Orphan date February 2009 coord 28 42 S 28 17 E display title Joels Drift is a town in Lesotho . References GEOnet2 32FA883033963774E0440003BA962ED3 Category Populated places in Lesotho lesotho geo stub ... more details
In geology , drift is the name for all material of glacial origin found anywhere on land or at sea ref Press, F., and R. Siever, 1986, Earth, 4th ed., W.H.Freeman and Company, NY, p. 248 ref , including sediment and large rocks glacial erratic . Glacial origin refers to erosion, transportation and deposition by glaciers . In the UK the term drift is commonly used to describe any Deposition geology deposits of Quaternary age. The Driftless Area refers to an unglaciated portion of North America devoid of the glacial drift of surrounding regions. References references Category Geology Category Driftless Area Geology stub de Geschiebe no L smasseavsetning ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Instinctive drift or instinctual drift is the tendency of an organism to revert to instinctive behavior s that can interfere with the operant conditioning conditioned response. The concept originated with B. F. Skinner s former students Keller Breland Keller and Marian Breland when they tried to teach a pig to put money into a piggy bank. Instead the pig instinctively drifted to it s instinctive behaviour of putting the money on the ground, as they would do with food. Category Behavior DEFAULTSORT Instinctive Drift Psychology stub zh ... more details
Thoroughbred racehorse infobox horsename Perfect Drift image Image Perfect drift.jpg 250 px caption Perfect Drift at the 2006 Pacific Classic sire Dynaformer grandsire Roberto horse Roberto dam Nice Gal ... 2003 Awards honours updated May 11, 2007 Perfect Drift , foaled April 29, 1999, in Kentucky is an United States American thoroughbred horse racing racehorse . Background Perfect Drift is a bay gelding sired by the leading stallion Dynaformer , out of the Naskra mare Nice Gal. Perfect Drift was owned ... and bred, but long ago relocated to Kentucky following his trade. He trained Perfect Drift throughout ..., Kentucky . Perfect Drift started 50 times. The gelding has won 11 of those starts, placed in 13, and came ... Drift won on both dirt and turf, at distances ranging from 6 furlong s to 1 and a quarter miles. He ... Stakes Preakness . Perfect Drift s Derby was marred by being checked by War Emblem and forced to alter course to the outside. This allowed Proud Citizen to take second, but Perfect Drift still took ... Drift won the Grade I Stephen Foster Handicap , the Grade II Washington Park Handicap , the Grade ... , also placing. In this last race, up against the five year old Lava Man , Perfect Drift finished ... problem hindered Perfect Drift s run in the Classic. A post race examination showed he suffered .... But when they become tired, they just can t get the air. For two years, Perfect Drift went ... why we won t be back next year to try it again. Perfect Drift has been ridden by a dozen or so jockeys ... and Gary L. Stevens Gary Stevens , all now retired. Day was up for his big wins, guiding Perfect Drift ... Racetrack Hollywood Park . Perfect Drift ran in 19 graded stakes race Grade I races. In 2006, he took ... in the Classic. In July, 2007, it was reported that Perfect Drift had a small fracture in his cannon ... track at Churchill Downs , when Perfect Drift placed fourth behind Wanderin Boy. He underwent surgery ... of trainer Richard Mandella . In late March 2008, it was announced that Perfect Drift was back ... more details
In probability theory , stochastic drift is the change of the average value of a stochastic process stochastic random process . A related term is the drift rate which is the rate at which the average changes. This is in contrast to the random fluctuations about this average value. For example, the process which counts the number of heads in a series of math n math coin toss es has a drift rate of 1 2 per toss. Stochastic drifts in population studies Longitudinal studies of secular events are frequently conceptualized as consisting of a trend component fitted by a polynomial , a cyclical component often fitted by an analysis based on autocorrelation s or on a Fourier series , and a random component stochastic drift to be removed. In the course of the time series analysis , identification of cyclical and stochastic drift components is often attempted by alternating autocorrelation analysis and differencing of the trend. Autocorrelation analysis helps to identify the correct phase of the fitted model while the successive differencing transforms the stochastic drift component into white noise . Stochastic drift can also occur in population genetics where it is known as Genetic drift . A finite population of randomly reproducing organisms would experience changes from generation to generation ..., and even the emergence of a speciation new species . In sufficiently small populations, drift ... drift in economics and finance Time series variables in economics and finance for example, stock price ... variable. In this case the stochastic drift can be removed from the data by regressing math y t math ... drift parameter in the absence of the random shocks u sub t sub , the mean of the process would change ... no drift. In the context of monetary policy , one policy question is whether a central bank ... case no price level drift is allowed away from the predetermined path, while in the former case ... at each time along its future path. In either case the price level has drift in the sense of a rising ... more details
