Alternating current is affected by electrical properties that are not observed under steady state direct current, such as inductance and capacitance.

Alternating seasonal air-mass movements and accompanying winds are moist in summer and dry in winter.

Alternating hands while typing is a desirable trait in a keyboard design, since while one hand is typing a letter, the other hand can get in position to type the next letter.

Alternating GA and hill climbing can improve the efficiency of GA while overcoming the lack of robustness of hill climbing.

Alternating vertical and horizontal polarization is used on satellite communications ( including television satellites ), to allow the satellite to carry two separate transmissions on a given frequency, thus doubling the number of customers a single satellite can serve.

Alternating between typing the login credentials and typing characters somewhere else in the focus window can cause a keylogger to record more information than they need to, although this could easily be filtered out by an attacker.

Alternating in this way, a person can work his way all the way around the tire to fully remove it from the wheel, in order to reach the tube that sits inside.

TRIAC, from Triode for Alternating Current, is a genericized tradename for an electronic component that can conduct current in either direction when it is triggered ( turned on ), and is formally called a bidirectional triode thyristor or bilateral triode thyristor.

* AP, the class of decision problems that can be solved in polynomial time by an Alternating Turing machine

Alternating between films and television, Sterling appeared in several television anthology series during the 1950s, and played film roles in Caged ( 1950 ), Mystery Street ( 1950 ), The Mating Season ( 1951 ), Ace in the Hole ( 1951 ), Flesh and Fury ( 1952 ), The Human Jungle ( 1954 ), and Female on the Beach ( 1955 ).

Alternating current electric motors and transformers may draw several times their normal full-load current when first energized, for a few cycles of the input waveform.

Alternating current is any current that reverses direction repeatedly ; almost always this takes the form of a sine wave.

Alternating current thus pulses back and forth within a conductor without the charge moving any net distance over time.

Alternating wales of red and white knit stitches.

Alternating rows of knit stitches and purl stitches produce what is known as a stockinette pattern.

Alternating succession is also seen in Ireland, where the High Kings of Ireland come from two branches of the Uí Néill, the northern Cenél nEógain and the southern Clann Cholmáin.

Most students have one Alternating Unassigned Time, referred to as AUT, during which students are allowed to go the library and computer labs, seek help from teachers, or, with parental permission, leave campus.

" Ferranti pioneered the use of Alternating Current for the distribution of electrical power in Europe authoring 176 patents on the alternator, high-tension cables, insulation, circuit breakers, transformers and turbines.

Alternating current is normally preferred as its voltage may be easily stepped up by a transformer in order to minimize resistive loss in the conductors used to transmit power over great distances ; another set of transformers is required to step it back down to safer or more usable voltage levels at destination.

At an AIEE meeting on May 16, 1888, Nikola Tesla delivered a lecture entitled A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers, describing the equipment which allowed efficient generation and use of polyphase alternating currents.

Nikola Tesla's Alternating current polyphase system | polyphase generators on display at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition | World's Fair in Chicago.

* Alternating 0s and 1s-A pattern composed of alternating ones and zeroes.

Alternating between two or more plant types provides population stability for the herbivore, while the populations of the plants oscillate.

Alternating current rapidly moves between these two, resulting in medium-penetration welds.

* Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, a particle accelerator that was used in three of the lab's Nobel prizes.

He provided an example of this in his 1889 article, " On Alternating Sounds " A number of linguists at Boas ' time had observed that speakers of some Native American languages pronounced the same word with different sounds indiscriminately.

Alternating between second-person narrative chapters of this story are the remaining ( even ) passages, each of which is a first chapter in ten different novels, of widely varying style, genre, and subject-matter.

Alternating bit protocol ( ABP ) is a simple network protocol operating at the data link layer that retransmits lost or corrupted messages.

Alternating with Loki's insults to him, he says four times that he will use his hammer to knock Loki's head off if he continues.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

The term is often used derogatorily to describe a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment on corporations or selected corporations, and implies that corporations are much less needy of such treatment than the poor.

Wiener worked briefly as a journalist for the Boston Herald, where he wrote a feature story on the poor labor conditions for mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, but he was fired soon afterwards for his reluctance to write favorable articles about a politician the newspaper's owners sought to promote.

The film received favorable reviews but made poor box office revenues, a failure which Hawke has admitted caused him to quit acting for a brief period after the film's release.

Despite his favorable attitude towards the poor, he was himself attacked by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and other socialists for lacking positive aims.

Few if any such critics have anything favorable to say about the illicit drug trade, but they point out that under the current coca eradication policies, poor campesinos bear the brunt of efforts to combat it, while North American and European chemical companies ( which supply chemicals needed in the manufacture of cocaine ) and banks ( which annually launder hundreds of billions of dollars in illegal revenues ) continue to profit from the trade.

Hillman's prospects were poor in New York and he soon set out for Chicago, where a friend and a more favorable job market awaited him.

Reviews of the game were generally not favorable, with many noting that the game's user interface and AI were both poor in comparison to the original Transport Tycoon.

The poor reception of the first issue resulted in a convertible re-issue five months later at the higher interest rate of 4 % and with more favorable tax terms.

As a result of poor quality, continuous decline on in attendance on an annual basis marked with cost issue, Drag Ball 2008 was not well attended nor receive favorable supported by the community.

They found that ICRISAT-improved chickpea varieties have been widely adopted in a poor tribal area in Gujarat, India, with favorable impacts on yields, unit production costs, and net returns per hectare.

Trade offers can be made to any other country, even ones with poor diplomatic relations, although allied nations are more willing to accept more favorable trade offers.

Critics were less favorable towards the film, with most panning the film for its dialog, implausible science, and poor acting.

Australia's The Age gave the film a slightly more favorable review, praising the stunts and special effects, though it noted the effects suffer from poor computer editing and referred to the film as " a little entertaining supertrash " that does require one to not think too much about the science to enjoy.

Even after an incredible amount of advertising, the show was cancelled after only three episodes due to poor ratings and less than favorable reviews.

Active water quality management helps avoid poor pond conditions favorable to the spread of diseases, and instead of using larvae from wild catches, specific pathogen free broodstocks raised in captivity in isolated environments and certified not to carry diseases are used increasingly.