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Traditional engineering, also known as sequential engineering, is the process of marketing, engineering design, manufacturing, testing and production where each stage of the development process is carried out separately, and the next stage cannot start until the previous stage is finished. Therefore the information flow is only in one direction, and it is not until the end of the chain that errors, changes and corrections can be relayed to the start of the sequence, causing estimated costs to be under predicted. This can cause many problems; such as time consumption due to many modifications being made as each stage does not take into account the next. This method is hardly used today, as the concept of concurrent engineering is more efficient.

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The military budget of Canada is determined by the Government of Canada in the annual federal budgets. Total spending on military matters has increased overall from the 1990s to the 2000s. In 2004, the Department of National Defence received $14.3 billion CAD in funding, or 6.8% of all federal spending. This amount was notably higher than most other program expenses of other federal departments. It was increased to $14.6 billion in the 2005-06 budget and was predicted to reach $16.5 billion over 2007-08..<ref name=”Budget 2006″></ref>

Notes and references

See also

• Canadian federal spending, 2004

External link

• Recent military budget of the Canadian government

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“Starting Over Again” was a 1980 U.S. pop and country hit single for Dolly Parton. Telling the story of a middle aged couple separating after thirty-five years of marriage, the song was written by disco diva Donna Summer and her husband Bruce Sudano. (The story was actually based on Sudano’s parents’ divorce.) Parton’s recording was performed as a slow tempo ballad, gradually building to a dramatic crescendo. Released as the first single from Parton’s 1980 album Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, “Starting Over Again” made the U.S. pop top forty, peaking at #36, and reached #1 on the U.S. country charts in the spring of 1980.

The song was sometimes confused with John Lennon’s similarly titled “(Just Like) Starting Over”, which was released around the same time.

Reba McEntire also covered the song in 1995, taking it to #17 on the country chart.

External links

• Starting Over Again lyrics at Dolly Parton On-Line

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Rokon is a New Hampshire, USA based motorcycle manufacturer who builds unusual 2-wheel-drive off-road motorcycles which are sometimes referred to as a Moto-tractor.

Company Beginnings

Rokon was founded in Vermont by Orla Larsen in 1963 to sell the Nethercutt Trail-Breaker, a 2-wheel-drive motorcycle invented c.1958 by Charlie Fehn and built in Sylmar, California. In 1964 Rokon bought the manufacturing rights to the Trail-Breaker and marketed the bikes from their Vermont office before moving the business to New Hampshire where they continue in business today.

Design

These motorcycles use a combination of belt, chain, and shaft drives coupled to gear boxes to drive both the front and rear wheel. Older machines were powered by a West Bend (US Motor/Chrysler Marine) 820 2-stroke engine, while newer machines have either a Honda or Kohler engine of about 6hp. Collector interest in these very unusual motorcycles has risen considerably following the 1998 creation by Bob Gallagher of the web site Rokon World.

These are a slow-speed (35 mph maximum) off-road motorcycle designed for use in the most rugged terrain. Current models are the Trail-Breaker, Ranger and Scout.

Older motorcycles that have used a driven front wheel are Germany’s 1921 - 1925 Megola and the 1938 prototype Killinger and Freund Motorcycle.

External links

• Rokon World
• Rokon homepage

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A cathole is a pit for human feces. Catholes are frequently used for the purpose of disposing of bowel movements by hikers and others engaging in outdoor recreation. Catholes must be located at a reasonable distance (at least 60 m) from water sources (rivers, lakes, etc.), to avoid possible bacterial contamination of water via precipitation, as well as away from trails. For faster feces decomposition, organic soil is preferred over a mineral (sandy) one. It is also recommended to avoid concentration of catholes around campsites. Filled catholes must be covered with a reasonably thick layer of soil, to prevent access by animals, some of which are coprophagous.

In some areas, it is not appropriate to dispose of human feces through the use of catholes. For example some areas require special instructions on human waste disposal. In rocky places, with the absence of soil, it is advised to spread feces thinly by smearing over rocks with good sun access for faster sterilization by UV radiation and drying. In larger snow fields, a larger distance (e.g., 200 m) from trails and campsites may be mandated, if the waste is being disposed under snow.

References

• Sanitation. Instructions from Olympic National Park.