orphan date July 2010 Cardiovascular drift CVD, CV sub drift sub is the phenomenon where some Circulatory system cardiovascular responses begin a time dependent change, or drift after around 10 minutes of exercise in a warm or neutral environment. It is characterised by decreases in mean Blood pressure arterial pressure and stroke volume and a parallel increase in heart rate . It is influenced by many factors, most notably the ambient temperature, Dehydration Avoiding dehydration hydration and the amount of muscle tissue activated during exercise. To promote cooling, blood flow to the skin is increased, resulting in a shift in fluids from blood plasma to the skin tissue. This results in a decrease in pulmonary arterial pressure and reduced stroke volume in the heart. To maintain cardiac output at reduced pressure, the heart rate must be increased. References McArdle W., Katch F., Katch V., Exercise physiology energy, nutrition, and human performance, Edition 6 , Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007 Cerny F., Burton H., Exercise physiology for health care professionals , Human Kinetics, 2001 Kounalakis S., Nassis G., Koskolou M., Geladas N., The role of active muscle mass on exercise induced cardiovascular drift , Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, Sept, 2008 DEFAULTSORT Cardiovascular Drift Category Cardiovascular diseases medicine stub ar ... more details
Infobox video game title Metal Drift image File Metal Drift.jpg 256px developer Black Jacket Studios publisher Black Jacket Studios designer engine Torque Game Engine Advanced version 114 released vgrelease NA October 22, 2009 ref name GameFAQs http www.gamefaqs.com pc 956433 metal drift data Metal Drift Release Date from GameFAQs ref genre Vehicular combat game vehicular combat modes Single player ... index.php?g id 859&game Metal 20Drift Metal Drift Requirements from Game Debate ref Minimum system requirements ... Series or better. Memory 1 GB Ram Hard Disk 250MB of free hard drive space Metal Drift is a vehicular ... world in an alternate future. Gameplay Metal Drift s gameplay is focused on online multiplayer. Players ... than 12 human players bots controlled by the server will fill any remaining slots. Metal Drift features ..., and Community Leaders are granted black VIP skins. While being multiplayer based, Metal Drift also ..., giving new players the ability to practice on any of the different Drift Decks. Beyond singleplayer ... on a private network. Early Development Beta access for Metal Drift started in late 2008 with the game ... pre purchased the game at a discounted rate to get early access. Continued Development Metal Drift ... 16, 2011. ref name Garage Games http www.garagegames.com community blogs view 20853 Metal Drift Re ... that allow players to shoot through them. Distribution Metal Drift was available only on the Steampowered ... Drift received generally favorable reviews, however some critics found flaws with some aspects of gameplay ... right from the beginning. ref name Out of Eight http www.outofeight.info 2009 11 metal drift review.html Metal Drift Review from Out of Eight ref However, ItReviews found the tactical teamwork and varying ... 3d action games black jacket studios metal drift Metal Drift Review from It Reviews ref Dan Fedler from Gamasutra praised the use of scenes in the game, saying Metal Drift was One of the most exciting ... DanFelder 20100531 5037 And Scene PVP Done Right.php Metal Drift from Gamasutra ref References Reflist ... more details
Onesource date November 2007 Drift mining is either the mining of a placer deposit by underground methods, or the working of coal seams accessed by adit s driven into the surface outcrop of the coal bed. Drift is a more general mining term, meaning a near horizontal passageway in a mine, following the bed of coal, for instance or vein of ore. A drift may or may not intersect the ground surface. ref Paul W. Thrush, A Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms , US Bureau of Mines, 1968, p.350. ref This kind of mining is done when the rock or mineral is on the side of a hill. File W. Va. coal mine 1908.jpg thumb 300px Drift mine entry in West Virginia, 1908. Photo by Lewis Hine . Nome, Alaska Drift mining methods were used extensively to mine placer deposits during the early years of the Nome mining district . During summer, surface deposits could be worked, but some placer deposits were buried too deeply for surface placering. In addition, water to wash the gold from the placers was not available