft=10.42 full load&nbsp;feet (3.18&nbsp;m)
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• USS Holder (DE-401)
  |Ship displacement=1,253&nbsp;tons standard<br/>1,590&nbsp;tons full load |Ship draft=10.42 full load&nbsp;feet (3.18&nbsp;m)
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• USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136)
  |Ship displacement=1,253&nbsp;tons standard<br/>1,590&nbsp;tons full load |Ship draft=10.42 full load&nbsp;feet (3.18&nbsp;m)
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• USS Herbert C. Jones (DE-137)
  |Ship displacement=1,253&nbsp;tons standard<br/>1,590&nbsp;tons full load |Ship draft=10.42 full load&nbsp;feet (3.18&nbsp;m)
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• USS Chatelain (DE-149)
  |Ship displacement=1,253&nbsp;tons standard<br/>1,590&nbsp;tons full load |Ship draft=10.42 full load&nbsp;feet (3.18&nbsp;m)
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• USS Poole (DE-151)
  |Ship displacement=1,253&nbsp;tons standard<br/>1,590&nbsp;tons full load |Ship draft=10.42 full load&nbsp;feet (3.18&nbsp;m)
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• USS Sellstrom (DE-255)
  |Ship displacement=1,253&nbsp;tons standard<br/>1,590&nbsp;tons full load |Ship draft=10.42 full load&nbsp;feet (3.18&nbsp;m)
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  |Ship displacement=1,253&nbsp;tons standard<br/>1,590&nbsp;tons full load |Ship draft=10.42 full load&nbsp;feet (3.18&nbsp;m)
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• USS Brough (DE-148)
  |Ship displacement=1,253&nbsp;tons standard<br/>1,590&nbsp;tons full load |Ship draft=10.42 full load&nbsp;feet (3.18&nbsp;m)
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• USS Marchand (DE-249)
  |Ship displacement=1,253&nbsp;tons standard<br/>1,590&nbsp;tons full load |Ship draft=10.42 full load&nbsp;feet (3.18&nbsp;m)
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• USS Bering Strait (AVP-34)
  |Ship displacement=1,766 [[ton]]s (light)<br/>2,750 tons (full load) ...ch as ship control, communications, general drills, engineering and damage control instruction, gunnery training, and [[antiaircraft]] and [[antisubmarine]] w
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• USS Yakutat (AVP-32)
  |Ship displacement=1,766 tons (light)<br/>2,750 tons (full load) ...[[Hiro Wan]], where she performed seaplane tender operations and seadrome control duties for a little over a month.
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• USCGC Humboldt (WAVP-372)
  |Ship displacement=2,498 tons (full load) in 1966 ...) 38-[[caliber]] Mark 12 gun mount, 1 x Mark 52 director, 1 x Mark 26 fire-control radar, 1 x [[Mark 10]] Mod 0 [[antisubmarine]] projector, 2 x Mark 32 Mod 2
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• USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374)
  |Ship displacement=2,610 tons (full load) in 1970 ...millimeter) 38-[[caliber]] gun, 1 x Mark 52.3 director, 1 x Mark 26-4 fire-control radar, 6 x .50-caliber ([[12.7-millimeter]]) [[machine gun]]s<br/>All [[ant
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• USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378)
  |Ship displacement=2,498 tons (full load) in 1967 |Ship draft={{convert|12|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}} full load aft in 1967
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• USCGC Barataria (WAVP-381)
  |Ship displacement=In 1966: 1,786 tons light; 2,522.4 tons (full load) |Ship speed=17.35 [[knot (speed)|knots]] (maximum at full load) in 1966<br/>11.9 knots (economic) in 1966
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• USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387)
  |Ship displacement=2,530.7 tons (full load) |Ship draft={{convert|13|ft|0.5|in|m|abbr=on}} aft (full load)
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• USCGC Bering Strait (WAVP-382)
  |Ship displacement=2,498 tons (full load) in 1964 ...8-[[caliber]] Mark 12-1 [[gun mount]]; Mark 57 M4 director; Mark 4 M4 fire control radar; 2 x .50-caliber (12.7-[[millimeter]] [[machine gun]]s; 1 x [[Mark 10
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• USCGC Chincoteague (WAVP-375)
  |Ship displacement=2,497 tons (full load) in 1965 |Ship draft={{convert|12|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on}} (full load) in 1965
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• BRP Francisco Dagohoy (PF-10)
  |Ship displacement=1,766 tons standard, 2,800 tons full load * Mk26 Mod1 Fire Control System<ref>''Jane's Fighting Ships 1982-1983''</ref>
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• USCGC Cook Inlet (WAVP-384)
  |Ship displacement=2,528.7 tons (full load) in 1966 |Ship draft={{convert|12|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} at full load in 1966
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• USS Shaw (DD-68)
  |Ship displacement= 1,111 tons (normal), 1,225 tons (full load) ...tting her on fire. ''Shaw''{{'}}s crew heroically brought her damage under control, and a skeleton crew of 21 men took the wreck 40 miles into port under her
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• Sugar beet
  ...the 20th century, sugarbeet production was highly labor-intensive, as weed control was managed by densely planting the crop, which then had to be manually thi Today, mechanical sowing, [[herbicide]] application for weed control and mechanical harvesting have removed this reliance on numerous workers.