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Yamoto can refer to:

• the former town of Yamoto, Miyagi, now part of Higashimatsushima
• Japanese battleship Yamato
• Yamato 1, a boat built in the early 1990’s by Mitsubishi which uses a magnetohydrodynamic drive, is driven by a liquid helium-cooled superconductor, and can travel at 15 km/h.
• a brand of off-road motorcycles and all terrain vehicles owned by Patriot Motorcycle Company

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Automotive Technik took over production of the Pinzgauer from Steyr-Daimler-Puch in the year 2000. In 2006 it was taken over by Armor Holdings, Inc..

The company also produces engineering, automotive and military solutions.

External links

• Automotive Technik web site
• Automotive Technik support

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Systematic sampling is a statistical method involving the selection of every k^th element from a sampling frame, where k, the sampling interval, is calculated as:

k = population size (N) / sample size (n)

Using this procedure each element in the population has a known and equal probability of selection. This makes systematic sampling functionally similar to simple random sampling. It is however, much more efficient (if variance within systematic sample is more than variance of population) and much less expensive to carry out.

The researcher must ensure that the chosen sampling interval does not hide a pattern. Any pattern would threaten randomness. A random starting point must also be selected.

Systematic sampling is to be applied only if the given population is logically homogeneous, because systematic sample units are uniformly distributed over the population.

Example: Suppose a supermarket wants to study buying habits of their customers, then using systematic sampling they can choose every 10^th or 15^th customer entering the supermarket and conduct the study on this sample.

This is random sampling with a system! From the sampling frame, a starting point is chosen at random, and thereafter at regular intervals.
For example, suppose you want to sample 8 houses from a street of 120 houses.
120/8=15, so every 15th house is chosen after a random starting point between 1 and 15. If the random starting point is 11, then the houses selected are 11, 26, 41, 56, 71, 86, 101, and 116.
If there were 125 houses, 125/8=15.625, so should you take every 15th house or every 16th house? If you take every 16th house, 8*16=128 so there is a risk that the last house chosen does not exist. To overcome this the random starting point should be between 1 and 10. On the other hand if you take every 15th house, 8*15=120 so the last five houses will never be selected. The random starting point should now be between 1 and 20 to ensure that every house has some chance of being selected.

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A circular reference, or sometimes known as a run-around by some people, is a series of references where the last object references the first, thus causing the whole series of references to be unusable.

Circular references in business

Often, improperly planned business support will result in a circular reference. This is known as a run-around.

For example:

Alice needs to return her washing machine – it’s defective and she needs it working. She is instructed by Bob of customer service to report to Carol of Returns and Exchanges for the requested service. Carol, however, tells Alice to report to David. David tells Alice to talk to Bob.

The entire set of references is now worthless because none of them can satisfy Alice’s request; they have been told to refer to someone else.

Circular references in computer programming

Circular references can appear in computer programming when one piece of code requires the result from another, but that code needs the result from the first.

For example:

Function A will show the time the sun last set based on the current date. Function B will calculate the date based on the number of times the moon has orbited the earth since the last time Function B was called. So, Function B asks Function C just how many times that is. Function C doesn’t know, but can figure it out given — you guessed it — the time the sun last set.

The entire set of functions is now worthless because none of them can return any useful information whatsoever. This leads to what is technically known as a deadlock. It also appears in spreadsheets when two cells require each others’ result. For example, when the value in Cell A1 is equal to the value in Cell B1 plus 5, and the value in Cell B1 is equal to the value in Cell A1 plus 5.

Circular reference as an explanation

A circular reference happens when a person tries to explain or prove something based on what it is they are already talking about. For example, a person trying to prove the reliability of what is written in a book by referencing something written elsewhere in the same book.

In some cases, circular references can be found in technical documentations and dictionaries. This leads to confusions and sometimes also lower productivity in solving the problem at hand than not having the documentation as circular reference.

See also

• Ms Fnd in a Lbry
• Nested function
• Halting problem
• Catch-22 (logic)
• There’s a hole in the bucket
• Regress argument

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Yamoto can refer to:

• the former town of Yamoto, Miyagi, now part of Higashimatsushima
• Japanese battleship Yamato
• Yamato 1, a boat built in the early 1990’s by Mitsubishi which uses a magnetohydrodynamic drive, is driven by a liquid helium-cooled superconductor, and can travel at 15 km/h.
• a brand of off-road motorcycles and all terrain vehicles owned by Patriot Motorcycle Company

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