in the winter. Many miners tunnelled into deep placer deposits, bringing out the high grade gravels to be washed at the spring thaw. Most of the ground in Nome is permafrost . By drift mining, miners were able to recover much of the gold buried under the permafrost. Gold at Nome was concentrated in three ancient beach lines, now inshore, above sea level, and buried under roughly fifty feet of permafrost overlain by two feet of tundra . Gold was usually found on top of either bedrock or false bedrock, a layer of clay that occurred at the base of the beach or stream deposit. The miners ... down to either a pay streak or bedrock. When the gold was found, the drift mining began. Once they had ... the population of Nome was more than twenty thousand, many of them drift miners. Nome s gold fields, appearing untouched from the surface, are honeycombed with tunnels left by the gold rush drift miners ... Drift Mining Category Underground mining mining stub simple Drift mining ... more details
Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Mind the Drift Type Studio Artist Big Business band Big Business Cover Big Business Mind the Drift.jpg Released April 14, 2009 Recorded Genre Heavy metal music Heavy metal Length Label Hydra Head Records br small Hydra Head Records discography HH666 175 small Producer Last album Here Come the Waterworks br 2007 This album Mind the Drift br 2009 Next album Album reviews rev1 Decibel magazine Decibel rev1score 8 10 ref name Decibel review cite journal last Green first Nick title Big Business Mind the Drift journal Decibel year 2009 month June issue 56 page 76 ref rev2 Pitchfork Media rev2score 7.1 10 ref cite web url http pitchfork.com reviews albums 13055 mind the drift title Big Business Mind the Drift & 124 Album Reviews publisher Pitchfork date 2009 06 03 accessdate 2012 03 01 ref rev3 Rock Sound rev3score rating 8 10 ref name deller cite journal last Deller first Alex month June year 2009 title Big Business Mind the Drift journal Rock Sound issue 123 page 80 issn 1465 0185 ref rev4 Sputnikmusic rev4score rating 2 5 ref cite web url http www.sputnikmusic.com album.php?reviewid 30494 title Big Business Mind the Drift staff review publisher Sputnikmusic date accessdate 2012 03 01 ref rev5 The A.V. Club rev5score B ref cite web last Gordon first Scott url http www.avclub.com articles big business mind the drift,27858 title Big Business Mind The Drift & 124 Music & 124 Music Review publisher The A.V. Club date 2009 05 12 accessdate 2012 03 01 ref Automatically generated by DASHBot Mind the Drift is the third studio album by American heavy metal music heavy metal band Big Business band Big Business . ref Allmusic class album id r1539668 pure url yes Mind the Drift . Allmusic . Retrieved July 11, 2009. ref Track listing Found Art 3 34 Gold and Final 3 32 Cats, Mice. 3 52 I Got It Online 3 59 The Drift 3 40 Ayes Have It 4 17 Cold Lunch 3 33 Theme From Big Business II 8 43 References Reflist Category 2009 albums Category ... more details
Infobox film name Drift Fence image size image Drift Fence FilmPoster.jpeg caption director Otho Lovering producer Harold Hurley producer br William T. Lackey associate producer br Henry Herzbrun executive producer Citation needed date November 2010 uncredited writer Zane Grey story The Drift Fence br Robert Yost screenplay and br Stuart Anthony screenplay narrator starring See below music cinematography Virgil Miller editing Everett Douglas distributor released 14 February 1936 USA runtime 56 minutes country film US language English budget gross Drift Fence is a 1936 American film directed by Otho Lovering . The film is also known as Texas Desperadoes American reissue title . Cast Buster Crabbe as Slinger Dunn Katherine DeMille as Molly Dunn Tom Keene actor Tom Keene as Jim Travis Benny Baker as Jim Traft Leif Erickson as Curley Prentice Stanley Andrews as Clay Jackson Richard Carle as Sheriff Peter Bingham Irving Bacon as Windy Watkins, Traft Foreman Effie Ellsler as Grandma Dunn Jan Duggan as Carrie Bingham, Sheriff Bingham s sister Walter Long actor Walter Long as Bev Wilson, Neighbor Richard Alexander as Seth Haverly, Jackson Henchman Budd Fine as Sam Haverly, Jackson Henchman Chester Gan as Clarence Ranch Cook Jack Pennick as Weary Camp Cook External links IMDb title id 0027551 title Drift Fence Internet Archive film id DriftFence name Drift Fence Use dmy dates date November 2010 DEFAULTSORT Drift Fence Category 1936 films Category 1930s Western films Category Romantic Western genre films Category American action films Category English language films Category Black and white films Category Films directed by Otho Lovering 1930s Western film stub ... more details