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• 9K115-2 Metis-M
  ...ot commented on the weapon proliferation, although it has moved to tighten control over the use of Russian-made weapons by the importing states. ...am crossing. The three-man crew carries personal weapons and an ammunition load of five missiles. One crew member carries a pack with a missile-loaded laun
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• 4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun
  ...etrates up to three deck levels below the weather deck; deep magazine, gun control room and power room, gunbay and the gunhouse. ...-magazine to pass ammunition to the gunbay. The Captain of the Gun in the control room ensures continued weapon readiness and the gun controller in the Opera
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• 5"/38 caliber gun
  ...y when it was usually under the control of the advanced [[Mark 37 Gun Fire Control System]] which provided accurate and timely firing solutions against surfac At the "load" command, the powder-man slips a primer protector off the end of the powder
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• 90 mm Gun M1/M2/M3
  ...uld direct and lay the guns automatically. All the operators had to do was load the guns. With the SCR-584 the 90&nbsp;mm became arguably the best anti-air * [[Fire-control system]]
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• Chain gun
  ...f the chain is connected to the bolt assembly, moving it back and forth to load, fire, extract, and eject [[Cartridge (weaponry)|cartridge]]s. As with all guns that do not use energy from a fired cartridge to load the next round, a misfired round does not stop the functioning of the weapo
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• M242 Bushmaster
  ...ual-feed system. This system uses sprockets and extractor grooves to feed, load, fire, extract, and eject [[Cartridge (weaponry)|rounds]]. A system of clut The M242 weapon system has both electrical and manual fire control and can be operated electrically or manually. In doing so, the gunner can c
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• M4 cannon
  ...-1|abbr=on}}. It was magazine-fed and could be fired manually or by remote control through a [[solenoid]] mounted on the rear of the gun. ...as against {{convert|23|gr|g|abbr=on}} for the pellet used with the tetryl load.