Image Longshore drift.svg thumb right 300px Figure 1. Diagram demonstrating longshore drift Longshore drift consists of the transportation of sediments generally sand but may also consist of coarser sediments ... transport or littoral drift . ref Brunn, 2005 ref Longshore drift is influenced by numerous ... waves which result in longshore transport. ref Reeve et al., 2004 ref Longshore drift can generally ..., which moves the pebble back down the beach due to the influence of gravity . Longshore drift ... the difference in long shore drift of sediments from a sandy beach to that of sediments from a shingle ... of surf zone. ref Reeve et al., 2004 ref Overview Longshore drift formulas There are numerous calculations that take into consideration the factors that produce longshore drift. These formulations ... view into the processes that generate longshore drift. The most common factors taken into consideration ... drift plays a large role in the evolution of a shoreline , as if there is a slight change of sediment supply, wind direction , or any other coastal influence longshore drift can change dramatically ... within the coastal system that may affect the distribution and impact of longshore drift. Some of these are Geological ... to hydrodynamic influences, e.g. the influence of new tidal inlets and deltas on drift. Alterations of the sediment budget, e.g. switch of shorelines from drift to swash alignment, exhaustion of sediment ... on shore This sediment then enters the coastal system and is transported by longshore drift. A good example of the sediment budget and longshore drift working together in the coastal system is inlet ... of features of long shore drift that occur on a coast where long shore drift occurs uninterrupted ... Spit, at the northern end of Cape Cod , was formed by longshore drift after the end of the last Ice age . Spit landform Spit s are formed when longshore drift travels past a point e.g. river mouth or re entrant where the dominant drift direction and shoreline do not veer in the same direction. ref ... more details
Sea Drift is the title of a section of Walt Whitman s great poetic work Leaves of Grass , first published in 1855 . It is a compilation of poems referring to the sea or the sea shore. ref Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass Deathbed edition 1891 92 J. M. Dent Ltd., London 1993 . First published 1855. ref Sea Drift follows the section titled A Broadway Pageant , and precedes the section By The Roadside . The poems included in Sea Drift are Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking As I Ebb d with the Ocean of Life Tears To the Man of War Bird Aboard at a Ship s Helm On the Beach at Night The World Below the Brine On the Beach at Night Alone Song for All Seas, All Ships Patrolling Barnegat After the Sea Ship Musical settings Various works of twentieth century classical music have been inspired by the poems. Sea Drift Delius Sea Drift . Frederick Delius set part of Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra. ref P. Heseltine, Delius Bodley Head, London 1923 , 168. ref It received its first performance in Germany Essen , Tonk nstler verein, Josef Loritz baritone , cond. Georg Witte in 1906, and its first British performance, sung by Frederic Austin and conducted by Henry J. Wood , in autumn 1908 at the Sheffield Festival. ref T. Beecham, Delius Hutchinson, London 1959 , 135, 154. ref A Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams . After an introduction Behold, the Sea Itself etc. , the text of A Song for All Seas, All Ships is taken up Today a rude brief recitative.. . The second movement takes as its text On the Beach at Night Alone. The poems of the last two movements ..., LPO Adrian Boult, text copyright Michael Kennedy music critic Michael Kennedy 1968. ref Sea Drift Carpenter Sea Drift . John Alden Carpenter wrote a tone poem of this name in 1933, which was premiered ... Music New York Hill and Wang, 1959 . ref References reflist Category 1855 poems Sea Drift Category American poetry collections Sea Drift Category Poetry by Walt Whitman Sea Drift ... more details
The drift velocity is the average velocity that a particle, such as an electron , attains due to an electric field . It can also be referred to as Axial Drift Velocity since particles defined are assumed to be moving along a plane. In general, an electron will rattle around in a Electrical conductor conductor at the Fermi energy Fermi velocity randomly. An applied electric field will give this random motion a small net velocity in one direction. In a semiconductor , the two main carrier scattering mechanisms are ionized impurity scattering and lattice scattering . Because current is proportional to drift velocity, which is, in turn, proportional to the magnitude of an external electric field, Ohm s law can be explained in terms of drift velocity. Drift velocity is expressed in the following equations math J it drift rho cdot v it avg math , where math J it drift math is the current density, math rho math is charge density in units Coulomb C m sup 3 sup , and v sub avg sub is the average velocity of the carriers drift velocity math v it avg mu cdot E math , where is the electron mobility in m 2 V.s and E is the electric field in volt V m. Numerical example Electricity is most commonly conducted in a copper wire. Copper has a density of 8.94 g cm , and an atomic weight of 63.546 g mol, so there are 140685.5 mol m . In 1 Mole unit mole of any element there are 6.02 10 sup 23 sup atoms Avogadro s constant . Therefore in 1m of copper there are about 8.5 10 sup 28 sup ... 2 sup A 0.0005 sup 2 sup . The charge of 1 electron is q 1.6 10 sup 19 sup Coulombs. The drift ... Feb 14 ref In the case of alternating current , the direction of electron drift switches with the frequency ... of F 60 Hz, drift velocity would likewise vary in a sine wave pattern, and electrons would fluctuate ... Microscopic View at Hyperphysics DEFAULTSORT Drift Velocity Category Condensed matter physics condensedmatter ... hu Driftsebess g pl Pr dko dryfu pt Velocidade de deriva ru simple Drift ... more details
NOTOC Drift seeds also sea beans and drift fruits are seeds and fruits adapted for long distance seed dispersal dispersal by water. Most are produced by tropical trees, and they can be found on distant beaches after drifting thousands of miles through ocean current s. Consequently, drift seeds and fruits are of interest to scientists who study these currents. In botanical terminology, a drift fruit is a kind of diaspore botany diaspore , and drift seeds and fruits are disseminules. Sources of drift seeds Image Drift seeds, Mozambique.jpg thumb right 300px Drift seeds of three legume species found at Kanda on the southern Mozambique coast in May 2004 br 1. Snuff Box Sea Bean Entada rheedii br 2. Grey nickernut Caesalpinia bonduc br 3. a,b Colour forms of Mucuna Ox eye bean s Mucuna gigantea Caesalpinia bonduc Nickernut Grey Nickernut Caesalpinia major Yellow Nickernut Carapa Carapa guianensis guianensis Crabwood New World tropics Entada gigas Seaheart, New World tropics Entada rheedii Snuff Box Sea Bean, from the tropics of the Indian Ocean Erythrina fusca Bucayo Pantropical ref name CoralBean cite journal url http www.seabean.com newsletters vol07 1.pdf title Notes On The Ocean Dispersal of Coral Beans first Wayne P. last Armstrong journal The Drifting Seed month May year 2001 volume 7 issue 1 pages 5 6 ref Erythrina variegata Tiger Claw Old World tropics ref name CoralBean Mucuna spp. Ox eye Bean, Hamburger Seed, Deer eye Bean Ormosia spp. Horse eye Bean, from the tropics Terminalia catappa Tropical Almond, from the tropics of Asia ref name Geographic cite journal first J. last ... pages 112 113 ref Sources of drift fruits Barringtonia asiatica Box Fruit, from Polynesia Coconut ... concerning drift seeds and other Flotsam and jetsam flotsam . multiple image align center direction horizontal header Drift seeds and drift fruits header align center image1 Cayos pict089.jpg alt1 ... Beachcombing Curtis Ebbesmeyer References reflist External links commonscat Drift seeds wiktionary ... more details
Image Env contamination1.if.gif 325px right Possible sinks of pesticide drift caused environmental contamination Pesticide drift refers to the unintentional diffusion of pesticides and the potential negative effects of pesticide application including, but not limited to off target contamination due to spray drift as well as runoff from plants soil ref name Pesticide spray and dust drift EPA Definition . This can lead to damage in human health, environmental contamination, and property damage ref name Pesticide spray and dust drift EPA Definition ref name Community Guide to Recognizing and Reporting Pesticide Problems . Types With placement localised spraying of broad spectrum pesticides , wind drift must be minimized, and considerable efforts have been made recently to quantify and control spray drift from Spray nozzle hydraulic nozzles ref Hewitt, A.J., Spray drift impact of requirements to protect the environment, Crop Protection 19 2000 p 623 627 ref . Conversely, wind drift is also an efficient mechanism for moving droplets of an appropriate size range to their targets over a wide area with ultra low volume ULV spraying. Himel 1974 made a distinction between exo drift the transfer of spray out of the target area and endo drift, where the active ingredient AI in droplets falls into the target area, but does not reach the biological target. Endo drift is volumetrically more significant and may therefore cause greater ecological contamination e.g. where chemical pesticides pollute ... public concern and research into spray drift, several studies Which? date March 2011 have concluded ... application References reflist 2 refs ref name Pesticide spray and dust drift EPA Definition cite web last first title Pesticide Spray and Dust Drift url http www.epa.gov opp00001 factsheets ... External links http earthjustice.org blog 2010 march npr pesticide drift plaguing rural communities EarthJustice health impacts of pesticide drift in rural farming community http www.panna.org Pesticide ... more details