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• Mark 14 torpedo
  ...development of the weapon. The dummy warhead was lighter than the wartime load. Additionally, the depth mechanism was designed prior to the warhead's char ...inally conceded the Mark 14 ran deep, and six weeks later, "that its depth-control mechanism had been 'improperly designed and tested'".<ref name="Blair, p.27
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• Phalanx CIWS
  ...unit, the mounting houses the gun, an automated [[fire-control system|fire control system]] and all other major components, enabling it to automatically searc ...e first antenna, for searching, is located inside the radome on the weapon control group (top of the white-painted portion). The search subsystem provides be
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• QF 3 inch 20 cwt
  ...8 seconds ahead, determine the deflection and set the correct fuze length, load, aim and fire accordingly. Deflection was calculated mechanically and grap Britain supplied 24 Mk 3 guns and 7 M/34 mechanical fire control computers to Finland during the [[Winter War]] of 30 November 1939 - March
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  ...USS ''Iowa'']]. After the 1950s, GCFSs were integrated with missile [[fire-control system]]s and other ship sensors. ...vOrdAndGunV2">{{cite book|title =NAVAL ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY, VOLUME 2 FIRE CONTROL, NAVPERS 10798-A|publisher =U.S. Navy, Bureau of Naval Personnel|date =1958
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• Alternator
  ...rotor. Automotive alternators invariably use a rotor winding, which allows control of the alternator generated voltage by varying the current in the rotor fie ...iron loss, copper loss, and the voltage drop in the diode bridges; at part load, [[Energy conversion efficiency|efficiency]] is between 50-62% depending on
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• Hydroelectric
  ...A small hydro development may be installed along with a project for flood control, irrigation or other purposes, providing extra revenue for project costs. I ...griculture]] with a relatively constant water supply. Large hydro dams can control floods, which would otherwise affect people living downstream of the projec
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• Chloroquine
  ...loroquine alone, but is no longer recommended by the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]] due to the availability of more effective combinations ...ased during malaria fever, its severity correlated to the malaria parasite load in blood. There is evidence that it has a genetic basis and is related to c
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• Vancomycin
  ...he PCP domain uses the attached 4’-phosphopantethein prosthetic group to load the growing peptide chain and their precursors.<ref name="pmid12167866">{{c ...es for use by the [[Centers for Disease Control]] (CDC) Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. These guidelines restrict use of vancomycin t
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• Nevirapine
  Nevirapine in triple combination therapy has been shown to suppress [[viral load]] effectively when used as initial antiretroviral therapy (''i.e.'', in ant ...about nevirapine-based regimens in those starting therapy with high viral load or low CD4 count, some analyses suggest that nevirapine may be effective in
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• Cortisol
  Sodium load augments the intense potassium excretion by cortisol, and [[corticosterone] ...peptide, [[corticotropin releasing hormone]] (CRH), which is under nervous control. CRH acts synergistically with [[arginine vasopressin]], [[angiotensin II]]
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• Homeostasis
  ...nimals. Humans are nature's ultimate example of "regulators" because they control their parameters in a variety of climates and conditions. ...adaptation (biology)|adaptation]]s allow endothermic animals to exert some control over a given parameter. For instance, [[reptile]]s often rest on [[sun]]-he
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• Viscometer
  ...can be adopted for many different conditions, making it ideal for process control environment. ...ng the level upwards decreases the load and speed, downwards increases the load and speed.
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• Thermoplastic elastomer
  ...dyes. Besides that, it consumes less energy and closer and more economical control of product quality is possible. ...thermoset are relatively high cost of raw materials, general inability to load TPEs with low cost fillers such as carbon black (therefore preventing TPEs
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• Polyethylene terephthalate
  <!-- Dead note "<vic>": Deformation temperature at 10 kN needle load <small> --> #Flake quality control
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• Particle size distribution
  ...tanding its physical and chemical properties. It affects the strength and load-bearing properties of rocks and soils. It affects the reactivity of solids ...for decades in the Air Pollution Control industry (data used for design of control devices). This technique determines particle size as a function of settlin
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• Aerogel
  ...it is prone to shattering, it is very strong structurally. Its impressive load bearing abilities are due to the [[dendrite (metal)|dendritic]] microstruct *Arms control experts speculate it is used to transform radiation into pressure in multis
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• Polyphenyl ether
  ...diation resistance. In addition, PPEs demonstrate better wear control and load-carrying ability than mineral oils, especially when used in bearings.
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• Lime mortar
  ...aditional coarse plaster mix also had horse hair added for reinforcing and control of shrinkage, important when plastering to wooden laths and for base (or du ...rs are often protected with damp hessian sheeting or sprayed with water to control the drying rates.
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• Cold formed steel
  ...heodore V. Galambos (AISI, 1991).<ref>American Iron and Steel Institute, ''Load and Resistance Factor Design Specification for Cold-Formed Steel Structural ...inia.aspx], constructed around 1925 in Lynchburg, Virginia. The walls were load bearing masonry, but the floor system was framed with double back- to- back
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• Engineered cementitious composite
  ...lightweight ECC has superior compressive and tensile strength, crack-width control, and damage tolerance. Applications include floating homes, barges, and can ...of pipes was first developed in 1998. Extruded ECC pipies have both higher load capacity and higher deformability than any other extruded fiber-reinforced
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