In medicine , pronator drift also known as pyramidal drift refers to a pathologic sign medicine sign seen during a neurological examination ref name pmid15774443 cite journal author Anderson NE, Mason DF, Fink JN, Bergin PS, Charleston AJ, Gamble GD title Detection of focal cerebral hemisphere lesions using the neurological examination journal J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. volume 76 issue 4 pages 545 9 year 2005 month April pmid 15774443 pmc 1739581 doi 10.1136 jnnp.2004.043679 url http jnnp.bmj.com cgi pmidlookup?view long&pmid 15774443 ref . Jean Alexandre Barr is credited with having first described it thus it is sometimes known as the Barr test. A positive result indicates spasticity . This sign can appear due to an upper motor neuron lesion ref Pronator drift. gpnoebook.co.uk. URL http www.gpnotebook.co.uk simplepage.cfm?ID 503709725 http www.gpnotebook.co.uk simplepage.cfm?ID 503709725 . Accessed On October 23, 2008. ref ref name urlThe Precise Neurological Exam cite web url http edinfo.med.nyu.edu courseware neurosurgery motor.html title The Precise Neurological Exam format work accessdate 2009 11 28 ref or various other conditions including inborn errors of metabolism which include spasticity as a symptom. Description The patient is asked to hold both arms fully extended at shoulder level in front of him, with the palms upwards, and hold the position. If they are unable to maintain the position the result is positive. Closing the eyes accentuates the effect, because the brain is deprived of information about the position of hte body, and must rely on visual cues. Tapping on the palm of the out stretched hands can accentuate the effect. Interpretation This is a test ... drift on that side reflecting a contra lateral pyramidal tract lesion. A lesion in the cerebellum produces a drift upwards. References reflist External links http pediatricneurology.com images PEdrift14.jpg Picture of pronator drift test position pediatricneurology.com. Nervous and musculoskeletal ... more details
The Drift is a post rock band from San Francisco , California . The Drift was founded in 2002 as a side project by Danny Grody, of Tarentel , and Trevor Montgomery , of Lazarus 2000s band Lazarus . ref http allmusic.com artist the drift p700606 biography Biography , Allmusic ref Montgomery left the group in 2004 and Grody recruited several new members for a full band, with several releases following in 2005. The group has released two full lengths and two collections on Temporary Residence , with a third full length announced for fall 2011. Members Danny Grody keyboards, guitar Trevor Montgomery bass Safa Shokrai bass Rich Douthit drums Jeff Jacobs horns, electronics Discography Travels in Constants, vol. 19 Temporary Residence , 2005 Noumena Temporary Residence, 2005 RMXS Temporary Residence, 2007 Ceiling Sky Temporary Residence, 2007 Memory Drawings Temporary Residence, 2008 Blue Hour Temporary Residence, 2011 References reflist DEFAULTSORT Drift Category Musical groups from California Category American post rock groups Category Musical groups established in 2002 ... more details
There are two types of natural language linguistic drift , a wikt unidirectional unidirectional short term and Period of time cyclic long term drift. Short term unidirectional drift According to Edward Sapir Sapir , drift is the unconscious change in natural language. He gives the example Whom did you see? which is grammatically correct but is generally replaced by Who did you see? Structural symmetry seems to have brought about the change all other wh words are monomorphic . The drift of speech changes dialects and in long terms, it generates new languages. Although it may appear these changes have no direction, in general they do. For example, in the English language, there was the Great Vowel Shift , first described and accounted for in terms of drift by Otto Jespersen Jespersen 1909 1949 . Another example of drift is the tendency in English to eliminate the er comparative formative and to replace it with the more analytic more . Thus, we now regularly hear more kind and more happy instead of the prescriptive kinder , happier . In English, it may be the competition of the er agentive suffix which has brought about this drift, i.e. the eventual loss of the Germanic comparative system in favor of the newer system calqued on French. Moreover, the structural asymmetry of the comparative formation may be a cause of this change. The underlying cause of drift may be Entropy information ... as George Kingsley Zipf Zipf and Andr Martinet Martinet . ref Long term cyclic drift Cyclic drift ... of languages open to investigation over long periods of time. Drift in this sense is not language ... , the product of chain reaction s and subject to cyclic drift ref See Henri Wittmann s 1983 state ... of drift. Word order and word order changes, Charles N. Li ed. , 269 305. Wittmann, Henri 1969 . The Indo European drift and the position of Hittite. International Journal of American Linguistics ... behavior and the principle of least effort . Cambridge, Mass MIT Press. DEFAULTSORT Drift Linguistics ... more details
Prole drift , short for Proletariat proletarian drift , is the trend in which class and social signifiers of membership in the lower classes are adopted by the middle and upper classes. ref name class cite book last Fussell first Paul authorlink Paul Fussell title Class, A Guide Through the American Status System publisher Ballantine month October year 1983 location New York isbn 0 345 31816 1 ref The phenomenon was discussed in a chapter of Paul Fussell s 1982 book Class a Guide Through the American Status System. Fussel saw prole drift as a general tendency of the culture towards proletarianization. More recently, some observers have noted a related phenomenon in which luxury goods have been adopted by the lower and working classes. Examples include sales of premium coffee , Burberry UK image problems and revitalisation Burberry clothing or Coach Inc. handbags to lower class people. In the UK, BMW cars particularly the 3 series have seen this phenomenon, in some instances the 3 series outselling more mainstream cars such as the Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Vectra personalised number plate s are another example. Another example in the UK is that of BlackBerry mobile phones these have become increasingly popular with young people after having previously been popular among business people. See also Affluenza Bling Casual subculture Chav Dumbing down Innovator s dilemma Mod subculture References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Prole Drift Category Social classes ... more details
About the World War I bombsight the aircraft instrument for measuring wind speeds drift meter File Drift Sight Mk. I on DH4.jpeg thumb right A Mk. I Drift Sight mounted on the side of an Airco DH.4 . The lever ... set the wind and airspeed. The Drift Sight was a bombsight developed by Harry Wimperis in 1916 for the Royal .... The Drift Sight eliminated the need for a stopwatch to perform this calculation, as on earlier devices, and greatly eased the bomb aimer s workload. The Drift Sight was quickly introduced into RNAS service ... Setting Bomb Sight CSBS started replacing the Drift Sight in 1917, but it remained in widespread use in the US Army Air Service into the 1920s. In US use the Drift Sight is often referred to as the Wimperis ... forces. History Early bombsights Prior to the introduction of the Drift Sight, bombsights were generally ... drift , the sideways motion of the bombs due to wind. This meant the aircraft had to attack their targets ..., and prone to error. Drift Sight In 1916, Henry Wimperis started design of a new bombsight, working in collaboration with Scarff. sfn Goulter 1996 p 27 His Drift Sight included a simple system ... to the bomb line. A rod projecting from the rear of the sight, the drift bar , was set to an estimated ... sights at the front of the bombsight fore and aft, directly setting the bombsight to calculate the drift ... as the drift bar mechanism . Setting the altitude moved the foresight, below the backlights ... known as the Low Height Drift Sight Mk. I . At higher altitudes the indicated airspeed being ... until they lay still over the water. sfn Abbatiello 2006 p 31 Although the Drift Sight was a significant ... on how to use the Drift Sight for cross wind bombing, but this was complex and apparently rarely used. sfn Abbatiello 2006 p 31 In service The Drift Sight was introduced in 1916, and the simplicity ... of the Drift Sight in terms of flying along the wind line, and was already testing his solution, the Course Setting Bomb Sight . The CSBS was only slightly more complex than the Drift Sight to build ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 A drift station is a term used to describe a temporary or semi permanent facility built on an ice floe . During the Cold War the Soviet Union and the United States maintained a number of stations in the Arctic Ocean for research and espionage , the latter of which were often little more than quickly constructed shacks. Extracting personnel from these stations proved difficult and in the case of the United States, employed early versions of the Fulton surface to air recovery system . See also Ice rafting , the transport of various material by ice Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations DEFAULTSORT Drift Station Category History of the Arctic Category Sea ice Category Polar exploration by Russia and the Soviet Union Category Arctic expeditions Geo term stub Arctic stub ... more details
Location map Botswana lat 24.18099214900 long 26.84835504742 caption Location of Oliphants Drift Oliphants Drift is a village in Kgatleng District of Botswana . It is located 85 km north east of Mochudi , close to the border with South Africa . The village has a primary school and a health clinic, and the population was 758 in 2001 census. ref cite web url http www.cso.gov.bw html census dist40.html title Distribution of population by sex by villages and their associated localities 2001 population and housing census accessdate 2008 02 07 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20071124145537 http www.cso.gov.bw html census dist40.html Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2007 11 24 ref References reference Kgatleng District coord 24 10 52 S 26 50 54 E display title botswana geo stub Category Kgatleng District Category Villages in Botswana nl Olifantsdrift ... more details
Infobox lake lake name Drift Reservoir image lake Drift Reservoir 212762678 .jpg caption lake image bathymetry caption bathymetry location Cornwall coords coord 50.1080 5.5910 region GB type waterbody display inline,title type reservoir inflow outflow catchment basin countries United Kingdom length 1 mi 1.6 km width area depth max depth volume residence time shore elevation islands cities Drift Reservoir is a reservoir in Cornwall , UK , just north of Drift, Cornwall Drift village, southwest of Penzance . The reservoir is approximately a mile 1.6 km long. It has a large dam at its southern end, and at the northern end, splits into a northwestern and a northeastern arm. It is currently operated by South West Water . History The reservoir was first given statutory approval in 1938 Under the Penzance Corporation Act 1938 ref Pool, P. A. S. 1974 History of the Borough and Town of Penzance ref but construction was deferred until after World War II and was finally completed by the West Cornwall Water Board in 1960 and has been since this date the principal source of water for the Penwith area. Birdwatching Although generally hosting only small numbers of birds, the reservoir has attracted a considerable number of North American vagrancy in birds vagrant shorebird s and wildfowl , including a number of Lesser Scaup . birdwatching Birdwatchers may use the bird hide , sited overlooking the northwestern arm. References references Cornwall struct stub Category Penwith Category Drinking water reservoirs in England ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Free drift mode refers to a state of Motion 28physics 29 motion engaged by an object in orbit , whereby constant Aircraft attitude attitude is not maintained. When attitude is not maintained, the object is said to be in free drift, thereby relying on its own inertia to avoid attitude drift. This mode is often engaged purposefully as it can be useful when modifying, upgrading, or repairing an object in space, such as the International Space Station ref Malik, 2006. ref . Additionally, it allows work on areas near the thrusters on the ISS that are generally used to maintain attitude ref Malik, 2005. ref . While in free drift it is not possible to fully use the solar arrays on the ISS. This can cause a drop in power generation, requiring the conservation of energy. This may affect many systems that otherwise require a lot of energy ref Bertels, 2006. ref . The amount of time that an object such as the ISS can remain safely in free drift varies depending on moment of intertia, perturbation torques, tidal gradients, etc. The ISS itself generally can last about 45 minutes in this mode. Notes references References Bertels, Gaston. November 10, 2006. http www.rac.ca ariss oindex.htm COMMANDER MICHAEL LOPEZ ALEGRIA TALKS TO BELGIAN SCHOOLCHILDREN . ARISS. Retrieved on April 26, 2006. Malik, Tariq. January 21, 2005. http www.space.com missionlaunches exp10 spacewalk 050121.html ISS Crew Prepares for First Spacewalk . Space.com. Retrieved on April 26, 2008. Malik, Tariq. October 26, 2006. http www.space.com missionlaunches 061026 prog23 docking.html After ISS Docking, Antenna Glitch Delays Russian Cargo Ship Operations . Space.com. Retrieved on April 26, 2008. br space stub Category Celestial mechanics Category Orbits Category Astrological aspects ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2011 Drift Trikes are tricycle s that have slick rear wheels, normally made from a hard plastic material. They are usually ridden on paved road s with a steep downhill gradient and some corners. Smooth roads are preferred to coarse chip seal ed road as coarse surfaces tend to wear rear wheels faster. Riders gather momentum through gravity , although some drift trikes have Bicycle pedal pedal s. Pedals are useful for slow speed riding, but are of no use at high speed. Operating speed for drift trikes is between 25 and 65km h. Operating the trikes at such high speeds can be very dangerous, as there are no Drift Trike specific courses. All of the drifting is done almost entirely on public streets, tailing the designated vehicle. To achieve the desired velocity , a tow line is attached to the trailer hitch of the flagship vehicle and riders all grab on to the line at different sections and then break away at the desired speed. Once up to speed, the differs can perform tricks such as tail whips, fish tails, spin around in circles in a trolley type motion , and even drift on two wheels, leaving one in the air. Trike Drifting is very dangerous, and the possibility of colliding with another drifter or oncoming vehicle is very real. Helmets and full body protection are necessary for safety. The sport is not well known, and is infracting many traffic and safety laws. References See Wikipedia Footnotes on how to create references using ref ref tags which will then appear here automatically Reflist External links Category Tricycles ... more details
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